Open access in Sweden

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Open access to scholarly communication in Sweden is relatively widespread. In 2010 the Swedish Research Council began requiring its grantees to make research results available in open access form. [1] Lund University Libraries and Stockholm University Press belong to the international Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. [2]

Contents

Content in academic repositories can be found by searching SwePub  [ sv ]. [1] [3]

Repositories

There are a number of collections of scholarship in Sweden housed in digital open access repositories. [4] They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read. Swepub is the national database for scholarly publications in Sweden. Swepub aggregate scholarly output from a number of sources. One of the sources is the Diva-portal.org  [ sv ] platform.

Timeline

Key events in the development of open access in Sweden include the following:[ according to whom? ]

See also

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References

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  2. "Members", Oaspa.org, The Hague: Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, retrieved 7 April 2018
  3. "SwePub" (in English and Swedish). National Library of Sweden . Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  4. "Sweden". Directory of Open Access Repositories . UK: University of Nottingham. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  5. Peter Suber (2012). Open Access. MIT Press. p. 192. ISBN   9780262517638.
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