Welcome to the December 2012 issue of ScieCom info. Nordic - Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication.

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NEWS

Two new publication funds established in Norway during the last few days. More info here.

DOAJ: New agreement regarding management of the Directory of Open Access Journals.

DOAJ: Lars Bjørnshauge Managing Director of the Directory of Open Access Journals. More info here.

COMING EVENTS

Book the date for Mötesplats Open Access  (Meeting Place Open Access) 17-18  April 2013 at the School of Business, Gothenburg University.

The 17th International Conference on Electronic Publishing -  “Mining the Digital Information Networks” will be held June 13-14, 2013 at  Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden. The main theme will be extracting and processing data from the vast wealth of digital publishing and the ways to use and reuse this information in innovative social contexts in a sustainable way

ARTICLES

In this last issue for 2012 we start with the recent positive OA-developments in Sweden and concludes with an international perspective on what stakeholders have to do to realize the potential of OA. These two overviews are complemented by a report on recent trends presented at the recent 7th Munin conference in Tromsø, and two articles discussing the important problems of author identification

• Ulf Kronman: “Open Access in Sweden - going from why to how“  The author is coordinator of the programme OpenAccess.se at the National Library of Sweden. He looks at the remarkable international advances toward OA during 2012. His perspective includes the recent Swedish governmental research bill, commissioning the Swedish Research Council to coordinate the conditions for OA to research results and data among the Swedish research funders in cooperation with the Swedish Association for Higher Education and the National Library of Sweden

• Gudmundur A. Thorisson:“ Persistent, unique identifiers for authors – ORCID and smaller publishers”  The author belongs to the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Iceland and has been involved with the ORCID project for three years. He describes the  recent launch of its central registry service for scholarly authors and contributors. This service makes it possible for  researchers to obtain a unique, persistent personal identifier and to maintain a centralized record of their published works, grants and other scholarly activities. He discusses what this means for small, independent journal operations like ScieCom.

• Adrian Price: “Author identification in Denmark: ORCID and repositories“  The author comes from The Faculty of Life Sciences Library at the University of Copenhagen and he takes the ORCID project to Denmark.  All Danish universities register their research publications  in their local Pure-repositories. The quality of the registered data is important, and a central issue is the correct identification of a researcher, his/her  organisation and  publications. How can ORCID solve this problem?

• Emma Margret Skåden: ”The 7th Annual Munin Conference on Scientific Publishing 2012 – New Trends.” The author is Adviser at the University Library in Tromsø, Norway and her report from their annual Munin conference on scholarly and scientific publishing gives an overview of what is happening in this field.  The focus of this year was new trends in scholarly publishing. For the first time a publisher session was organized.

• Lars Bjørnshauge: “What it takes for the stakeholders involved to facilitate the full potential of open access to unfold!.” As SPARC´s Director of European Library Relations and recently appointed Managing Director  of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  Lars Bjørnshauge – as Ulf Kronman – points out the growing acceptance of OA among important national and supranational stakeholders. But eve if they realize the importance of OA for both research and society, they falter when it comes to implementation and its problem.  According to the author, the reason for all these  vacillations in spite of signing declarations  is that research is financed but publishing is not. The research community has outsourced the publishing of results to a market  lacking competition.

We hope that you will have a god read.
Your comments and ideas are always most welcome

Happy Holidays!

Ingegerd Rabow Editor-in-chief ScieCom info