An e-print archive for Nordic arts and humanities
See hprint's web site here.
The final report is finished and can be seen here.
Summary
The purpose of the project is to provide the policy and technical infrastructure necessary to facilitate Open Access and to improve the accessibility and visibility of the arts and humanities research area. Thereby resulting in a number of advantages with respect to the electronic accessibility and visibility of this research area. The initial aim is to make Nordic research available through an Open Access online full text archive. The archive will primarily contain research e-prints in the form of preprints, reprints, working papers, book chapters, conference reports, invited lecture manuscripts etc.
The idea is that authors should be able to submit what they find to be the most relevant of their research to the archive. Other researchers should also be able to readily find and download full text versions of the research that is of the most value to them.
The archive will be set up in such a way that its content may easily be harvested and/or linked to, from both institutional and national repositories and literature databases as well as research websites. Similarly it should be technically possible to submit or harvest copyright cleared full text resources from national repositories into the archive if desired. This may be relevant in the case of Norwegian arts and humanities, where a nation-wide Open Access initiative aims to systematically collect research into a common Norwegian repository - such a situation, however, does not exist in the other Nordic countries - nor in many other countries for that matter.
The project focuses on Nordic research and Nordic research networks, and is aiming at implementing an infrastructure that facilitates accessibility and visibility of research written in Nordic languages. Provided that the Nordic research community takes up the challenge and opportunity given to them through the establishing of the proposed technical infrastructure, in the long run this project has the potential of becoming the basis for an international e-print archive for arts and humanities beyond the Nordic countries - similar in function to the well established arXiv.org.
A final measure of success would be the visibility of the archive's content through other resources, such as e.g. the new Web Citation Index from ISI Thomson that indexes online repositories (including arXiv.org), through Google Scholar, national/institutional repositories and/or repository collections such as OpenDOAR and ROAR.
Project manager
Søren Bertil Fabricius Dorch, Senior Researcher
The Royal Library, The National Library and
Copenhagen University Library
Post box 2149, DK-1016 Copenhagen K, Denmark
Project participants
- Copenhagen University Library, The Royal Library, Denmark
- The Faculty of Humanities, Copenhagen University, Denmark
- The University Library, Oslo University, Norway
- Lund University Library, Lund University, Sweden
- Museum Tusculanum, Denmark
- Research group project parties
i. Kollegium för tvärvetenskaplig forskning (SSKKII),
ii. Institutionen för lingvistik, Göteborg University
iii. Centre for Language Technology, University of Copenhagen
