Update (9/16/08). Here's some additional information from Jan Erik Frantsvåg, by email. (Thanks Jan Erik.)
At a later stage institutions from all of Norway might be included. The Bergen University Library will host the technical infrastructure and make technical support available. It is our hope that this will lower the threshold for journals/editors contemplating starting new OA journals or transitioning existing ones to OA. As technical infrastructure costs money, even with open source software, we see it as imperative that we cooperate, having only a small handful of OJS installations but making them available for all interested parties. It is the setting up of infrastructure that costs, whether 1 or 100 journals utilize it doesn't really affect costs much - so sharing is the only policy that makes sense.
Currently, we know of 3 OJS installations in Norway:
University of Tromsø, with 2 journals (and 2 more coming, we're just waiting for an upgrade)
Both Bergen and Tromsø are actively looking for more journals to "fill" their OJS installations.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/07/2008 06:41:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
