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Open access in Denmark

research in and of Denmark that is online and free to read and reuse

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ50419797 ↗
Source-derived summary

Open access to scholarly communication in Denmark has grown rapidly since the 1990s. As in other countries in general, open access publishing is less expensive than traditional, paper-based, pre-Internet publishing.

Repositories and platforms

There are a number of collections of scholarship in Denmark housed in digital open access repositories. They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read. The consortial Scandinavian hprints repository began operating in 2008, specializing in arts, humanities, and social sciences content. In 2017, Aarhus University launched an open science platform, SPOMAN.

Policy

Leaders of the Copenhagen Business School voted in June 2009 to adopt an open access mandate, the first of its kind in Denmark.

In 2012 Denmark's main public funders of research began requiring that grantees deposit articles into open access digital repositories. In 2014, the Danish Ministry of Research created a national policy requiring open access for all publicly funded research published after 2020.

See also

Nordbib, a funding programme to aid and develop open access initiatives within the academic field in the Nordic countries

Publishing companies of Denmark

Internet in Denmark

Education in Denmark

Media of Denmark

Copyright law of the European Union

Open access in other countries

References

Further reading

in English

Bertil Dorch [in Danish]; Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard (2008). "Open access in Denmark".

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The public source identifies “Open access in Denmark” as research in and of Denmark that is online and free to read and reuse. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around access, Denmark and research.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2017, 2009, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with access, Denmark and research providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Open access in Denmark” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.