Open access in Denmark

Open access to scholarly communication in Denmark has grown rapidly since the 1990s. As in other countries in general, open access publishing is less expensive than traditional, paper-based, pre-Internet publishing.

Repositories and platforms

There are a number of collections of scholarship in Denmark housed in digital open access repositories. They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read. The consortial Scandinavian hprints repository began operating in 2008, specializing in arts, humanities, and social sciences content. In 2017, Aarhus University launched an open science platform, SPOMAN.

Policy

Leaders of the Copenhagen Business School voted in June 2009 to adopt an open access mandate, the first of its kind in Denmark.

In 2012 Denmark's main public funders of research began requiring that grantees deposit articles into open access digital repositories. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Research created a national policy requiring open access for all publicly funded research published after 2020.

See also

• Nordbib, a funding programme to aid and develop open access initiatives within the academic field in the Nordic countries
• Publishing companies of Denmark
• Internet in Denmark
• Education in Denmark
• Media of Denmark
• Copyright law of the European Union
• Open access in other countries

Further reading

in English

• Bertil Dorch [in Danish]; Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (2008). . ScieCom Info: Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication. 4. ISSN .
• John Houghton (2009), , Knowledge Exchange
• John Houghton; Alma Swan; Sheridan Brown (2011), (PDF), ISBN 978-87-923-7287-1, Report to The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation (FI) and Denmark's Electronic Research Library (DEFF)
• (PDF), Ministry of Higher Education and Science, 2014
• CRIStin (2015), Education, Research and Open Access in Denmark, PASTEUR4OA Case Study, doi:
• Eelco Ferwerda; Frances Pinter; Niels Stern (2017), "Country Study: Denmark", Landscape Study on Open Access and Monographs: Policies, Funding and Publishing in Eight European Countries, Knowledge Exchange, doi:
• Walt Crawford (2018). "Denmark". . US: Cites & Insights Books.

in other languages

• [Recommendations for implementing Open Access in Denmark, Final report: from the Open Access Committee] (PDF) (in Danish), Danmarks Elektroniske Fag- og Forskningsbibliotek, 2011
• [Open Access Policy for Public Research Councils and Funds] (PDF) (in Danish), Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriet, 2012
• Sivertsen, G. and Larsen, B. (2012), [Dissemination of research in Danish journals: on the possibility of free access to scientific articles] (PDF) (in Norwegian), NIFU, ISBN 978-82-7218-843-5{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Sofie Carsten Nielsen (2014). . Revy (in Danish). Danske Fag-, Forsknings- og Uddannelsesbiblioteker. ISSN .

External links

• . Global Open Access Portal. UNESCO.
• Peter Suber (ed.). . Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC . News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research
• . ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. UK: University of Southampton.
• , part of Open Knowledge International
• (in English and Danish), Copenhagen: Ministry of Higher Education and Science
• . Sparceurope.org. SPARC Europe. Archived from on 2020-03-10. Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition