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
More information on Open Access
NHH Brage
NHH Brage (formerly BORA-nhh) is an open institutional archive. Articles available through NHH Brage are considered a supplement to journal publishing.
Why use NHH Brage?
- Articles that are freely available are more often cited than articles published only in commercial journals.
- Material archived in NHH Brage will receive permanent URLs, thus making them available also in the future
- NHH Brage, 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 NHH Brage is also indexed by search engines as Google, Bing, Yahoo and others
For researchers
- Publish academic articles
in NHH Brage (form in
Norwegian only)
For students
Copyright
Publications archived in NHH Brage are subdued the Norwegian intellectual achievement legislation. Publications will be made accessible only as long as there is an egreement between NHH Brage and the author/departement
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.
