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The September issue of ScieCom info. Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific

Communication

BREAKING NEWS!
The Danish Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Charlotte Sahl-Madsen, is
prepared to introduce a policy of Open Access to publicly funded research.
Read more in the news item by Adrian Price:
Danish Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation goes in for Green Open Access

The Swedish Ministry of Education and Research comments:

“The Swedish Government announced last year that they will work on a national Open
Access policy for Sweden in 2010. Further information on this will be presented in
November.”
Katarina Bjelke, Ministry of Education and Research, Sweden.

ARTICLES
Erik Sandewall discusses the problem of managing “moral copyright” for evolving
publications, i.e. works that with modern technology easily can be amended and extended
over time. The author has a solution to propose and is preparing an experimental
implementation.
Erik Sandewall: Exercising moral Copyright for Evolving Publications

Jan Erik Frantsvåg describes the Norwegian RoMEO project. There is little or no
information about numerous Norwegian journals, serials and publishers in the
international Sherpa/RoMEO service operated by the University of Nottingham. The
project found a local collection to be of limited usefulness. Success depends on the
incorporation of Norwegian journal and publisher information into the Sherpa/RoMEO
service.
Jan Erik Frantsvåg: A Norwegian RoMEO

“Open Educational Resources – a resource for learning” describes a current national

project for promoting the use of open educational resources among HE teachers in
Sweden, and making them interested both in using other teachers’ material and in making
their own materials freely available. A number of social media will be used to inspire a
continuous discussion of OER.
Alastair Creelman, Åsa Forsberg: Open Educational Resources – a resource for learning

The Swedish National Library 4-year OpenAccess.se development programme ended last
year with an international evaluation. This has led to a new start for the programme,
which has become permanent, and starts from a new level with a broader perspective. Its
three main areas are now: OA-policy, OA information to researchers, and development of
infrastructure and user services.
Jan Hagerlid: A new start for OpenAccess.se
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The 14th International Conference on Electronic Publishing – ELPUB 2010 took place in
Helsinki 16 – 18 June 2010. The conference was hosted by Hanken School of Economics.
More than 30 papers and short communications addressed the issues of electronic
publishing and social networks; scholarly publishing models; and technological
convergence, all chosen as themes for the conference.
Turid Hedlund: ELPUB 2010 – Publishing in the Networked world: Transforming the
Nature of Communication

The EIFL General Assembly 2010, which was held on August 6th - 8th in Lund/Sweden,
put this year’s main focus on Open Access Policies and Publishing as well as on EIFL
programmes, e.g.”Copyright for Librarians”, and offered the valuable possibility of
meeting publishers and exchanging ideas and information through”speed dating”.
Librarians from almost all of the 48 EIFL member countries in Africa, Asia or Europe
seized the opportunity and came to Lund
Dina Heegen: The Open Access Situation in Developing and Transition Countries:A
Report from the EIFL General Assembly 2010/Lund