Open Access journals published by Norwegian institutions – status and prospects

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/5.6224

Keywords:

Diamond Open Access, Institutional Service Providers, Publishing Landscape, Norway

Abstract

See RECORDING.

More than 70 fully open-access, peer-reviewed journals are currently being published by government-funded service providers at eight Norwegian institutions. The service-providing staff is typically working within a research library, with the editor-in-chief affiliated to the same institution. In autumn 2020, Universities Norway (a cooperative body for accredited universities and university colleges in Norway), commissioned a report on this part of the national publishing landscape. The report was published in June 2021. As representatives of the committee writing the report, we present an overview of the Diamond Open Access publishing landscape in Norway and discuss our recommendations for strengthening the quality and robustness of the institutional service providers (ISPs). In brief, we suggest that the various ISPs merge and establish a board with an executive officer responsible for prioritizing technical upgrades and for establishing common standards and systems of quality assurance. Library staff at the various institutions should however still function as primary contacts for the editors and owners of the various journals, but operate according to clear guidelines and within a multi-institutional collegium.

Author Biographies

Henrik Karlstrøm, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Henrik Karlstrøm is bibliometrician at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in science and technology studies, and is a former editor of an institutionally published scholarly journal.

Per Pippin Aspaas, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Per Pippin Aspaas is head of library research and publishing support at UiT the Arctic University of Norway. He holds a PhD in history of science and is an active researcher within fields such as Latin philology and early-modern intellectual history.

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Published

2021-10-18

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No. 4 (2021): The 16th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing

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