Content and accessibility (WP2)

The purpose of the focus area is to support activities related to generating contents, creating access to research and learning resources, and addressing interaction and task distribution in connection with e-science. The national and digital research libraries will take part in the migration of Nordic scientific publishing through Best Practice within e-publishing and digitisation, and also in strategic collaborations about the use of existing communication platforms such as Google, DOAJ or OAister.

In addition, the programme area aims towards establishing strategic collaborations between Nordic scientific institutions, publishers and researchers about strengthening Nordic scientific publication within vulnerable fields such as humanities and social sciences published in Nordic languages.

Furthermore, the focus area aims to establish strategic initiatives that have their starting point in interaction and task distribution between scientific environments and research libraries in
connection with e-science.

 

Target Results (Deliverables)

The goal is achieved by means of open calls for projects, where the proposed projects must
illustrate and as a minimum establish a demonstrator (proof of concept) in the areas of e-publishing and e-science.

• E-publishing platform and business models
  Result is the establishing of an e-publishing platform comprising the entire workflow of the publishing process, hereunder peer review – a Best Practice model – which can be implemented in several, different publishing environments and supports the preservation activities of the national libraries. Also, the solution should contain alternative business models for Nordic, non-commercial players.
• E-science
  Result is a demonstration project which comprises co-operation between research libraries and scientific environment in a specific field. This field addresses interaction and task distribution in the establishing of structuring and rendering accessible scientific information in the form of raw research data.
• Communication platforms
  Result is a strategic collaboration promoting the visibility of Nordic scientific information in existing international communication services. The activity may for instance be a demonstrator project rendering visible the contents of OA archives based on strategic collaborations about the use of existing communication platforms such as Google, DOAJ or OAister.
• Retro digitization
  Result is digitization of joint Nordic journals, possibly in co-operation with NOP.