Denmark and Norway Make Nationwide Commitments to BIOMED Central
Denmark and Norway have both recently made nationwide commitments to open access for publicly funded biomedical research. All universities, hospitals and other research institutes in Denmark and Norway became BioMed Central members in October.
The Norwegian Health Services Research Centre has secured a national deal with BioMed Central that covers the cost of publication in BioMed Central’s 120 open access journals for all publicly funded researchers, doctors and teachers in Norway. The membership agreement will initially run until the end of December 2005. Similarly, the Denmark membership agreement covers the cost of publication for all publicly funded researchers and teachers in Denmark. For more information, please see
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/pr-releases?pr=20041112 and
http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/about/pr-releases?pr=20041018 [SPARC e-news, October-November 2004, http://www.arl.org/sparc]
