Workshop 2007

Nordbib was organizer of a policymaking workshop on Open Access, 23 and 24 April 2007, which took place at hotel Marienlyst in Elsinore, Denmark. The workshop was held at a strategic level where invited key persons from relevant organisations and institutions were engaged in the discussions on dissemination strategies and policy within scholarly communication and Open Access.

In connection with this workshop a satellite workshop was arranged in cooperation with the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NOP-HS) concerning e-publishing on a practical level through showcases, best practice and business models.

Nordbib had invited key persons from the 5 Nordic countries representing the ministries, research councils, universities and research institutes and libraries as well as researcher and scholarly societies, academies and university publishers.

The aim of the workshop was to create understanding and dialogue concerning essential issues as quality assurance, copyright issues, strategies and policies for scholarly publishing and thereby put Open Access on the political agenda.

The programme was based on the results of an analysis of the Open Access situation in the Nordic countries. Key issues and results from the analysis formed the agenda for the discussions on the workshop in the means of creating recommendations for further actions nationally on strategic and political level. The state-of-the-art report was published begin July after including the recommendations both from the analysis and the workshop discussions.

Responsibility:
Nordbib programme group 
NOP-HS
The two consultants for the state-of-the-art report
In cooperation with the Nordbib programme manager