Is it possible to change the ways of academic publishing? At least we need to try, says Library Director Wilhelm Widmark when presenting Stockholm University's new publishing platform SU Dynamica at a lunch seminar.
Now you can publish articles open access and have them peer-reviewed in a new publishing platform SU has helped develop.
This semester we offer access to the new search tool Keenious, which is available to all students and employees at Stockholm University.
The highly valued 17th-century book that disappeared from Stockholm University Library several decades ago has now been returned. It was discovered at an auction house in New York last year by a firm that tracks stolen cultural heritage.
Now it will be easier to find the course literature on the shelves, as the library from now on will arrange the books in the course literature collection by author. From having listed books on the course literature shelves in alphabetical order by author or, if there is no author, by title, the library now switches to listing all new books in the course literature collection by creator. It can be an author, editor or an organization. The hope is that it will be easier to find on the shelves if the books are always listed by last name. Books that are already in the collection and listed by title will continue to be, but are relabeled when the title is purchased in a newer edition. All editions of a title will therefore always be in the same place, regardless of edition.
Measurement data from Swedish glaciers can be of great importance for the knowledge about climate change. But sharing research data openly is not given – despite the benefits it can bring. Listen to the researchers who have chosen to work openly, in the podcast Bakom Bokhyllan. That research should be made open and accessible is a demand from governments, financiers and scientific publishers worldwide. But what does it mean for researchers to work openly - in practice? And why should they do it? Nina Kirchner is a glaciologist and Director of the Tarfala research station, and John Fitzpatrick is an ethologist and award-winning lecturer at the Department of Zoology at Stockholm University.
The demands on research data and science results to be open access are intensified. But how does it work in practice? During this year's Open Access Week, which runs from 24-30 October, the issue is in focus.
