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Introducing Karger Campus!
For early-career researchers and more experienced scientists who wish to update their skills.
Free of charge when using a special assigned token.
As of the start of this autumn semester, access to Karger Learn online courses has ended. At the same time, courses at Karger Campus have been made available.
Research ethics, how to write academic text, and best practices for getting academic writing published by prestigious academic publishers are among the 10 major topics covered in Karger Campus courses:
1. How to Conduct Ethically Sound Research
2. How to Avoid Your Paper Being Rejected
3. How to Write a Compelling Case Report
4. How to Write a Clinical Research Paper
5.How to Review a Clinical Research Paper
6. How to Choose a Target Journal
7. How to Review a Systematic Review Paper
8. How to Conduct a Systematic Review
9. How to Decide on Preprints and Open Access
10. How to Get Your Paper Noticed Following Publication
In addition, there are quarterly webinars to support Karger Campus students.
Upcoming: September 2022 (exact date to be confirmed).
Who should use Karger Campus?
Karger Campus is especially useful for early-career researchers and for more experienced scientists who wish to update their skills.
Each course is typically 90–120 minutes long and is edited into short (15–20 minute) modules. At any time, users can leave the modules and resume where they left off at their convenience.
You need to have a MyKarger account before using Karger Campus.
Users who do not have a MyKarger account need to register with MyKarger before being able to sign in to Karger Campus. To register for MyKarger, please go to https://www.karger.com/
Users who already have a MyKarger account can sign in to Karger Campus at https://courses.karger.com/bundles/campus
When signing in to Karger Campus for the first time, users have to use the token icfes_2022
Using Karger Campus is free of charge when using the token icfes_2022
Campus Log-In Instructions Coupon Code
How is free access to Karger Campus possible?
The service is made available free of charge because of the Read and Publish agreement with Karger in the national access for Iceland.
Iceland Consortium for Electronic Subscriptions (hvar.is) provides access to over 18 thousand e-journals and databases to anyone who connects to the Internet via Icelandic Internet Service Providers. Visit https://hvar.is/english
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Iceland Consortium and Karger Publisher have signed Open Access Agreeement
The contract provides access to all Karger e-journals (including backfiles) and enables OA publishing with no additional cost to authors.
This transformative agreement is valid for 2021-2023 and includes access to the Karger eJournal Collection as well as unlimited publication for all Icelandic corresponding authors.
Submitting your Paper to a Karger Journal
The transformative agreement
The agreement also includes access to the KargerLEARN platform with more than 15 available courses which cover all aspects of academic publishing.
Instructions for signing in KargerLEARN.
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National access to Ebsco Premier collections stops at the end of 2020
Subscription for the Ebsco Premier was not renewed for 2021 and is not longer in the national access.
It may happen that some journals in Ebsco Premier collections are accessable in ProQuest Central, which continues to be in the national access.
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Nordic Consortia support LIBER’s Five Principles for Negotiations with Publishers
All Nordic consortia have signed the OA2020 “Expression of Interest in the Large-Scale Implementation of Open Access to Scholarly Journals”[1] and are working for a transition from a subscription-based scholarly journal model to an open access publishing model. The Association of European Research Libraries, LIBER, has published a strategy: “Five Principles for Negotiations with Publishers,”[2] which is in line with the mission of OA2020.
Nordic consortia would hereby like to endorse LIBER’s principles and aim to meet them in publisher negotiations. Nordic countries have different national open access strategies, and, consequently, the relevance of all LIBER’s principles may differ from country to country.
LIBER’s Five Principle for Negotiations with Publishers:
1. Licensing and Open Access go Hand-in-Hand
The world of subscription deals and APC-deals are closely linked. Nobody should pay for subscriptions and pay APCs at the same time (‘double dipping’). Each new license agreed on should therefore contain conditions about both sides of the coin. Increased spending on APCs should result in proportionately lower spending on subscription fees.
2. No Open Access, No Price Increase
There is enough money in the system already. Libraries have paid annual price increases of up to 8% for years, supposedly to allow publishers to innovate. A key feature of innovation for the research community is that research outputs are freely available. Therefore if an agreement with publishers on Open Access cannot be reached in our contracts, future price increases should not be accepted.
3. Transparency for Licensing Deals: No Non-Disclosure
The practices of libraries should fully reflect their commitment to Open Access. Licensing agreements should therefore be openly available. Society will not accept confidential agreements paid for with public money in the form of non-disclosure agreements, as recent developments in Finland and The Netherlands have shown.
4. Keep Access Sustainable
To avoid putting more money in the system, and to strengthen Open Access, some libraries have given up their rights to perpetual access in license agreement. Perpetual access is, however, critical in a quickly-changing publishing environment. Libraries must secure sustainable access to content.
5. Usage Reports Should Include Open Access
Although APC-buyouts are becoming more common, reporting about Open Access is still rare. Just as libraries receive reports about downloads and usage in the subscription world, they should also receive reports on Open Access publications. It is normal to receive insight into what we pay for.
Bibsam Consortium http://www.kb.se/bibliotek/centrala-avtal/Bibsam-Consortium/
CERES http://www.cristin.no/english/consortium/
DEFF https://www.deff.dk/english/
FinElib http://finelib.fi/
Iceland Consortium http://hvar.is/index.php?page=english
