In May Stockholm University Press wrote about data mining and we also mentioned the Hague Declaration considering the copyright law in Europe. The International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) released a press release about the Hague Declaration and shared their statement about copyright, licenses and text and data mining. LIBER recently responded … More LIBER responds to statement on text and data mining

We want to share the latest news and debate about Open Access. These articles caught our attention this week. Have we missed anything? Please share your comments below. Research Information – Open Access Books Slowly On The Rise, says PCG (Publishers Communication Group) Open Science – Is There a Place For Specialized Open Access journals? … More About Open Acess – This caught our attention this week

According to a report written by The Swedish Research Council, Swedish researchers publish more scientific publications compared to researchers in other countries, based on population. Many Swedish researchers are also quoted and in seventh place among 45 countries according to the councils survey. Internationally that is a good placing. Take part of their report here. … More Swedish Research Council: ”Swedish research is internationally competitive”

Date: 29 May 2015, 10.00 AM – 12.00 PM Venue: “Scenen” in Stockholm University Library We have the pleasure to announce the book launch of Richard Begam and James Soderholm’s Platonic Occasions – Dialogues in Literature, Art and Culture This is a joint event, hosted by the Department of English at Stockholm University and Stockholm … More Book Launch – Platonic Occasions Dialogues in Literature, Art and Culture

Data mining (also known as content mining) is the term for the process of collecting and finding connections among large amounts of data, which is only possible with the help of technology and unique search algorithms. Data mining can revolutionize research The hassle about data mining is the copyright law. According to the law we … More Imagine free data mining

SUP participated at the Library Publishing Forum 2015 in Portland Oregon. The theme of the conference were “How can academic libraries create and support sustainable publishing program”. We participated in order to benchmark internationally as well as to get feedback on our recent developments. Research use is the new currency Since SUP is a non-profit … More Stockholm University Press (SUP) and the Library Publishing Forum 2015

When we first started this blog in 2011, we called this the “Researcher Blog”. The goal was to create a meeting point between our researchers at Stockholm University and for them useful resources, news and tools in research. As we have written a lot about Open Access, Creative Commons and scientific publishing and similar the next … More The former Researcher Blog is now known as Stockholm University Press Blog

Digital publishing combined with Open Access publishing turn old marketing strategies on its head. Warren Adler puts the traditional book launch in the context of digital publishing: http://publishingperspectives.com/2014/11/warren-adler-book-launch-aftermath/ Stockholm University Press is currently in production of the first electronic publications (watch this space!) and we are working closely together with our authors and editorial boards to … More Marketing and the digital era

Under rubriken “Biblioteket publicerar!” presenterade Anders Söderbäck Stockholm University Press på fredagen den 26 september i Svensk biblioteksförenings monter. I det stora vimlet av utställare och besökare på mässan förde Anders Söderbäck fram vikten av open access publicering för de biblioteksentusiaster som lyssnade. Stockholm University Press ska likt de stora internationella universitetsförlagen, som Oxford University … More Stockholm University Press på Bokmässan