Monographs and Open Access | Svensson | ScieCom Info
abernard102@gmail.com 2013-03-22
Summary:
Use the link to access the full text article from the journal sciecominfo: Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication. The article opens as follows: "As part of the project 'A Consortium Approach to OA Monographs in Sweden' we attended the 4th Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP), 19-21 September 2012. Here we will briefly present our project and give a summary of the session on monographs from the conference. Presentations and slides from the conference are available at http://oaspa.org/conference/ Within open access publishing and self-archiving the focus has been mostly on the scientific journal article. In recent years a growing interest in finding ways and business models for making monographs freely available is noticeable, with initiatives as the OAPEN library and the Directory of Open Access Books as perhaps the most visible results. In Sweden scholarly monographs are mainly published by small publishers, more or less specialized on academic monograph publishing or internally at the universities as 'Acta-series' ... The objective of the project is to assess the possibilities for creating a consortium-based approach for OA publishing of academic monographs in Sweden ..."