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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">[Apologies for cross-posting]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Welcome to the December 2011<i>
</i>issue<i> </i>of <i>ScieCom info. Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication.
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">News:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Oslo University, Norway, has adopted an OA-policy. All personnel employed after 1 January 2012
<i>shall </i>deposit a post-print version of scientific articles created in the course of their duties in the university institutional repository .Se
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Charlotte B¸rdes article
<a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5334/4704">
below</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">UK White Paper <a href="http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/innovation/docs/i/11-1387-innovation-and-research-strategy-for-growth.pdf">
“Innovation and Research Strategy for Growth</a><i> </i>commits the Government to require OA to all outputs from publicly funded research. Read more in our
<a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5339">NEWS Section</a>.<i>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Our
<i>“Open Minds” series</i> presents interviews from Lithuania and Sweden.</span><i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Our editor in Lithuania
<a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5333/4703">
Meile Kretaviciene</a> has interviewed the Lithuanian publisher</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#333333">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Eleonora Dagienë, Chair of Council of The Lithuanian Association of Scholar Periodicals, about her views and experiences of Open Access.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Eleonora Dagien<span style="color:#333333">ë appreciates open access and believes that it
</span>gives greater opportunities for Lithuanian journals. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5335/4708">Yvonne Hultman Özek</a> has interviewed Mattias Collin,
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">at the Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Sweden. He began advocating OA when he became more and more frustrated by having to pay high page charges despite giving up the
copyright to his own work. He has seen the attitudes to OA change from very sceptical to positive,and believes that OA will be the future standard.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In
<i>“Open Access policy at the University of Oslo”</i> <a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5334/4704">
Charlotte B¸rde</a><u>, </u>Senior Legal Adviser at the University of Oslo, illustrates the political background and the legal aspects of the Open Access policy adopted by
<i>the </i>Board of the University of Oslo University in December. The author presents the policy itself and the institutional process leading up to it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In
<i>“Strategic Publishing Rules – a Manual for Researchers” </i><a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5337/4707">Peter Linde and Håkan Grahn</a> at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, describe how they try to handle<i>
</i>the conflict between the research assessment system with its emphasis on publishing in ISI-ranked journals and the demands for OA-publishing.
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <span style="color:black"><a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5336/4711">Stina Johansson</a>,</span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Chalmers Library, Gothenburg, Sweden, presents
<i>“The Geography of Scienc</i>e – <i>an example from Chalmers”.</i> The Chalmers Library participates in the ongoing research assessment of the eight Areas of Advance at Chalmers, and the bibliometricians have studied the collaboration patterns of the Chalmers
researchers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">In </span><span lang="EN-US">“Talking about open Access”
<span style="color:black"><a href="http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/article/view/5332/4709">Anne Sandfaer</a>
</span>at the Danish Agency for Libraries and Media, presents Knowledge Exchange , the partnership between DEFF in Denmark, JISC in the UK, DFG in Germany, and the SURFfoundation in Holland. This partnership has now launched a website for OA success stories,
coming from researchers, editors, publishers or anybody involved in the distribution of research results.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">We hope that you will have a god read. Your comments and ideas are very welcome<br>
Ingegerd Rabow<br>
Editor-in-chief<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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