There are 8 universities, 8 University Colleges and a number of other public and private research institutions in Denmark. The public research is organised under the Ministry of Higher Education and Science.
The Ministry of Higher Education and Science manages and monitors the Danish Open Access strategy.
Denmark holds a National strategy for Open Access. The strategy states that the implementation of Open Access is to take place through the green model – i.e. parallel filling of quality-assured research articles in institutional or subject-specific archives (repositories) with Open Access. However, the strategy does not exclude the use of the golden model as long as it does not increase the expenses for publication.
Two central principles form the basis for the strategy:
The goal is 100% Open Access to publicly funded research publications by 2025.
Each of the 8 Danish universities has their own local Open Science Support Unit, typically based at the university libraries.
DeiC is working on national structure for RDM support and training.
Denmark has not implemented a national Open Access/Open Science policy yet. However, national strategies for Open Access and Research Data Management were released in 2015.
Among funders, there is a mixed picture in terms of OA policies. Unlike most other Nordic countries Denmark has quite large private research foundations. None of the largest Danish public and private research funding bodies - the Independent Research Fund Denmark, the Innovation Fund Denmark, the DNRF, the Carlsberg Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation – have a policy regarding open access to research data, with the Lundbeck Foundation as an exception.
The Lundbeck company and the Lundbeck Foundation have a clear policy on Open Access, disclosing clinical trial information and results summaries in public registries and shares clinical data generated by or sponsored by Lundbeck. Although all the private foundations generally seem to acknowledge the principle of Open Science, there is also a tradition of not adopting policies that are fundamentally driven by state actors.
The publicly funded research foundations have adopted a common OA policy based on the Danish Open Access Strategy. Only one of the private foundations in Denmark has done so. These foundations then require grant holders to make research results and articles publicly available. Data is specifically excluded from this requirement, and OA publication costs are not eligible for funding (and obviously neither is data management costs).
Public Danish funders with an Open Access Policy:
Private Danish funders with an Open Access Policy:
Denmark has 8 major Institutions which are listed here:
One central national aggregator collects publication data from Danish universities primarily: Danish National Research Database.
The Ministry of Higher Education and Science maintaines an Open Access Indicator that monitors the Open Access progress in Denmark. It can be found here: Danish Open Access Indicator
Danish Data Repositories:
Global Biodiversity Information Facility
The Royal Library offers a service tidsskrift.dk which runs on the OJS platform.
Danish universities make agreements with publishers bilaterally, there are no national consortia agreements to publishing.
Some Danish universities are supporting Knowledge Unlatched, but no national consortia agreement is in place.
Each of the 8 Danish universities has their own local Open Science Support Unit, typically based at the university libraries.
DeiC is working on national structure for RDM support and training.