08/07/2020
« In this paper we summarise the lessons learned from the first Swedish Read & Publish agreement: Springer Compact with Springer Nature (2016-07-01 – 2018-12-31). We set out to put the…
03/04/2020
« The Swedish Bibsam Consortium is taking a leading role in the transition to Open Access and aims to switch from “read-and-publish” agreements to “pure publish” deals after 2024. This next…
10/01/2020
« (…) Bibsam Consortium was among the few early adopters of transformative open access publisher contracts. In its leading position during the transition to open access, it is not surprising that…
29/11/2019
« The Bibsam Consortium is signing a Read & Publish agreement with the scientific publisher Elsevier. This means that Swedish researchers will have access to the publisher’s 2000 journals once more.…
21/01/2019
« Six months have passed since Swedish universities and government agencies cancelled their agreement with Elsevier 30 June 2018. Read more here.
How has the cancellation affected Swedish…
10/10/2018
« Springer Compact was the first Swedish agreement signed with the intent to offset publishing costs with subscription costs. The agreement is a pilot and the Bibsam steering…
02/07/2018
« The money that Stockholm University saves at the cancelled agreement with large science publisher Elsevier will be used to publish research in full Open Access journals. (…) »
16/05/2018
« Large science publisher Elsevier does not meet the requirements of Swedish universities and research institutes
In order to take steps towards the goal of immediate open access by 2026 set…
25/04/2018
« The National Library of Sweden (NLS) has been working on advancing open access (OA) to scholarly output since 2006. In 2017 the NLS received an appropriation directive from the Government…
20/02/2018
« (…) In the Research Bill Knowledge in Collaboration the Government states that open access to research results contributes to maintaining and furthering excellence in research. Open access to research output…