Hprints - Licence to publish

Ingegerd Rabow (1) , Marjatta Sikström (2) , Thea Marie Drachen (3) , Bertil F. Dorch (3) , Simone Schipp von Branitz Nielsen (3)

1 LUB - Lund University Library Head Office
2 SUB - Stockholm University Library
3 RSLIS - Royal School of Library and Information Science

This is the final report from Phase 2, the last phase of the second Nordbib-project on hprints and related issues. The first project set out to establish an e-print archive for the humanities and social sciences. Our case studies have shown that when informed more thoroughly about OA, researchers realised the potential advantages for them. The universities have a role here as well as the libraries that manage the archives and support scholars in various aspects of the publishing processes. Libraries are traditionally service providers with a mission to facilitate the knowledge production and dissemination of research results. Today‟s transitional and for researchers confusing state of scholarly communication should also lead to a modification of the missions of research libraries. Even they should undergo a kind of paradigm shift.

Domains: Library and information sciences

Ingegerd Rabow, Marjatta Sikström, Thea Marie Drachen, Bertil F. Dorch, Simone Schipp von Branitz Nielsen. Hprints - Licence to publish. 2010. ⟨hprints-00652250⟩