Welcome to Knowledge Exchange

Knowledge Exchange is a co-operative effort that supports the use and development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) infrastructure for higher education and research.

The Knowledge Exchange partners are:

• Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF) in Denmark
• German Research Foundation (DFG) in Germany
• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom   
• SURFfoundation in the Netherlands

The Knowledge Exchange partners express a common vision based on our four national strategies:

To make a layer of scholarly and scientific content openly available on the Internet.

Making this vision a reality means creating the building blocks for a European information environment that is

outstanding in its support of research and higher education, bringing Europe together while extending the

reach of European research and teaching around the globe.

News

		Dutch higher education sector convinced of need for Open Access National research organisation makes 2.5 million euro available for Open Access to research results
		Report on The Future of Research and the Research Library available now The research sector is changing these years. This puts new challenges on the libraries for supporting research processes and communication of research
		Press release from Knowledge Exchange Successful reuse of research data requires integrated approach: Conclusions from Knowledge Exchange workshop in Berlin
		Knowledge Exchange Strategy Forum prioritises work on Research Data and Open Access The partners have expressed confidence in the work of the collaboration and agree that Knowledge Exchange should move forward with a stronger focus on two themes in particular: Access to data and Open Access to publications
		Licence to Publish now also available in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic The Licence to Publish has been translated into Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic. The organisation for the Nordic countries Nordbib was interested in the opportunities offered by this licence to have a piece of work published without taking the copyrights away from the author. The licence to publish offers authors a standard agreement in which the auteur does not hand over the copyright, but grants the publisher the right to publish the work while retaining the rights for the author to use the work for other purposes
		Dutch guide on legal status of research data now in English Guide on legal protection applying to research data has been translated from Dutch