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From: Stevan Harnad <amsciforum_at_GMAIL.COM>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:26:49 -0400

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From: Ingegerd Rabow Ingegerd.Rabow lub.lu.se
Date: Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:43 AM
Subject: Marxch issue of ScieCom info
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Dear Readers,



Welcome to the March issue of ScieCom info. Nordic-Baltic Forum for
Scientific Communication



The important question whether Open Access influences the impact cycle
of publications is discussed by Anders Agerbæk Kjøller Nielsen, an
information specialist at the Faculty of Life Sciences Library at the
University of Copenhagen. He focuses on two factors of OA and
describes how these factors might impact the number of citations,



The “Green road” to Open Access is explored by Sóĺveig
Thorsteinsdottir, Director of the Medical and Health Information
Centre, Landspitali University Hospital, Iceland. She has followed the
development of repositories in the Nordic countries and reports on
existing institutional and funder mandates. She draws parallels to the
international developments and gives an account of the current
situation in Iceland.



In January this year Sweden got its first institutional mandate, when
Chalmers University of Technology adopted a policy requiring Open
Access from their researchers. Maria Kinger at Chalmers University
Library takes us through the preceding years and the library's
engagement in OA and the dissemination of the university's
publications. In her article Maria describes the background processes
leading up to the decision, and the important role of the library in
the management of the repository.



OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe), is a
three-year project funded under the 7th Framework Programme of the
European Commission. The project had its kick-off meeting in Athens on
January 27 in 2010. The overall budget is 4.1 Million Euro. Jan
Hagerlid, Senior Executive Officer - Programme Co-coordinator of
OpenAccess.se at the Swedish National Library, presents the project
and its main goal to support the Open Access pilot, launched by the
European Commission in August 2008. covering about 20% of the FP7
budget.



Business models for Open access are a hot topic.  In December last
year, the Croatia-based Open Access publisher Sciyo in introduced an
interesting and unusual new model - usage-based author royalties.



Sciyo publishes books and journals, and has a standard publishing fee
of EUR 470. Jan Erik Frantsvåg has a background in banking and is now
responsible for IT and Open Access at the University Library in
Tromsö, Norway. He has the ideal background and experience for
analysing this new economic model, and to discuss the potential
implications and complications.



As always, your comments and ideas are very welcome

Ingegerd Rabow / Editor-in-chief
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