Open Access

Open Access

Open Access' main objective is making reserach publications available on-line, free of charge.  The author will always hold the copyright to the material, but the users will normaly have the right to read, search, save, copy, cite or redistribute the text.

 

There are two main roads to Open Access:

  • Open institutional archives - archiving of already published research material in Open Access archives
  • Open Access-publishing - publishing of original material in Open Access journals

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BORA-NHH

BORA-NHH

Bergen Open Research Archive / BORA is an open institutional archive.  Articles available through BORA are considered a supplement to journal publishing.

 

BORA was established to help promote archiving and distribution of research done locally. All employees at NHH, the University of Bergen, Bergen University College and CMI, are encouraged to make their publications available through BORA.

Why use BORA-NHH?

Why use BORA-NHH?

  • Articles that are freely available are more often cited than articles published only in commercial journals.
  • Material archived in BORA-NHH will receive permanent URLs, thus making them available also in the future
  • Research from the Bergen-area will be available from a common web-interface
  • BORA-NHH, together with open institutional archives from other Norwegian reserach-institutions are accessible from a common web-interface - Norwegian Open Research Archive (NORA)
  • Material archived in BORA-NHH is also indexed by search engines as Google, Bing, Yahoo and others

For researchers

For students

Copyright

Copyright

Publications archived in BORA-NHH are subdued the Norwegian intellectual achievement legislation.  Publications will be made accessible only as long as there is an egreement between BORA-NHH and the author/departement

Sherpa/Romeo

Sherpa/Romeo

In 2002, British government established the SHERPA/ROMEO-database which displays an overview of the publishers' policies concerning self-archiving of published texts.  More than 90% of the publishers accept institutional open access-archiving in some form or other.

BOAP

BOAP

Bergen Open Access Publishing (BOAP) is a project at the University of Bergen.  The goal of the project is establishing an infrastrucure for open electronic publishing at the research institutions in Bergen.  The service is offered also to NHH, Bergen University College and CMI.

 

All new publication-projects at the institutions are welcome.