Open access scholarly communication of Norway can be searched via the Norwegian Open Research Archive (NORA). "A national repository consortium, BIBSYS Brage, operates shared electronic publishing system on behalf of 56 institutions." Cappelen Damm Akademisk[no], Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing[no], University of Tromsø, and Universitetsforlaget belong to the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. Norwegian signatories to the international "Open Access 2020" campaign, launched in 2016, include CRIStin, Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi[no] (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, NIBIO), Norwegian Institute of Palaeography and Historical Philology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, University of Tromsø, University of Bergen, University of Oslo, and Wikimedia Norge[no].

Repositories

There are a number of collections of scholarship in Norway housed in digital open access repositories.

Timeline

Key events in the development of open access in Norway include the following:

  • 2001 26 November: Norwegian Wikipedia, an open educational resource, begins publication.
  • 2003 Norsk Institutt for Palaeografi og Historisk Filologi signs the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
  • 2006 Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing begins in Tromsø.
  • 2007 May: OpenAccess.no website launched. 27 June: Ministry of Education and Research State Secretary Lisbet Rugtvedt endorses open access. November: National policy adopted "requiring government agencies to provide open access to any geodata they gather or produce."
  • 2009 Research Council of Norway signs the Berlin Declaration.
  • 2010 CRIStin (Current Research Information System in Norway) launched.
  • 2011 18 February: University of Tromsø creates fund to cover author fees.
  • 2013 Research Council of Norway pays for 40 open access journals. Norwegian University of Science and Technology creates fund to cover author fees.
  • 2017 Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), a government agency, begins providing "open access to two of its publications: the CROP Series in International Poverty Poverty Studies and Global Challenges - Working Paper Series."
  • 2019 Used title of ISSC Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP). Transitioned into a new programme of University of Norway and A-XM6956 - International Science Council (ISC).

Notes

Further reading

  • Aneta Laskowska; Karen Marie Øvern; Klaus J. Tollan (eds.), (in Norwegian) – via Blogspot. 2007-2011
  • (PDF), Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions, 2009, archived from (PDF) on 2013-05-13
  • Boavida, Clara; Serafinavičiūtė, Brigita (2015), Institutional Policy Implementation at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, PASTEUR4OA Case Study, doi:
  • Eelco Ferwerda; Frances Pinter; Niels Stern (2017), "Country Study: Norway", Landscape Study on Open Access and Monographs: Policies, Funding and Publishing in Eight European Countries, Knowledge Exchange, doi:
  • Walt Crawford (2018). "Norway". . US: Cites & Insights Books.

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