Open access its about making research findings free. Photo: sxc.hu

Open access literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright. Photo: sxc.hu

Open access – an introduction

Researchers financed by the Swedish Research Council must publish with Open access, making research findings free to read and download via the Internet.

Researchers may either archive previously published articles in large open databases, or they can publish directly in journals on the Internet that practice open access.

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FAQ open access

2010-08-31

SYNTHESYS visiting scientist programme


SYNTHESYS, a comprehensive network within the natural sciences invite scientists based at European...
2010-08-17

Major investment in EU-Japan research cooperation


The European Commission has recently published the first coordinated  EU-Japan calls within the...

New report

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A report from the Swedish Research Council deals with legal aspects of the construction in the form of research databases.
Read the English summary in the report

Meet a researcher

Roger Säljö. Photo: Per Westergård.
Roger Säljö, Göteborg University, Director of the Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction, and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society (LinCS), has a Linnaeus Grant from the Swedish Research Council.
Interview with Roger Säljö

Meet a researcher

Portrait of Li Liu. Photo: Anders Nilsson
Li Liu, PhD, Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, Umeå University, has a Project Research Grant from the Swedish Research Council.
Interview with Li Liu
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