OpenAccess.se, a development programme to support open access (OA) in Sweden organised by the National Library's Department for National Co-operation, has announced a project to launch new OA journals and convert existing TA journals to OA. The project supports the transition of scientific or learned Nordic journals to OA mode, either by supporting the transition of existing journals or the creation of new ones.
The project seeks to provide information and tools for those university-based organisations that serve as publishers for these OA journals, including university libraries and university (electronic) presses. The target results of the project include analysis of significant issues when scientific journals consider and execute a transition to OA publishing, and presentation of such analyses and the ensuing recommendations in written and electronic media; improvements in the computational infrastructure for operating a journal in OA mode, and analysis of its ramifications; creation of a network of stakeholders in OA publishing in the Nordic countries; and strengthening Nordic university libraries and other university units in their publishing.
Organised as six work groups, the project addresses different aspects of the overall topic of the project, like editorial software systems, business models, communication platforms, copyright support, low volume printing and governmental funding policies.
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