Open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...

scholarly communication of Norway can be searched via the Norwegian Open Research Archive (NORA). "A national

repository Repository may refer to: Archives and online databases * Content repository, a database with an associated set of data management tools, allowing application-independent access to the content * Disciplinary repository (or subject repository), an ...

consortium, BIBSYS Brage, operates shared electronic publishing system on behalf of 56 institutions." , ,

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway ( Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway a ...

, and

Universitetsforlaget Universitetsforlaget AS (English: "The University Press"), also known in English as Scandinavian University Press, is a Norway, Norwegian academic publishing company, which publishes non-fiction literature and scholarly journal, journals mainly ...

belong to the

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) is a non-profit trade association of open access journal and book publishers. Having started with an exclusive focus on open access journals, it has since expanded its activities to include ...

. Norwegian signatories to the international "Open Access 2020" campaign, launched in 2016, include

CRIStin CRIStin (Current Research Information System in Norway) is the national research information system of Norway, and is owned by the Royal Ministry of Education and Research. CRIStin documents all scholarly publications by Norwegian researchers, an ...

, (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, NIBIO), Norwegian Institute of Palaeography and Historical Philology,

Norwegian University of Science and Technology The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU; ) is a public university, public research university in Norway and the largest in terms of enrollment. The university's headquarters is located in Trondheim (city), Trondheim, with region ...

, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, University of Tromsø,

University of Bergen The University of Bergen () is a public university, public research university in Bergen, Norway. As of 2021, the university had over 4,000 employees and 19,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 1946 consolidating several sci ...

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

, and .

Repositories

There are a number of collections of scholarship in Norway housed in digital

open access repositories An open repository or open-access repository is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such reposito ...

Timeline

Key events in the development of open access in Norway include the following: * 2001 ** 26 November: Norwegian Wikipedia, an open educational resource, begins publication. * 2003 ** Norsk Institutt for Palaeografi og Historisk Filologi signs the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. * 2006 ** Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing begins in

Tromsø Tromsø is a List of towns and cities in Norway, city in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The city is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the administrative centre of Troms county. The city is located on the is ...

. * 2007 ** May: OpenAccess.no website launched. ** 27 June: Ministry of Education and Research State Secretary Lisbet Rugtvedt endorses open access. ** November: National policy adopted "requiring government agencies to provide open access to any geodata they gather or produce." * 2009 **

Research Council of Norway The Research Council (also the Research Council of Norway; ) is a Norwegian government agency that funds research and innovation projects. On behalf of the Government, the Research Council invests NOK 11,7 billion (2022) annually. The Research ...

signs the Berlin Declaration. * 2010 ** CRIStin (Current Research Information System in Norway) launched. (+ vi
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creates fund to cover

author fees An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors. Most commonly, it is involved in making an academic work available as open access (OA), in either a full OA journal or in a hybri ...

. * 2013 ** Research Council of Norway pays for 40 open access journals. ** Norwegian University of Science and Technology creates fund to cover author fees. * 2017 ** Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), a government agency, begins providing "open access to two of its publications: the ''CROP Series in International Poverty Poverty Studies'' and ''Global Challenges - Working Paper Series''." *2019 ** Used title of ''ISSC Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP)''. Transitioned into a new programme of University of Norway and A-XM6956 - International Science Council (ISC).

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