The Role of the National Library as a Catalyst for an Open Access Agenda
The role of national libraries in developing national Open Access infrastructure and policy is discussed on the basis of the experiences of the National Library of Sweden. The NL Sweden since around 1990 combines the mission of a traditional national library with that of a national, research library authority. It coordinated its support for development of repositories and Open Access in the OpenAccess.se programme, that ran from 2006 to 2009. The priorities and outcome of the programme is described. Paper presented at the joint session of the Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters and the National Libraries Section within the 76-th IFLA General Conference and Assembly (August 10-15, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden). Published by author's permission.