COPIM Project Country Webpage - Norway · Academic Libraries and Open Access Books in Europe a Landscape Study.pdf

Abstract

An overview of Norway from the perspective of open access books and the policy environment for them. "Key findings • Research libraries in Norway are part of independent units -universities and research centres - with their own institutional policies • The UNIT consortium represents research libraries in licence negotiations with publishers • National OA guidelines exclude monographs • Sources of funding for OA books are available on an institutional level • No library/scholar-led OA book publishing initiatives (small output of monographs) were identified • Libraries rely on common catalogue offered by UNIT (Alma) for OA book coverage"