Sweden – Access

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

Open AccessNovember 30, 2023

(Oct 2023) In 2021, the Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions (Sveriges universitets- ochhögskoleförbund, SUHF) decided to convene a beyond transformative agreements working group(the BTA group) to lay the foundation for further advancing the transition to open access. The group includes researchers, representatives of higher education institutions, funders and negotiators from the Bibsam Consortium. It…

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Sweden passes law For national research misconduct agency

Research SupportJuly 12, 2019

(10 Jul 2019) Sweden has passed a law to create a government agency to investigate research misconduct. On June 18, the Swedish Parliament passed the law to create the Research Misconduct Board, which will become active in January 2020 and oversee cases of misconduct from public higher education institutions, central government agencies, municipalities, county councils,…

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Springer Nature accelerates its transformative journey with the signing of landmark pure OA deal

Open Access, PublishersJune 29, 2019

(27 June 2019) New agreements agreed this week with the Bibsam consortium in Sweden and Norway’s Unit consortium take the number of Springer Nature’s read and publish deals to ten, putting the publisher firmly on the path to becoming a transformative publisher. In a first for Springer Nature, Bibsam, representing the institutional libraries, and four of…

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The Bibsam consortium in Sweden signs a “Read and Publish” pilot program agreement with AIP Publishing

Open Access, PublishersJune 18, 2019

(14 June 2019) AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, is pleased to announce that the Bibsam Consortium in Sweden has signed an agreement to participate in AIP Publishing’s “Read and Publish” pilot program. Bibsam is the first research library consortium to join the pilot. The pilot, which will run until the…

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Cambridge University Press signs major open access deal in Sweden

Libraries, Open AccessNovember 30, 2018

(28 November 2018) Cambridge University Press has reached a major open access deal with higher education and research institutions in Sweden. The three-year ‘read and publish’ deal has been agreed with Bibsam – a consortium of 85 higher education and research institutions, led by the National Library of Sweden. Read and publish deals pay for…

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