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</font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;" lang="EN-GB">Free access to
polar research</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Polar Research<i>,
the respected international peer-reviewed journal of the Norwegian Polar
Institute, will become an open-access journal starting January 1<sup>st</sup>
2011. Now readers around the world will have free access to the latest scientific
articles on climate, biodiversity, polar history and other diverse topics that
are investigated in the polar regions. </i></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Aiming <span style="color: black;">to promote the
exchange of scientific knowledge about the Arctic and Antarctic across
disciplinary boundaries, <i>Polar Research</i>
has served an international community of researchers since 1982. </span>As part
of the journal’s transition, <i>Polar
Research</i> is moving to the specialized open-access publisher, Co-Action
Publishing.<i><span style="color: black;">
Polar Research</span></i> will continue to be edited by Helle V. Goldman of the
Norwegian Polar Institute and an international board of Subject Editors, with
support from an international Editorial Advisory Panel.</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><i><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></i><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">“This is a bold leap forward for us”, says the
journal’s Chief Editor, Helle V. Goldman.<i>
</i>“As an open-access journal <i>Polar
Research</i> will be immediately and freely accessible to readers around the
globe that are connected to the Internet. This is a very favourable development
for contributors and readers alike and I look forward to seeing how the change
will help us better serve the polar scientific community. To my knowledge <i>Polar Research</i> is the first of the
scientific polar journals to go completely open access.”<span> </span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Publishing in <i>Polar
Research </i>will not entail author fees, and there will be no charges for
colour illustrations or multi-media supplemental material. The journal will be
published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, allowing
authors to distribute and post the final version of their work for any
non-commercial purpose, under the condition that the original source is
credited. As such, p<span style="color: black;">ublishing in <i>Polar Research</i> will make it convenient for contributors and their
institutions to comply with mandates on open access to publicly funded
research. At the same time, authors will benefit from the same rigorous
standards of peer review and the same high quality of editorial service for
which the journal is known.</span></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Polar Research
</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">will be available in an electronic edition
only. <span style="color: black;">This will make the journal much ‘greener’ and
is also in keeping with current reading patterns among scientists, who<span> </span>skim article titles and abstracts on <span> </span>the Internet to determine what they need to
read. </span><i>Polar Research</i> will
continue to publish ‘special issues’, now in the form of thematic clusters. The
journal’s archive will be available through the new website as well as through
the former publisher’s platform.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The new URL for the journal as of January 1<sup>st</sup>
2011 is </span><a href="http://www.polarresearch.net/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">www.polarresearch.net</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> .</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">The Norwegian Polar Institute
(</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span><a href="http://www.npolar.no" target="_blank">www.npolar.no</a></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">)</span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">
is Norway’s central institution for research, environmental monitoring and
mapping of the polar regions. The Institute is the Norwegian authorities’
adviser and supplier of knowledge regarding the Norwegian polar areas, and
contributes to the best possible administration of these areas.<span> </span></span></font></p>
<p><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Co-Action Publishing (</span><a href="http://www.co-action.net/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">www.co-action.net</span></a><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">) is an international
open-access scholarly publisher, with a growing portfolio of peer-reviewed
scholarly journals spanning different scientific disciplines. The company is
registered as a limited liability company in Sweden, and is wholly-owned by the
three founding partners. </span></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Gunn Sissel Jaklin</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Communications Director</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Norwegian Polar Institute</font></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Tel. +47 77 75 06 40</font></span></p>
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