Open Access in Sweden

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Open Access Repositories

The DRIVER Inventory Study found that there are approximately 19 universities that have digital repositories. According to the Swedish Agency of Higher Education there are 39 Higher Educational Institutes.

The report continues to say that there has been a significant growth in repostories between 2002 and 2005 while the number of repositories publishing e-theses has grown from 13 to 16. Only four repositories publish articles, and two of these in significant numbers of over 500. The focus is mainly on original publishing of material.

Open Access Organisations/Groups

With reference to institutional policies, the DRIVER Inventory Study states that the Swedish Association of Higher Education (SUHF) is an interest organization for Swedish universities and university colleges. It signed the Berlin Declaration in 2004. This has been followed by strong policy statements from the universities of Lund and Stockholm. The Swedish Research Council signed the Berlin Declaration in 2005 and has higlighted Open Access in external communications.

Open Access Projects/Initiatives

Services created on top of the digital repositories: There is a running service to harvest student theses using the OAI-PMH, Uppsök. There is a pilot service to harvest research e-publications from repositories supporting metadata recommendations from the SVEP project (qualified Dublin Core) called Testsök.

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Technical infrastructure and technical issues: Contrbutions to the DRIVER Inventory Study state that in 2000 Uppsala University Library got the financial support from the university to develop a repository software of its own, the DiVA software package. From an early stage it offered other universities the possibility to run their e-publishing on DiVA on the condition that they co-financed the further development of DiVA and certain running costs.

The DiVA consortium today includes 15 Swedish universities and university colleges plus one Nordic participant.

Other universities chose to implement available Open Source software, primarily ePrints, but recently also DSpace. Still others continued to develop their local solutions and in some cases also made these OAI- compliant.

There are at present 7 repositories using GNU EPrints, including three from the same institution (SLU). There are two DSpace installations on the web and two more coming up.

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