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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#111111">Welcome to the June 2011 issue of ScieCom info. Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#111111">There has been a lot of international concern about Elsevier’s recently changed Open Access Policy. We can now publish a formal statement made by the Swedish national
OpenAccess.se programme, run by the Swedish National Library to promote OA to research results produced by Swedish researchers. The Steering Committee is deeply concerned about any changes that restrict availability and strongly objects to Elsevier’s new policy.
“<a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5146/4608" target="_blank" title="Statement"><span style="color:#006666">OpenAccess.se Statement: Concern about Elsevier’s Open Access Policy</span></a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#111111">An Open Access Policy has now been adopted by the Karolinska Institute (KI), Stockholm. The Policy will be in effect from July 1, 2011. KI encourages its researchers
to make their publications to the greatest possible extent freely available, taking into account publisher terms and relevant demands of grant-awarding bodies and government authorities. es. Read KI’s Open access Policy<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5146/4608" target="_blank" title="KI Policy"><span style="color:#006666">here</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#111111">The DOAJ team in Lund is happy to announce that the DOAJ site is now available in French. Other languages will follow.<br>
<a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5146/4608" target="_blank" title="DOAJ"><span style="color:#006666">http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5146/4602</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#111111">Will the more mundane communication channels have any roles in scholarly publishing? Will they seriously challenge the old academic publishing traditions? We hope
to inspire lively discussions with the article “<a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5148" target="_blank" title="Bukvova"><span style="color:#006666">Taking new routes: Blogs, Web sites, and Scientific Publishing</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>“by
Helena Bukvova, a researcher and lecturer at the Dresden University of Technology. Helena Bukova presents several new aspects of web usage for researchers.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#111111">We continue to follow the promising OA developments in Denmark. Lise Mikkelsen has earlier reported on the hearing process for the first draft of the “Recommendations
for implementation of Open Access in Denmark”. The final version has now been released. In “<a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5149" target="_blank" title="Mikkelsen"><span style="color:#006666">Central Open Access activities
in Denmark</span></a>” Lise Mikkelsen takes us through the key events related to the final Recommendations, and presents some of the main areas in the Danish Open Access Committee’s final recommendations for implementing a national OA-policy in Denmark.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#111111">“Promote a national open access policy and create the necessary conditions for an efficient implementation of it” is one of the most important goals for the new
strategy recently adopted by the Steering Committee for the Swedish OpenAccess.se programme. The main purpose of the Programme is to help increasing the share of freely available research publications on the Internet. “<a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5150" target="_blank" title="Strategy"><span style="color:#006666">Strategy
for the OpenAccess.se programme 2011-2013</span></a>” was adopted at the Committee’s May 23rd meeting. The new strategy also defines goals for specific areas as well as the means to reach them.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#111111">Jan Erik Frantsvåg has earlier presented, “<a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/4908" target="_blank" title="Frantsvåg"><span style="color:#006666">The
Open Access publication fund at the University of Tromsø</span></a>”. His colleague Leif Longva now reports on “<a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5151" target="_blank" title="Longva"><span style="color:#006666">Doctoral
theses are now submitted electronically at the University of Tromsø</span></a>”. It all started in late 2007, when an electronic submission portal for master theses was introduced. The great success of this portal led them to consider doing the same for doctoral
these. They had been surprised to notice that doctoral candidates were reluctant to include their theses in the Munin open archive. Encouraged by the earlier success the library launched a similar service for doctoral theses.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#111111">We hope that you will have a god read. Your comments and ideas are very welcome<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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