Commissioned by: The Nordbib programme

• Main Authors: Turid Hedlund, Ingegerd Rabow, Translated Anna Aronsson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Romeo; Iceland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.111.1378; http://nordbib.net.dynamicweb.dk/Files/Filer/Documents for download/Open_Acces_in_the_Nordic_Countries_Hedlund_Rabow_Nordbib.pdf

Finland and Iceland) regarding Open Access in scientific publishing. The present progress report presents comprehensive policy issues when present, as well as initiatives concerning a transfer to a more Open Access publishing policy, such as immediate application of Open Access publishing at various universities or research institutes. Success stories and challenging areas are given in the report and are illustrated with concrete examples. The reports deals with primary Open Access publishing of scientific journals, working paper series and doctoral theses as well as parallel publishing of scientific articles in publication repositories. The role of the publishers will also be examined in connection with questions about agreements. Open Access publishing demands a clear picture of the copyright to material published on the Internet. The report considers the central questions and initiatives to solutions to the copyright problems. SPARC Authors ’ Addendum to publishing agreements with publishers, Creative Commons licences for the distribution of material on the Internet. SURF/JISC Licence to Publish, the SHERPA/RoMEO project which gives information on the attitude of international publishers towards parallel publishing in institutional repositories. Publication practice varies greatly within different science fields, which is one topic that needs