28/11/2019
« The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and open science. (…) »
28/06/2019
« Springer Nature and the Unit consortium in Norway have agreed in principle a transformative read and publish deal for 2020- 2022. This will allow researchers in Norway to read articles in journals on SpringerLink and Norwegian authors to publish Open Access (OA) in all of Springer Nature’s Open Choice portfolio…
23/04/2019
« The Norwegian consortium for higher education and research and Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, today agreed to a pilot national license, providing Norwegian researchers with access to global academic research while making Norwegian research accessible through open access publishing. The…
26/03/2019
« Norway does not have a deal with the publisher Elsevier anymore and follows in Sweden and Germany’s footsteps. But why didn’t Norway renew their deal? And how will the Norwegian institutions and libraries cope with a future without the largest publisher of academic literature? Also, what does the newly signed…
15/03/2019
« John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWA)(NYSE:JWB), a global leader in research and education, and Unit – The Norwegian Directorate for ICT and Joint Services in Higher Education and Research – today announced a combined open access and subscription agreement effective March 14, 2019. (…) »
14/03/2019
« Après la l’Université de Californie**, le 28 février dernier, c’est au tour de la Norvège, le mardi 13 mars 2019 de dénoncer les accords avec Elsevier, pour des raisons très semblables. (…) »
13/03/2019
« The offer from Elsevier is a long way from fulfilling the Norwegian requirements for open access to research articles. There is also no movement in transitioning the agreement from paying to read to paying for open publishing. The agreement with Elsevier will therefore not be renewed for 2019. The rectorates…
22/01/2018
« Better access to research data enhances the quality of research and offers many benefits for business and society at large. Starting in 2018, all Research Council-funded projects that generate data will as a general rule need to have a data management plan.
“Our goal is for research data to…
24/08/2017
« The government’s goal is that all pubclicly funded Norwegian research articles should be made openly available by 2024, and the government has established guidelines and measures for open access to research articles. (…) »
26/07/2017
« The Research Council have conducted an evaluation of the entire field of the humanities. Research and teaching activities are viewed in an overall context, and special focus is placed on the societal impact of the research carried out.
The evaluation of humanities research in Norway started in autumn 2015 and…