Open Science
At Royal Danish Library, we want to support and develop Open Science in close collaboration and dialogue with the universities and partners we service.
Open Science is a movement within research that emphasises transparency in all phases - from the collection of empirical data to the final publication of results. The objects include conducting more robust research, making results accessible to everyone, and from a societal perspective, saving resources by reusing data.
As part of Royal Danish Library's strategy and job as a provider of knowledge and cultural heritage, we wish to strengthen support for Open Science. Specifically, we are working to provide both knowledge and expertise as well as services and support for Open Science in all phases of research.
Goals and efforts
Our focus areas within Open Science
Within Open Science, we will focus on:
- contribute to ensuring open access to publicly funded research, including through national negotiations of licensed e-resources and the national work for Open Access.
- strengthen students' and researchers' use of the library's materials, including by making collection data available as open data, implementing the FAIR principles, and providing opportunities for text and data mining to highlight the research and teaching potential of cultural heritage collections.
- Increase the societal value of research through integrated servicing of universities with a strategic focus on supporting efforts within Open Education and Science.
Open Science supporting network
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.
Royal Danish Library is a member of and actively contributes to Europeana, LIBER, IFLA, OPERAS and actively participates in the Public Knowledge Project, which, among other things, develops the system behind tidsskrift.dk and the national e-book platform.
Support for Open Science services
Since 2020, Royal Danish Library has supported a number of initiatives to promote the transition to Open Science and sustainable not-for-profit OA infrastructure.
Open Access
The concept of Open Access means that research publications are made available unhindered and free of charge to all interested parties, and that in this way you get the most out of the research.
Royal Danish Library has established and is continuously developing research services with the aim of making more Danish research available that can show an easy path to knowledge.
Open Access licence agreements
Indexing journals in Directory of Open Access Journals
Tidsskrift.dk
Journal Finder
The national Open Access strategy
Upcoming services
Royal Danish Library is in the process of developing two digital platforms for publishing books and dissertation literature as well as open learning materials that support Open Science.
National e-book platform
In the period 2024-2027, Royal Danish Library will establish a national online platform where employees at Danish research institutions can publish research and professional e-books. The platform offers Danish research institutions a free publishing channel for publishing, for example, monographs, anthologies, theses and reports. Each research institution is offered its own universe on the platform, which is administered using the "Open Monograph Press" (OMP) system. Royal Danish Library provides training and ongoing support in the use of this system.
Research institutions can publish books as Open Access on the platform. Publishing Open Access means that readers can access the content of the books without logging in and paying. The platform will promote Open Access publishing in Denmark by increasing the number of Danish research and professional publications available online.
Royal Danish Library currently operates a similar platform with publications from Aarhus University, which will become part of the new platform.
LearningLib - Open Learning Objects
LearningLib is a joint digital Royal Danish Library-hosted platform for academic, research and educational libraries for the development, storage, dissemination and sharing of e-learning objects related to library and information science. The goal of LearningLib is to create an online community where knowledge sharing and development of teaching are in focus. If you work with dissemination and teaching of information skills yourself, LearningLib is your go-to platform when you are planning, developing and organising teaching.
