[Advocacy Advisors] Good news from Sweden on PD-Gov and open access

[Yana Welinder]

This is great news! I haven't had a chance to dig into the proposal, but
this sounds promising: "All scientific publications shall have a Creative
Commons (CC) license."
https://publikationer.vr.se/en/product/proposal-for-national-guidelines-for-open-access-to-scientific-information/

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the update, Stevie!
>
> Sounds great. Let's hope openly available as in cc-by and not as in
> "you're only allowed to look at it through a frame on a hard-to-find
> website".
>
> Dimi
>
> 2015-02-18 11:20 GMT+01:00 Stevie Benton <stevie.benton at wikimedia.org.uk>:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> The Swedish Research Council has just proposed new guidelines on open
>> access. To quote from their website
>> <https://www.openaire.eu/newsletter-items/sweden-proposed-national-guidelines-for-open-access-to-scientific-information>
>> :
>>
>> The basic principles in the proposed national guidelines are
>> that scientific publications and artistic works, as well as research data
>> forming the basis for scientific publications, that are the result of
>> publicly funded research, must be openly available.
>>
>> I'm sure the devil is in the detail but this seems like excellent news!
>> John and Jan, do you know much about this? What's the background?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Stevie
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