Lulea University includes a large teacher training college, a growing college of music and a qualified economics and business administration programme. In total there are now 3500 students at the university and almost 2000 students in engineering. Together with the six large Swedish university cities, Lulea has permanent research facilities within the technical faculty. The library is a service institution for the entire university, and actually consists of three libraries: the Technical University Library and the Teacher Training College Library, both in Lulea, and the Music Teachers Training College Library in Pitea. The author discusses the user education programme. This is discussed in terms of online databases; funding; the pedagogic model; planning; the contents; evaluation; and the future

Paper presented at the Joint 2Fourth Annual IAMSLIC Conference and Seventeenth Polar Libraries Colloquy, 1998. The Ragnar Lassinantti Collection at Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, acquired the Ragnar Lassinantti Book Collection in 1990. The collection consists of about 13000 volumes, most of which are works of fiction and works on history, social science, geography, the history of literature, art and religion. The main focus of the literature in the collection is on Nordic conditions, with about 2000 volumes treating the Arctic regions of Fenno-Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula, including the Sami (Lapps) and the Laestadian movement. The collection not only contains literature in Swedish, but also in all of the other Nordic languages, especially Finnish. The archive material that belongs to the collection includes about 600 audio tape recordings. The tapes contain Ragnar Lassinantti's radio recordings from a radio programme which mostly consists of interviews with people from the Arctic regions of Fenno-Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula

The main purpose of this project has been to examine the accessibility of refereed conference articles and the OA- and publishing policies of conferences in order to in this way elucidate different aspects concerning self-archiving in Swedish institutional repositories. For this purpose, the project participants have examined a number of conferences and references to conference articles via their institutional repositories during a specific time period and described these from the perspective of a common scheme. The study has showed that the local institutional repositories fill an important role to make conference publications visible. We have found that ca. 50% of the conference papers can be published as postprints in our institutional repositories. We have noticed that ca. 15% or the studied conference articles are not available at all. It is, therefore, of great importance to use local institutional repositories as a publishing channel, not only for primary published material such as dissertations and reports, but also as a source for finding these conference articles "without a home". Between 20-25% of the examined articles were found in some type of OA archive; ca. half of these were found in one of the project participants' own institutional repositories. This indicates that the publishing database of respective higher education institution is an important factor for open accessibility. Ca. 10% of the conferences in the study had an explicit OA policy or expressed such a policy by openly making conference articles accessible on their conference sites. A big problem when it comes to self-archiving of conference articles is the lack of information about OA policy. The landscape of conference publishing is complex and the self-archiving of documents from conferences is very time-consuming. Above all, we would wish a policy resource for conferences similar to the SHERPA/RoMEO. At present, however, there is no other alternative than scrutinizing the conferences' copyright information to the authors and from this attempt to draw conclusions about possible self-archiving. To facilitate the future handling and classification of conference articles in Swedish institutional repositories a number of recommendations are suggested

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