The Nordic List – Nordic collaboration for developing a common Nordic publication channel list

Abstract

Since 2015 the Nordic countries have been collaborating to develop a common registry of authorized research publication channels with bibliographic data on journals, series and publishers. Denmark, Finland and Norway have joined their national lists of authorized research publication channels, used for indicators in the national performance-based research funding systems. Sweden, Iceland, Greenland and Faroe Islands do not have a similar funding systems but wanted to use the Nordic list as a tool for a national or Nordic overview of authorized research publication channels. NSD - Norwegian Centre for Research Data, coordinated the technical development of the list and the work was funded by NordForsk and The Presidency of the Nordic Council. The plan for technical development was agreed upon by the collaboration and funding lasted from 2017 until summer 2018. The Nordic list consists of a bibliographic dataset on the publication channels listed in each countries national database. The national lists are joined technically in this system. The aim was to give all the countries a common source of information, bring resource efficiency for the establishes national lists, and a source of information and a tool for the Nordic countries without a list.