Togetherness & Work in Progress – Ongoing Author Survey about Scholarly Communication in the HSS in Collaboration with OPERAS

Stockholm University Press is still under development, as it takes time to build a trustworthy brand and fine-tune the processes to serve the academic community with relevant publications. This means that we constantly need to revise our workflows and develop the routines together with researchers from the Editorial Boards and the Publishing Committee. Rigorous peer … More Togetherness & Work in Progress – Ongoing Author Survey about Scholarly Communication in the HSS in Collaboration with OPERAS

Stockholm University Press part of Erasmus Staff Week on Open Science

By Christina Lenz, Managing Editor at Stockholm University Press ‘I’m full of inspiration and I will bring it back to my institution, hoping it will help us to develop Open Science and Open Access in my country. Thank you!’ In September Stockholm University Library hosted an Erasmus Staff Week for Librarians Towards Open Science. Strengthening … More Stockholm University Press part of Erasmus Staff Week on Open Science

Transitioning towards OA: New assignments for the National LIbrary of Sweden, Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing and much more

These articles caught our attention the latest week. Have we missed anything? Please share your comments below. OpenAIRE blog Transitioning towards Open Access: New assignments for the National Library of Sweden OASPA – Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics January focus from … More Transitioning towards OA: New assignments for the National LIbrary of Sweden, Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing and much more

OASPA Membership Criteria, New Developments in Open Access Monographs, News from Creative Commons and much more

These articles caught our attention. Have we missed anything? Please share your comments below. OASPA – Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association New Year, New Form: Steering applicants through OASPA’s criteria Panelists Discuss New Developments in Open Access Monographs for OASPA and Knowledge Exchange Webinar CC – Creative Commons Kicking off the CC Certificates Beta Propose a … More OASPA Membership Criteria, New Developments in Open Access Monographs, News from Creative Commons and much more

About Open Access Negotations With Publishers, Issues in Peer Review and much more

These articles caught our attention this week. Have we missed anything? Please share your comments below. IFLA Reform Copyright, Drive Development: IFLA Speaks for Libraries in Geneva LIBER Europe The Story Behind LIBER’s Five Principles for Open Access Negotiations With Publishers  OpenAIRE BLOG Open Science Workshop Vienna 2017 FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot: results of … More About Open Access Negotations With Publishers, Issues in Peer Review and much more

Developing research data services at libraries

Blogpost by Monica Lassi. This post is part of our series of posts reporting from the RDA 9th Plenary (P9), 3-7 April 2017 in Barcelona. The Research Data Alliance Libraries for Research Data Interest Group Website for this interest group (IG). Detailed notes are available at Google Docs. An interesting bit of information about this … More Developing research data services at libraries

About EU Copyright, Open Access in The Humanities and International Data Week

These articles caught our attention this week. Have we missed anything? Please share your comments below. Liber A Basic Guide to EU Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries, Educational and Research Establishments Research Data Services in Europe’s Academic Research Libraries BookBusiness – Is There a Future for Open Access in the Humanities & Social Sciences? … More About EU Copyright, Open Access in The Humanities and International Data Week

About the International Open Access Week, COASPA, OpenCon 2016 and much more

We want to share the latest news and debates about open access, scholarly publishing and similar topics. These articles caught our attention this week. Have we missed anything? Please share your comments below. SPARC Theme of 2016 International Open Access Week to be “Open in Action” SPARC Supports the Open Government Data Act OASPA – … More About the International Open Access Week, COASPA, OpenCon 2016 and much more

Video presentations from Meeting Place Open Access in Stockholm 2016

As we wrote in April we attended Meeting Place Open Access, at Stockholm University a couple of weeks ago. Meeting Place Open Access (MOA) is the major annual conference in Sweden about open access and scholarly publishing. The National Library of Sweden has now published recorded material from the conference and you can watch the … More Video presentations from Meeting Place Open Access in Stockholm 2016