Open Science
The Royal Danish Library contributes to a democratic knowledge society. We aim to develop Open Science in close collaboration and dialogue with the universities and partners that we service.
By strengthening our Open Science services for universities, we can increase the openness and reusability of more robust research, which will benefit everyone in society.
As part of the Royal Danish Library's strategy and most important task as a supplier of knowledge and cultural heritage, we wish to strengthen support for Open Science. Concretely, we work to provide both knowledge and expertise as well as services and support for Open Science in all phases of the research.
On that basis, we will:
- contribute to ensuring open access to publicly funded research, i.a. through national negotiations of licensed e-resources and the national work for Open Access.
- strengthen students' and researchers' use of the library's materials, i.a. by making collection data available as open data, implementing the FAIR principles and text and data mining options to highlight the research and teaching potential of cultural heritage collections.
- increase the societal value of research through integrated servicing of the universities with a strategic focus on supporting initiatives within Open Education and Science.
Open Access
Support for Open Science services
Tidsskrift.dk
Indexing journals in Directory of Open Access Journals
Upcoming services
The Royal Danish Library is in the process of developing three services and digital platforms within the publishing of journal articles, books and thesis literature, as well as open learning materials, all of which support Open Science.
JournalFinder – search for journals in the national publication agreements
The Royal Danish Library's Journal Finder helps researchers find journals that are covered by the national publishing agreements on Open Access publishing. Journal Finder works by first choosing your institution and then learn which journals can be published in without paying an APC (article processing charge). In the Journal Finder you will find important details about each appointment, e.g. which Creative Commons licenses can be chosen, whether the agreement contains a cap on the number of free OA publications and which article types are included. To use Journal Finder, you do not need to register or log in.
National e-book platform
In the period 2024-2027, the Royal Danish Library establishes a national online platform where employees at Danish research institutions can publish scientific and academic e-books. The platform offers Danish research institutions a free publishing channel for publishing e.g. monographs, anthologies, theses and reports. Each research institution is offered its own universe on the platform, which is managed using the "Open Monograph Press" (OMP) system. The Royal Danish Library provides training and continuous support in the use of this system.
Research institutions can publish books as Open Access on the platform. The fact that Open Access is published means that readers can access the books' content without login or payment. The platform will promote Open Access publishing in Denmark by increasing the number of Danish, scientific and professional publications available online.
Currently, the Royal Danish Library runs a similar platform with publications from Aarhus University (https://ebooks.au.dk/aul), which will become part of the new platform.
LearningLib - Open Learning Objects
LearningLib is a common digital RDL-hosted platform for subject, research and education libraries for the development, storage, dissemination and sharing of e-learning objects related to library and information science. The aim of LearningLib is to create an online community where knowledge sharing and development of teaching are the focus. If you yourself work with dissemination and teaching of information skills, LearningLib is your go-to platform when you need to start planning, developing and organising teaching.
Open Science supporting network
The Royal Danish Library and its university libraries participate in a number of international networks that collaborate to promote Open Science and jointly work to make the knowledge and cultural heritage of the participating institutions open and accessible to all.
The Royal Danish Library is a member of and actively contributes to Europeana, LIBER, IFLA, OPERAS and actively participates in the Public Knowledge Project, which i.a. develops the system behind tidsskrift.dk and the e-book platform.
