Open access scholarly communication of Norway can be searched via the Norwegian Open Research Archive (NORA). "A national
repository
Repository may refer to:
Archives and online databases
* Content repository, a database with an associated set of data management tools, allowing application-independent access to the content
* Disciplinary repository (or subject repository), an ...
consortium,
BIBSYS Brage, operates shared electronic publishing system on behalf of 56 institutions." , ,
University of Tromsø
The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...
, and
Universitetsforlaget belong to the
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. Norwegian signatories to the international "Open Access 2020" campaign, launched in 2016, include
CRIStin
CRIStin (Current Research Information System in Norway) is the national research information system of Norway, and is owned by the Royal Ministry of Education and Research. CRIStin documents all scholarly publications by Norwegian researchers, an ...
, (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
Oslo and Akershus University College ( no, Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, abbr. HiOA) was the largest state university college in Norway from its establishment in 2011 until 2018, when it was transformed into Oslo Metropolitan University, the youn ...
, University of Tromsø,
University of Bergen
The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...
,
University of Oslo
The University of Oslo ( no, Universitetet i Oslo; la, Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the highest ranked and oldest university in Norway. It is consistently ranked among the top universit ...
, and .
Repositories
There are a number of collections of scholarship in Norway housed in digital
open access repositories An open repository or open-access repository is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such repositori ...
.
Timeline
Key events in the development of open access in Norway include the following:
* 2001
** 26 November:
Norwegian Wikipedia, an
open educational resource
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials intentionally created and licensed to be free for the end user to own, share, and in most cases, modify. The term "OER" describes publicly accessible materials and r ...
, begins publication.
* 2003
** Norsk Institutt for Palaeografi og Historisk Filologi signs the
.
* 2006
** Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing begins in
Tromsø
Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø.
Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the ...
.
* 2007
** May: OpenAccess.no website launched.
** 27 June:
Ministry of Education and Research State Secretary Lisbet Rugtvedt
Lisbet Rugtvedt (born 3 July 1967) is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party.
Career
She was born in Skien. She finished secondary education in Skien in 1986 and a minor in the history of ideas at the University of Oslo in 1993. She ...
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
The Research Council (also the Research Council of Norway; no, Norges forskningsråd) is a Norwegian government agency that funds research and innovation projects. On behalf of the Government, the Research Council invests NOK 11,9 billion (2021) ...
signs the Berlin Declaration.
* 2010
** CRIStin (Current Research Information System in Norway) launched.
[ (+ vi]
Google Books
* 2011
** 18 February:
University of Tromsø
The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...
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''."
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