How to join?

S-WoBA is open to all Business Administration working paper series at Nordic universities and research institutes. By participating in S-WoBA your working papers will receive greatly enhanced exposure, as can be seen from the statistics page.

There is a SEK 2000 start up fee (to cover administration and support), after that participation in S-WoBA is free.

Joining S-WoBA is an easy 4-step procedure!

1. Check that the terms under which full text files are made available is acceptable to your organization.
2. Play around with the forms for the test working paper series MetaData.pl (for adding a paper to S-WoBA) and Update.pl (for updating the information about the paper) to get a feeling for how things work.
3. Collect the following information
   1. The name of the series
   2. The organization responsible for the series
   3. The person responsible for the content of the series (editor). Name and e-mail address
   4. The WP-coordinator (the person responsible for the adiministration of the series). Name and e-mail address.
   5. The appropriate way to write the number of a working paper. E.g. 98/01 or 345.
   6. If authors should be able to provide information about papers using the S-WoBA forms or if only the WP-coordinator should do this. (Note that all links to forms are for the fictitious test working paper series.)
   7. If access to the forms for your series should be restricted to computers in a domain or to a range of IP-numbers.
   8. If an e-mail should be sent to authors notifying them about each of the following events. The paper is added to S-WoBA
      • The bibliographic data is updated
      • Full text files are uploaded for the paper
      • Full text are removed from the server
      • Send a monthly e-mail with access statistics for the paper
   9. Layout for the abstract html pages for the series.
      That is, the content of the header and footer of abstract pages.
      • A GIF or JPEG for the top right corner (preferably not larger than 300x60 pixels) and text for the header (name of series, for example).
      • How we should link back to your organization in the footer of the pages (the image in the top left corner will also be linked to your organization).
   10. Content of the page with ordering instructions
   11. Content of the page with instructions for authors. If you whish to have one at S-WoBA that is.
   12. Default values for department and address in the MetaData.pl form.
4. Send the information by e-mail to Sune Karlsson ()

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