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Universities Collaborate to Develop Diamond Open Access Publishing

Diamond publishing is an alternative format that has no paywalls.

Author rights to their publications

Bibsam is exploring alternatives to its reliance on hybrid publishing.

The library hosts a publishing platform

On the Open Journal System (OJS) platform, journals are published as open access.

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New direction for agreements with academic publishers

The Bibsam Consortium place greater emphasis on fully open access journals.

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How to create a data management plan: New online course

The library has created an online course on how to develop a data management plan.

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Fewer books in Legimus - risk of course literature being unavailable

The Swedish Agency for Accessible Media will no longer produce all course books as audiobooks.

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Conference on examination attracted hundreds of participants
Published: 2023-11-22

Umeå university took the lead in discussing examination in higher education

A new stack for scholarly journals has opened
Published: 2023-11-21

After refurbishment, a new stack for scholarly journals has opened at the University Library.

Group study rooms and resource room at the Arts Campus
Published: 2023-02-20

There is now space for both group study rooms and a resource room at the library at Arts Campus.

Umeå university joins CoARA
Published: 2022-12-13

An commitment to reform research evaluation and reward systems.

New coalition for advancing research assessment
Published: 2022-11-22

Collaboration to reform assessment and reward systems for research, in line with the open science reform.

The Swedish Research Council updates its open access guidelines
Published: 2022-10-31

The Swedish Research Council has updated guidelines for research funding as of October 2022.

The university library and HPC2N contribute to Skills4EOSC
Published: 2022-10-13

Umeå University Library and HPC2N collaborate in Skills4EOSC to support networks and training in the EU.

Increased immediate open access to federally funded US research
Published: 2022-09-08

New recommendations in the US aim for immediate open access to all federally funded research results by 2026.

Open online-course in information search
Published: 2022-09-06

Umeå University Library has an open online-course in information search.

Publishing with MDPI
Published: 2022-06-16

Before publishing in one of MDPI's journals, you are advised to do a critical review of the journal.

A Swedish action plan for open science is underway within SUHF
Published: 2022-04-29

The action plan aims to complement and concretise SUHF's roadmap for open science.

Guidance for writing a data management plan
Published: 2022-04-08

There is now a guide (in Swedish) from the Swedish Research Council to help you write a data management plan.

New premises for the University Library at the Arts Campus
Published: 2022-03-17

The relocation of the University Library at the Arts Campus will create four times more space.

KB and VR release reports on open science
Published: 2022-03-15

KB and VR have released reports on the national development toward open science.

New European collaboration for open science training
Published: 2022-02-03

Umeå University is one of four Swedish organisations involved in the new European collaboration Skills4EOSC.