A presentation given at the Munin 8th Conference on Scholarly Publishing (Tromsø, Norway) of how the Nordic Council of Ministers is working with Open Access. Both through the development of a new repository service and through the introduction of a OA mandate. Concluding with an invitation to work together in the Nordic Region
The Making of a Mandate. A Regional Approach to Open Access
1. Nordic Council of Ministers
The Making of a Mandate
Niels Stern | Head of Unit, Publications
@sterntweet | ns@norden.org
Munin 8th Conference on Scholarly Publishing, Tromsø, Norway, 25-26 November 2013
3. Nordic Council of Ministers
Nordic Council of Ministers
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Intergovernmental
Organization (IGO)
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Consensus based
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No legislation
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Nordic Utility
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Publishing and funding
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Anno 1971
Financed by the countries
4. Two years ago…
Nordic Council of Ministers
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Great OA activity in all the member countries
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No regional OA collaboration
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No OA activity at the Nordic Council of Ministers
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A need for modernization
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5. Regional opportunities
• Knowledge sharing
• Common events
• Common projects
• Access to the highest political level
• International dialouge
• Awareness and advocacy
• …
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Nordic Council of Ministers
6. Nordic Council of Ministers
Organization (more or less)
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Secretariat in
Copenhagen
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32 institutions and
offices
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34 working
committees
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22 cooperation
partners
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500+ projects
annually
Ministers
Senior
National
Officials
Secretariat
Working
Committees
Institutions
Research
Research
Projects
Research
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7. NCM Open Access project
Nordic Council of Ministers
Repository & Mandate
February
2013
Partners on
board
February
2012
Initial idea
November
2012
Internal go
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March 2013
Project
begins
9. NCM Open Access project
Nordic Council of Ministers
Repository & Mandate
November
2013
March 2013
Project begins
Mandate Phase
1 approved
May 2013
Repository
chosen
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February
2014
Launch of
repository and
mandate
10. Nordic Council of Ministers
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11. Nordic Council of Ministers
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12. Nordic Council of Ministers
Munin 8th Conference on Scholarly Publishing, Tromsø, Norway, 25-26 November 2013
13. Nordic Council of Ministers
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14. Nordic Council of Ministers
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15. Nordic Council of Ministers
NCM Publications
What we publish
What we fund
o Reports
o Articles
o Journals
o Preprints
o Working papers
o Other publications
• Total: 300+ publications
• Total: 1,000+ publications
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16. Repository for the Mandate
Nordic Council of Ministers
• All publications in one place
• Uniformed metadata scheme
• Becoming interoperable
• Longterm archiving
• Modernizing the distribution
• Rationalizing through
common investment
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17. Nordic Council of Ministers
To be launched February 2014
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18. Nordic Council of Ministers
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19. Nordic Council of Ministers
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20. Nordic Council of Ministers
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21. Nordic Council of Ministers
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22. Nordic Council of Ministers
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23. Nordic Council of Ministers
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24. To summarize
Nordic Council of Ministers
• There is an existing Nordic platform for collaboration
• Open Access is on the agenda in the Nordic Council of
Ministers
• There a many practical problems
• There are lots of regional opertunities to be explored
• Let’s enter the next stage through collaboration!
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25. Thank you!
Nordic Council of Ministers
Niels Stern | Head of Unit, Publications
@sterntweet | ns@norden.org
http://econ.st/YGGYAs
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