[GOAL] Nordic Council of Ministers launches new e-collection Press Release 26 March

[Niels Stern]

PRESS RELEASE 26 MARCH 2014

If you want a Nordic perspective on green growth, welfare, health or the climate, the Nordic Council of Ministers' (NCM) new e-collection - http://norden.diva-portal.org - is a good place to start.

Launched today, the e-collection provides access to some 3,000 Nordic publications free to download.

For example, the 627-page scientific work Nordic Nutrition Recommendations<http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=4&pid=diva2:704251>, the cornerstone of dietary guidelines in the Nordic countries, is due out tomorrow in book form but is already available in the new e-collection as a free download.

Open Access
The new platform for the e-collection has been developed by Uppsala University Library and is based on Open Source software. It complements the Open Access mandate that the NCM has bestowed upon its Secretary General, Dagfinn Høybråten.

The mandate includes a requirement that all publications published and funded by the NCM's Secretariat and institutions will in future be Open Access, i.e. as a minimum available as free downloads.

This step has been taken to improve access to the many hundreds of publications that the NCM publishes every year, and to send a clear signal to the world that we in the Nordic Region support democratic principles such as transparency and equal access for all, in deeds as well as in words.

Facts
The Nordic Council of Ministers is responsible for inter-governmental co-operation in the Nordic Region and has an annual budget of just under DKK 1 billion. As well as its Secretariat in Copenhagen, the NCM has 16 offices and institutions and works with whole host of other organisations.

The portal: http://norden.diva-portal.org
The Open Access mandate: http://www.norden.org/en/publications/open-access/open-access-mandate
Contact: Niels Stern, ns at norden.org<mailto:ns at norden.org>, Tel. +45 21717140



Niels Stern
Head of Unit, Publications

Direct +45 33 96 04 10
ns at norden.org<mailto:ns at norden.org>

Nordic Council of Ministers
Ved Stranden 18
DK-1061 Copenhagen
www.norden.org<http://www.norden.org/>



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