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Call for proposals – Open Repositories Conference 2024

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“OR2024 provides an opportunity to explore and reflect on the ways repositories enable transparent and sustainable information and data. How can we better utilize repositories for empowering global progress? How can we develop the capacity of institutions to implement sustainable open repositories to improve data equity worldwide and support the SDGs? How can the repository community harness AI responsibly to support their goals? 

We particularly welcome proposals aligned to the overall theme, but also on other administrative, organisational, or practical topics related to digital repositories. We are interested in the following sub-themes:

Transparency: Promoting research  transparency
Community: Elevating underrepresented communities
Sustainability : Opening research for climate justice

Submission categories will include posters, workshops, lightning talks, roundtable discussions, papers, and panels. We look forward to the vibrant conversations and learning opportunities of the conference.”

The research funders Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas, and Vinnova have made a strategic decision on a funding model to support publication with publishers that exclusively publish fully open access journals.

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“A large portion of Swedish research is published with immediate open access. However, the output of the major, traditional publishers is still dominated by expensive hybrid journals with a substantial percentage of paywalled articles.

Fully open access publishers present an important alternative to the traditional publishers. These four funders have now agreed, as a first step, to jointly cover publishing costs with open access publishers during 2024 and 2025.

The goal is for as many publishers as possible to be included in this initiative, which will be implemented gradually over the coming years. Negotiations have begun during the fall, and an important part of these agreemens is that all researchers affiliated with any of the organisations participating in the Bibsam Consortium will be covered. In line with the conclusions of the EU’s Council of Ministers, stating that the costs of scholarly publishing should not burden either readers or authors, with this initiative, the funders contribute to promoting an open access publishing system.”

Funders in joint open access initiative – Kungliga biblioteket – Sveriges nationalbibliotek – kb.se

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“The research funders Swedish Research Council, Forte, Formas, and Vinnova have made a strategic decision on a funding model to support publication with publishers that exclusively publish fully open access journals.

 

A large portion of Swedish research is published with immediate open access. However, the output of the major, traditional publishers is still dominated by expensive hybrid journals with a substantial percentage of paywalled articles.

Fully open access publishers present an important alternative to the traditional publishers. These four funders have now agreed, as a first step, to jointly cover publishing costs with open access publishers during 2024 and 2025.

The goal is for as many publishers as possible to be included in this initiative, which will be implemented gradually over the coming years. Negotiations have begun during the fall, and an important part of these agreemens is that all researchers affiliated with any of the organisations participating in the Bibsam Consortium will be covered. In line with the conclusions of the EU’s Council of Ministers, stating that the costs of scholarly publishing should not burden either readers or authors, with this initiative, the funders contribute to promoting an open access publishing system….”

Charting Sweden’s path beyond transformative agreements – analysis and proposals for strategic direction

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“The group contends that it is vital for control of scholarly publication to reside in the research community, while also emphasising the need to reduce publication costs. The group’s primary recommendation, therefore, is that the Bibsam Consortium should refrain from entering read and publish agreements in hybrid journals, beginning in 2026 at the latest. Instead, it should only sign agreements for publication in fully open access journals. For this stance to be feasible during negotiations with publishers and successfully implemented in practice, various complementary and supporting strategic initiatives and actions also need to be carried out. These include: • Signing agreements with publishers that only publish open access journals. • Providing a national independent publishing platform. • Improving the opportunities for migrating researcher-owned journals from traditional publishers to other platforms. • Continuing to work with copyright issues related to open access….”

Open access: Need to move away from transformative agreements – Stockholm University

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“These types of transformative agreements were signed with the hope that the publishers would convert more of their journals to fully open access journals. But that has not happened. The publishers are actively working to obtain income from both subscriptions and publishing, and they therefore see this type of agreement as a long-term solution….”

Open Repositories Conference 2024

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“The annual international Open Repositories (OR) Conference occupies a unique place in the landscape of open knowledge, open source and digital preservation conferences.

Acknowledging institutional interests in the vital role open repositories play in preserving and creating access to scholarly outputs, the OR focus on “how to” rather than “how come” has made it a favourite among librarians, developers and repository managers among others.

OR is the conference where attendees learn about formative techniques and technologies while connecting with people who are solving related issues at their institutions.

OR provides participants with an informal look at current community practices and future repository trends combined with collegial networking opportunities. This dynamic makes this conference the preferred event for people who have on-the-ground responsibilities for stewarding digital resources….”

Open Repositories Conference 2024 – The 19th International Conference on Open Repositories, June 3-6th 2024, Göteborg, Sweden

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“We are very happy to announce the date and venue for the 19th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2024). The conference will be held from June 3-6th at the Clarion Hotel Post, Gothenburg, Sweden.

The conference will be organised by Chalmers Library/Department of communication and learning (CLS) and Chalmers E-Commons/Chalmers Data office.

The theme for OR2024 is: Empowering Global Progress.

The full call for proposals will be released in October 2023….”

Forte supports action plan for diamond open access – Forte (English)

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“The Diamond Action Plan is one of several pieces of the puzzle in the development towards open access for scientific articles, books and journals. It has so far been signed by over two hundred signatories worldwide. Now Forte, as the first Swedish research council, also signs the action plan.

The Diamond Action Plan (DAP) has been developed by the organisations Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS and the French research council ANR. So far, 125 organizations and 145 researchers have signed the plan. Now Forte, as the first Swedish research council, also signs and thereby supports the action plan….” 

The Potential of Research Data: How Research Infrastructures Provide New Opportunities and Benefits for Society

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“The conference will highlight the role of research infrastructures and data in the digital era, and focus on measures that increase access to research infrastructures – and to their data and services – for researchers, businesses and society at large.”

Transformative agreements and their practical impact: a librarian perspective – Insights

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Abstract:  This case study aims at describing how transformative agreements (TAs) have affected our profession with new tasks and workflows at two university libraries in Sweden, namely Karolinska Institutet University Library and Södertörn University Library. TAs are one of the mechanisms by which scientific publications are made open access; they involve moving libraries’ contracts with publishers from payment to read toward payment to publish. We will summarize the status and progress of open access in Sweden, in particular the significant growth of TAs over a short time span. We will then focus on describing how TAs have affected our everyday work and what new tasks they have imposed. We will share our experiences and point out things we find challenging, for example, we will explore questions about eligibility, the verification process, publication types and title changes during the contract period. We will also give some recommendations on how we would prefer the workflows surrounding the TAs to be. Finally, we will share our conclusions and comments about the impact of TAs on the publishing landscape and speculate about what will happen next.

 

We accelerate the transition to Open Science | EOSC Association

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“How to accelerate the transition to Open Science? Join us!

Join us for an upcoming event at the Nordic House in Brussels, on June 12th.

As part of the build-up to the Swedish Presidency conference on “The Potential of Research Data”, the EOSC Association, alongside its esteemed Swedish members, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the Swedish Research Council (VR), will be hosting a remarkable joint session on Accelerating the Transition to Open Science: the possible pathways for impact to accelerate the transition to Open Science as the norm for scientific publishing.

This highly anticipated gathering will take place after work on Monday, 12 June, at 17:30, and is hosted at the EOSC Association headquarters located at Rue du Luxembourg 3 in Brussels….”

Open Science – From Policy to Practice | 16–17 May 2023, Stockholm

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“The “Open Science – From Policy to Practice” conference will highlight different perspectives of shaping, implementing and embedding Open Science. The aim is to exchange knowledge, share best practices and to discuss how Open Science can contribute to strengthening sustainable futures and democracies in and beyond the European Union. The event will take place in Stockholm on 16–17 May 2023 and will be streamed to facilitate online participation. Access to, and sharing of research results and data. The understanding of, and engagement in research. Direct involvement of stakeholders and citizens in the research process. …Join policy makers and other stakeholders from across Europe to discuss ways to embed and transfer Open Science policies into practice at different levels and sectors….”

How to publish in SU Dynamica – YouTube

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“This video is an introduction to the publishing platform SU Dynamica and how to use it, made by PhD Abeni Wickham, founder of Scifree and creator of SU Dynamica.

Read also the article published at Stockholm University Library, which is a summation of a seminar held 14 March, 2023….”

Lunch seminar: The new publishing platform Dynamica – Staff

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“Do you want your research to be published open access, peer-reviewed and shared with others at one place – without charges or middle hands? Join a seminar about Dynamica, a new publishing platform developed by Stockholm University and SciFree, where researchers themselves are in charge of their work.

Open science is practice at Stockholm University, in line with government goals and recommendations from the European Union as well as financiers. Even though a lot of work has been done, with high numbers of articles being published in open access journals, Stockholm University is now taking another step forward towards an even more transparent and economically sustainable system for academic publishing.

What is Dynamica?

In Dynamica, researchers at Stockholm University can publish articles open access with a CC BY license. The articles are peer-reviewed openly in the same platform. The aim is to offer an alternative publishing route instead of via the commercial publishers. Now, the developing team are looking for researchers at Stockholm University who wish to contribute to the development of the platform, by submitting articles and give feedback for improvement….”