Presentation at SPARC Europe's workshop on Making Open the Deafult by Torkel Brekke on 29 June 2016 in Helsinki, Finland

1. National guidelines for open
access in Norway
Presentation SPARC Helsinki 29 June 2016
Torkel Brekke
Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO
University of Oslo
Civita

2. Context and overview
• Mandate, process, background, hearing,
implementation
• Structure of the report
• Guidelines
• Measures and preconditions
• Background

3. Rewards and incentives
• Stimulate open publishing with a factor
in the Norwegian Publication Indicator
• Require institutions to deposit in local or
national repositories in order for articles
to count in performance-based funding
system

4. Technical stuff
• Create national academic repository
• Strengthening register of approved
publication channels
• Norwegian Centre for Research Data or other
gatekeepers against predatory journals?
• Alignment/coordination?
• What about DOAJ?

5. Fostering a culture of academic
responsibility
• Academic freedom is essential
• But so is academic responsibility
• Employees in the public sector, health workers,
teachers, journalists
• Patients, consumers and interest groups
• Small and medium-sized businesses

6. Where to find it
• https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/mottok-
anbefalinger-for-apen-tilgang-til-
forskning/id2504079/
• http://www.cristin.no/english/about/news/2016/nat
ional-guidelines-for-open-access.html
• http://blogs.prio.org/2016/06/open-access-our-
academic-responsibility/