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. Lund University Libraries and Stockholm University Press belong to the international Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. Content in academic repositories can be found by searching SwePub.
Repositories There are a number of collections of scholarship in Sweden housed in digital open access repositories. 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 platform.
Timeline
Key events in the development of open access in Sweden include the following:
2001 May: Swedish Wikipedia begins publication. October: Susning.nu Swedish language wiki begins publication. 2008 February: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences begins policy encouraging deposits in its institutional repository. 2011 March: Malmö University begins requiring deposits in its institutional repository. 2016 November: the Swedish Research Bill establishes that the National Library is responsible for activities concerning open access to scientific publications and that the Swedish Research Council is responsible for work on open access to research data. The two institutions must act in consultation with each other and with other bodies involved.
See also Internet in Sweden Education in Sweden Media of Sweden Open access in other countries People of Sweden Languages of Sweden
References
Further reading Swedish Research Council (2015), Proposal for National Guidelines for Open Access to Scientific Information, ISBN 978-91-7307-263-2, archived from the original on 2015-10-31, retrieved 2018-03-24 Walt Crawford (2018). "Sweden". Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017. US: Cites & Insights Books. Jörgen Eriksson (2018), "Offsetting: no big deal?", Nordic Perspectives on Open Science (1): 1–11, doi:10.7557/11.4430, ISSN 2464-1839 (Case study of Bibsamkonsortiet (Swedish National Consortia)). Lisa Matthias; Jon Tennant (2018), "Uncategorized", Hur gör du din forskning allmänt tillgänglig (open access)? Gratis och lagligt [How to make your research open access? For free and legally] (in Swedish), translated by Lachlan Fetterplace, Figshare, doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.5866785.v2
External links "Coordination of Open Access to Research Publications in Sweden". OpenAccess.se (in English and Swedish). National Library of Sweden. "National Guidelines for Open Access to Scientific Information". Vr.se. Swedish Research Council. Archived from the original on 2018-03-25. Retrieved 2018-03-24. "Sweden". Global Open Access Portal. UNESCO. "Browse by Country". Registry of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Southampton. "Sweden". TagTeam: Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC 1040261573. "Sweden". Directory of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Nottingham. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06. Retrieved 2018-03-24.