Nordbib is a funding programme to aid and develop Open access initiatives within the academic field in the Nordic countries.[1][2] Nordbib is funded by Nordforsk; the advisory and project funding body for the Nordic Council of Ministers on matters of research and research education.[3] Nordbib will run from 2006 to 2009. The organisation is governed by a board with members representing the major university libraries in the five countries as well as a NordForsk representative.[4]
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Neelie Kroes: let's make science open
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Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn and the Vision on European Research and Innovation-2020
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Ladies and Gentlemen, The best thing about the internet is that it is open. In every field, it lets us share and innovate. As Digital Agenda Commissioner, my mantra is to allow and promote that openness everywhere. Whether it's to get the economic and democratic boost of open public data. Or to unlock the cultural wonders of our museums and archives on Europeana. Nowhere is this more appropriate than for science, where openness is essential. That need to share is why scientists have long sought out new tools to spread, examine, and compare knowledge. Remember that the Web itself was invented by physicists at CERN – to share their results. Now, ICT stands to make a huge change through Open Science. We are just beginning to learn how huge. Look at data. Without doubt, science is in the "big data" era, every year producing enough to fill 20 Libraries of Congress. That big data needs big collaboration: so you can collect, combine and conclude from different experiments, in different countries, in different disciplines. That collaboration delivers more efficient, practical and important results than you can get from separate, closed systems. We've seen that in countless fields. That's why high-speed research networks like our own GÉANT already connect millions of researchers, scholars, educators and students. And I want to promote ever better, ever more open infrastructures for collaboration. Open science isn't just about opening up data. It's also about sharing findings. Don't forget that the number one research funder in Europe is the taxpayer. Don't they deserve the largest possible reward from their investment? And shouldn't scientists be able to learn from each other, from others' expertise and others' results? Internet advances make such sharing economically possible. And there's increasing awareness of how much it could help science. Already, the infrastructure to support open access is out there. The thousands of publications in e-Infrastructures like OpenAIRE help researchers, funding bodies and citizens alike. Open access will be built into Horizon 2020, our proposal for tomorrow's EU research and innovation funding. Horizon 2020 will invest in e-infrastructures for open access. It will look at how to incentivise researchers to share. And it will require open access for EU-funded research. All together, it will show the benefits of opening up, for a successful European Research Area. Open Science doesn't mean ignoring economic reality. Of course we need business models to be sustainable. But that doesn't mean we have to carry on doing things the way they've always been done. So, wherever you sit in the value chain, whether you're a researcher or an investor or a policy maker, my message is clear: let's invest in the collaborative tools that let us progress. Let's tear down the walls that keep learning sealed off. And let's make science open.
The history of Nordbib
In 2004, Nordinfo closed after 28 years in operation. This left a vacuum in terms of a formal body for collaboration between Nordic research libraries and the industry of information and knowledge dissemination. Nordforsk asked the NORON group, which consists of the head librarians of the national libraries in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, to propose an alternative. After some negotiations, Nordbib was launched in 2006 with a budget of DKK 10 million. However, it was decided to utilise a strict 40%-60% funding model for projects (i.e. requiring 60% self-financing of funded projects) and so the aggregate worth of Nordbib would approach DKK 22.5 million when leaving room for Nordbib's own overhead.
Nordbib's operationalisation of its subject area
Nordbib was given three major focus areas (named "work packages") vis-a-vis open access to clarify its mission: Policy & Visibility, Content & Accessibility, and Infrastructure & Interoperability respectively.
The organisational structure of Nordbib
The day-to-day operations of Nordbib is carried out by a secretariat presently composed of a general programme manager. The secretariat is housed by Danish Agency for Library and Media. Governing the major decisions of the programme is a board composed of the NORON group (the Nordic national library directors and library agency directors) and a Nordforsk representative. Nordbib is also helped by a working group that counsels and advises on important matters. The programme group consists of a representative from all five Nordic countries as well as a special representative chosen from a large, Nordic research institution.
Funding procedures
Nordbib has made two general calls for projects falling within the scope of its focus areas; the first call in 2007 and the second call in 2008. Standard requirements for projects were broad relevance for promoting and facilitating Open Access as well as participation of institutions from at least three Nordic countries. The last demand was made in order to foster networking and strategic collaboration between Nordic institutions.
Funded projects
One of the effects of the 40%-60% model was that Nordbib generally only received very few speculative applications for grants. In the end, nine projects were funded and a tenth and final one is being negotiated.
| Work package | Projects accepted in 2007 call | Projects accepted in 2008 call |
|---|---|---|
| Policy & Visibility | ScieCom Info - Nordic-Baltic forum for scientific communication[5] | OA-barometer 2009 |
| License to Publish : promoting Open Access and authors' rights in the Nordic social sciences and humanities | ||
| Content & Accessibility | Networks and knowledge dissemination in Nordic Asian study institutions | Networks and knowledge dissemination in Nordic Asian study institutions: phase II[6] |
| An e-print archive for Nordic arts and humanities (hprints) | ||
| Aiding scientific journals towards open access publishing | ||
| Infrastructure & Interoperability | Developing an information environment architecture for the Nordic countries[7] | Identifying and explaining digital objects |
Workshops and reports
Nordbib has arranged two workshops and commissioned two reports.
| Year | Workshop | Report |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Workshop 2007 in Elsinore Denmark, keynote speaker David C Prosser, SPARC Europe "Open Access in Europe" | Report "Open Access in the Nordic countries" by Turid Hedlund & Ingegerd Rabow |
| 2008 | Workshop 2008 in Elsinore Denmark, keynote speaker Ilkka Niiniluoto, University of Helsinki "Research Visibility: Why and How?" | Report "Current Research Information Systems in the Nordic countries - infrastructure, concepts and organization" by Ingegerd Rabow |
Evaluation of Nordbib
In 2009, Nordbib asked consultants Duke & Jordan Ltd. to evaluate the programme with a special emphasis of the structure of the programme. It was concluded in the final report[8] that the structure had worked better in some areas than others. All branches of the tripartite structure received some criticism as did some of the adopted procedures, but overall it was concluded that Nordbib had not only given excellent value for money, it had uncovered and highlighted a special Nordic aspect of Open Access due to similarities in languages and the shared pressures of operating in both small- and dual-language environments, which non-English speaking nations find themselves in. The evaluation report also reflected kindly upon the Nordbib workshops and the Turid Hedlund & Ingegerd Rabow report "Open Access in the Nordic countries".
The future of Nordbib
Based on the evaluation of Nordbib and the challenges ahead with regards to Open Access,[9] Nordbib is applying for a continuation of the programme. The application is backed by a unanimous NORON group.
See also
- Open access in Denmark
- Open access (publishing)
- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
References
- ^ Programme description from the National Library of Iceland
- ^ Hedlund, Turid, and Ingegerd Rabow. 2009. Scholarly publishing and open access in the Nordic countries. Learned Publishing 22(3), 177-186(10).
- ^ NordBib-programmet programme description from Nordforsk (in Norwegian)
- ^ Board members of Nordbib
- ^ Project homepage
- ^ Nordbib grants NIAS LINC DKK 560.000 Archived 2011-06-04 at the Wayback Machine Swedish South Asian Studies Network/Lund University
- ^ Project information from the National Library of Finland
- ^ Nordbib evaluated Press release from Nordbib
- ^ Council Conclusions on scientific information in the digital age: access, dissemination and preservation, Council of the European Union, 2832nd Competitiveness Council meeting, Brussels, 22 and 23 November 2007
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