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Art as academic output: quality assessment and Open Access publishing of artistic works at the University of Gothenburg

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Tomas Lundén  and
Karin Sundén
Tomas Lundén
Affiliation:
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU University Library, Box 234, 53223 Skara, Sweden. [email protected](Previous employment: University Librarian, Gothenburg University Library, Digital services)
Karin Sundén
Affiliation:
Gothenburg University Library, Art Library, Box 131, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden. [email protected]
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Abstract

How is artistic research and practice output within academia to be quality assessed and made available open access on the internet? Is it possible to integrate artistic research within a framework of bibliometrics, to allocate research funding at an institution? At the University of Gothenburg, a model for addressing these questions has been implemented at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, through close collaboration between faculty representatives and the University library. The institutional repository of the university now holds a growing collection of openly available output from artistic research and practice.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 40 , Issue 4: The role of the art librarian in the Open Access movement: Special Issue , 2015 , pp. 26 - 32
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2015

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