PRESS RELEASE 26 MARCH 2014 If you want a Nordic perspective on green growth, welfare, health or the climate, the Nordic Council of Ministers' (NCM) new e-collection - http://norden.diva-portal.org - is a good place to start.
Launched today, the e-collection provides access to some 3,000 Nordic publications free to download. For example, the 627-page scientific work Nordic Nutrition Recommendations<http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=4&pid=diva2:704251>, the cornerstone of dietary guidelines in the Nordic countries, is due out tomorrow in book form but is already available in the new e-collection as a free download. Open Access The new platform for the e-collection has been developed by Uppsala University Library and is based on Open Source software. It complements the Open Access mandate that the NCM has bestowed upon its Secretary General, Dagfinn Høybråten. The mandate includes a requirement that all publications published and funded by the NCM's Secretariat and institutions will in future be Open Access, i.e. as a minimum available as free downloads. This step has been taken to improve access to the many hundreds of publications that the NCM publishes every year, and to send a clear signal to the world that we in the Nordic Region support democratic principles such as transparency and equal access for all, in deeds as well as in words. Facts The Nordic Council of Ministers is responsible for inter-governmental co-operation in the Nordic Region and has an annual budget of just under DKK 1 billion. As well as its Secretariat in Copenhagen, the NCM has 16 offices and institutions and works with whole host of other organisations. The portal: http://norden.diva-portal.org The Open Access mandate: http://www.norden.org/en/publications/open-access/open-access-mandate Contact: Niels Stern, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, Tel. +45 21717140 Niels Stern Head of Unit, Publications Direct +45 33 96 04 10 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Nordic Council of Ministers Ved Stranden 18 DK-1061 Copenhagen www.norden.org<http://www.norden.org/> ******************************************************************************** Denne mail er blevet scannet af http://www.comendo.com og indeholder ikke virus! ********************************************************************************
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