1. Scandinavian Information Policy and Financing Models Jens Thorhauge Biblioteksstyrelsen jth@bs.dk

2. Danish National Library AuthorityBielefeld Conference 2002. Jens ThorhaugeSlide 2 ”Scandinavia”, ”Information Policy”  5 countries, 8 languages, small populations, popular movements as basis for decentralized democratic model. Denmark as a typical example  Information policy: strategy based on principles securing access for everybody to published information in society

3. Danish National Library AuthorityBielefeld Conference 2002. Jens ThorhaugeSlide 3 Danish National Library Authority  National Agency, government adviser  administers library acts including development pools  Responsible for National Bibliography, DanBib, bibliotek.dk  Runs Denmark’s Electronic Research Library

4. Danish National Library AuthorityBielefeld Conference 2002. Jens ThorhaugeSlide 4 Principles in Danish Information Policy 1  Public authorities responsible that all citizens gain access to published info.  The state must provide efficient public infrastructure for information mediation. Public libraries and public research libraries form the backbone  Public authorities (the state) ensure the registration of publicly available information

5. Danish National Library AuthorityBielefeld Conference 2002. Jens ThorhaugeSlide 5 Principles in Danish Information Policy 2  The state must ensure the collection and preservation of information published in Denmark  public authorities must guarantee the users access to internationally available information  The state must ensure that information published in DK is available abroad

6. Danish National Library AuthorityBielefeld Conference 2002. Jens ThorhaugeSlide 6 Principles in Danish Information policy 3  Every citizen must be guaranteed access to sufficient training in how to exploit available information. Training in education on all levels - training of the public in public libraries.

7. Danish National Library AuthorityBielefeld Conference 2002. Jens ThorhaugeSlide 7 Organizing e-access in 2002  ”DanBib” - database with all library records in DK  bibliotek.dk/library.dk: search, request, delivery, borrow, buy  from catalogue to portal: net services and full text access

8. Danish National Library AuthorityBielefeld Conference 2002. Jens ThorhaugeSlide 8 Denmark’s Electronic Research Library  Three levels of access  General free access  license-based access  pay-per-view

9. Danish National Library AuthorityBielefeld Conference 2002. Jens ThorhaugeSlide 9 Organizing free general access  State institutions’ publications  Digitisation programmes - cultural heritage  Public service policy? ”Culture-net-dk”  Deff-portal  subject gateways & portals  retroconversion of catalogues

10. Danish National Library AuthorityBielefeld Conference 2002. Jens ThorhaugeSlide 10 Organizing licensed access  National strategy:  central handling of licenses (8000 journals) databases, dictionaries etc.  close cooperation between libraries (105 participating libraries)  e-resources also for very small institutions

11. Danish National Library AuthorityBielefeld Conference 2002. Jens ThorhaugeSlide 11 Organizing pay-per-view access  A few publishers offer ppv  access to limited full text resources on bibliotek.dk  ”subscription” preferred to ppv by publishers

12. Danish National Library AuthorityBielefeld Conference 2002. Jens ThorhaugeSlide 12 Barriers & problems  Lack of national policy for digitisation, need for growth in text mass  publishers reluctant towards e- publishing, e-books  copyright barrier for electronic exchange of documents  growth in needs for virtual as well as real resources and facilities