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Focus Group on "OA-Arts"

Background and aims The focus group on OA-Künste is a network with a mailing list moderated since 2019 by Anika Wilde (Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch) and Friederike Kramer (Universität der Künste Berlin). It is open to all artistic institutions and universities. The target group: libraries as a service institution that can promote and help to establish Open Access structures at various levels. The aim is to provide a forum for exchange and discussion. Furthermore, the members of the focus group share materials and information amongst each other in order to strengthen Open Access in the arts. Organisational information If you are interested in the work of the focus group, you are welcome to register for the mailing list . If you would like to contribute in depth, you can also apply for a user account for the group's MediaWiki . To make it easier for us to assign you, please indicate that you are interested in working in the focus group "OA-Künste". The organising team of the focus group includes: Friederike Kramer (Universität der Künste) and Anika Wilde (Hochschule für Schauspielkuns Ernst Busch). For questions around the topics of the focus group, please contact Friederike Kramer . Kommende Veranstaltungen Datenmanagementpläne und der RDMO-Service von NFDI4Culture Sie sind digital künstlerisch oder gestalterisch tätig und wollen die bei Ihrer Arbeit anfallenden Daten so managen, dass andere damit arbeiten können? Sie sind eine Hochschuleinrichtung, die Daten aus studentischen Arbeiten oder wissenschaftlichen Projekten im Bereich der Künste entgegennimmt? Der Research Data Management Organiser (RDMO) ist ein flexibles und kostenfreies Werkzeug, das Sie beim Management Ihrer Daten und bei der Planung von digitalen Projekten aller Art unterstützen kann. Der Workshop bietet eine Einführung in das Thema Datenmanagementpläne (DMPs), führt in den RDMO-Service von NFDI4Culture und die Funktionalitäten des Werkzeugs ein und stellt außerdem konkrete Nutzungsmöglichkeiten vor. Die Veranstaltung gliedert sich in drei Teile: Einführung in DMPs Datenmanagement mit dem RDMO - das Tool von innen (mit Übung) Anwendung für die praktische Nutzung Wann? 15. April 2026 15.00-17.00 Uhr Wo? Webex Eine Anmeldung ist nicht notwendig. Previous Events Publikation und Dokumentation non-textueller Materialien am Beispiel des Artistic Research Catalogue Künstlerische Forschung ist ein vielfältiges, interdisziplinäres und oft mit nicht-textlichen Ergebnissen einhergehendes Forschungsgebiet, das in herkömmlichen Repositorien nur schwer zugänglich gemacht werden kann. Der Artistic Research Catalogue der Society for Artistic Research ist eine Open-Access-Datenbank für genau diese Arbeiten und bietet Lösungen für Text, Bild, Audio und Video. Die Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen fördert den RC aus Open-Access-Mitteln und bietet so der Hochschule für Künste Bremen eine Plattform für künstlerische Forschung und ihre Daten. Jan Charzinski und Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh stellen in ihrem Vortrag am 19. November 2025 (15:00-16:00 Uhr) den RC vor und zeigen anhand von Beispielen die Veröffentlichung non-textueller Materialien. Der Vortrag wurde erstmals am 25.06.2025 auf der Bibliocon gehalten. Im Anschluss ist eine offene Diskussion zu Standards und Qualitätssicherung im Bereich der Künste geplant. Referent*innen: Jan Charzinski (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen) und Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh (Hochschule für Künste Bremen) Datum: 19. November 2025 Uhrzeit: 15:00 – 16:00 Uhr Online: Discussion "AI meets Open Access in the arts" On 25th April 2024, the OA-Arts focus group invites you to an online discussion on the topic of "AI meets Open Access in the arts" from 14:00-15:30. What does AI actually mean for the arts? How does it influence works, their publication and their use? What does AI mean for Open Access and what does the European AI Act have to do with it? Beside exciting insights from our panellists, there will be room for your questions. Panellists Sonja Thiel, curator and museological researcher in the fields of open education, artificial intelligence and digital collections Robert Seidel, Artists in the fields of experimental film, installation, performance, sound, etc. Georg Fischer, employee at Open-Access-Büro Berlin and author for irights.info Oliver Vettermann, Representatives of the Legal Helpdesk von NFDI4Culture Participation The event will be held in German and is free of charge. Registration is not required. You can join the event via Zoom link or via Meeting-ID: 937 7514 5157 and identification code: 309712....

Focus Group on Information Budget

Background Concerning the open access transformation, academic libraries and institutions in Germany are faced with the challenge of implementing information budgets. The goal is an institution-wide and transparent publication and cost monitoring, e.g. the systematic recording and evaluation of an institution's publication volume as well as the centrally and decentrally incurred costs for publishing and literature supply. Tools and processes must be adapted and developed in close collaboration with many other organisational units, e.g. budget and third-party funding departments and controlling. There have been calls for transparent cost and publication monitoring in the context of the open access transformation for several years. With the DFG funding programme "Open Access Publication Costs" launched in 2021 and the recommendations of the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) on the transformation of scientific publishing to open access published in 2022, the topic is getting more important to libraries and science policy. In 2022 five workshops were offered by open-access.network under the title "Budget development in the context of the OA transformation". During the Open Access Days 2022 in Bern, a hands-on workshop was held on the topic of information budgets. Two current DFG projects also address the topic: OpenCost has been working on a standardised metadata scheme for (OA) publication costs, while Transform2Open will be dedicated to the conceptual issues of cost monitoring. Aims and objectives The focus group fosters as a practical exchange of experiences between academic libraries that are facing the challenge of information budgeting and/or have already taken the first steps towards an own information budget. Together we want to identify similar needs and requirements and discuss necessary fields of action. The group plans concrete measures and organises their implementation. Therefore, active participation of the individual members of the group is very important. Among other things, the following aspects are addressed: Agreement on the elements of information budgets and the standardisation of their presentation Summarising the necessary steps to introduce an information budget (target group: library and institution managers) Sharing best practices Organisational information If you are interested in the work of the focus group, you are welcome to register for the mailing list . The group uses a pad as a protocol. If you would like to work in more depth, you can also apply for a user account for the group's MediaWiki . To make it easier for us to assign you, please indicate that you are interested in working in the focus group "Information Budget". In addition, the group is working on a collection of literature and sources on the subject. Publications of the focus group will be collected in a Zenodo Collection . The organising team of the focus group: Irene Barbers (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Karolin Bove (Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek), Steffi Grimm (Freie Universität Berlin), Sascha Lauer (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Margit Schön (Forschungszentrum Jülich) and Agnieszka Wenninger (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research). For questions around the topic of the focus group, please contact Margit Schön and Karoline Bove . Cost transparency and information budget Poster about cost transparency and information budget. Schön, M., Barbers, I., Ferguson, L. M., Meistring, M., & Schultze-Motel, P. (2023). Kostentransparenz und Informationsbudget: Projekte, Initiativen und Infrastrukturen, die die finanzielle Dimension der OA-Transformation in den Blick nehmen. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8198940 Exchange with other projects The focus group has a steady exchange with various BMBF and DFG-funded projects. A sub-project of the BMBF-funded project is focussing on new approaches to open access financing and ways for a sustainable Open Access transformation. The BMBF-funded project focusses on further developments of budgets, criteria and competences at scientific institutions relating to the financial dimensions of the Open Access transformation. The DFG-funded project focusses on the creation of a technical infrastructure with which publication costs can be accessed freely via standardised interfaces and formats....

Focus Group on Open Access Helpdesks

Diese Fokusgruppe hat ihre Arbeit Ende Dezember 2023 eingestellt. Many scientists and scholars still have questions about how to deal with Open Access . Legal uncertainties often arise, but researchers are also unsure about practical issues such as choosing a suitable journal . This is where institutional helpdesks come in. These offer low-threshold advisory services in all matters relating to OA. The focus group aimed to bring together helpdesk advisors for a collaborative exchange of experiences on the following topics, among others: What forms of helpdesk consulting exist? Which offers are accepted by the researchers and how? Which further offers are necessary? How does helpdesk consulting work well (best practices)? What are the problems and how can they be solved? How can helpdesks support each other? Diese Fokusgruppe ist eingestellt. Das letzte Treffen fand am Freitag, 15. Dezember 2023 statt. Die Dokumentation der Treffen ist im gruppeninternen MediaWiki verfügbar. Wenn Sie Fragen zur Fokusgruppe haben, senden Sie bitte eine E-Mail-Nachricht an Michael Kleineberg oder Paul Schultze-Motel . Further Readings Kleineberg, M., Kötter, M., Schmitz, J., Schultze-Motel, P., & Wermbter, K. (2023). Vernetzung zur Open-Access-Beratung: die Fokusgruppe Open-Access-Helpdesks stellt sich vor . Poster, BiblioCon 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7956296 Helpdesk of the open-access.network Project...

Focus Group on Self-Archiving

Self-archiving ( green open access ) continues to play a significant role in the transformation of the scholarly publication system to open access . Self-archiving in repositories is sometimes the preferred or even the only available open access strategy. Scholarly journals are not the predominant publication medium in all disciplines . Especially in the case of edited volumes and conference proceedings, a direct gold or diamond open access option via the publisher is still frequently lacking. In addition, there are cases where gold open access fees are not covered by institutional funds or transformative agreements . Green open access also plays an important strategic role, for example in securing archival access to back issues of former subscription journals that have “flipped” to open access. Tools like Unpaywall, and services like DeepGreen have successfully contributed to making green open access more convenient for publishers and readers. Users, on the other hand, often perceive the process of self-archiving to be laborious; they also face technical and legal uncertainties. In order to overcome these obstacles, many academic libraries offer services such as legal checks, publisher enquiries or full-text uploads to their institutional or disciplinary repositories. These services are also known as self-archiving services. As the German word for “self-archiving is Zweitveröffentlichung, self-archiving services are often referred to in German as “ZVS”, the abbreviation of Zweitveröffentlichungsservices . These services are resource-intensive for providers, and frequently raise practical and legal issues. In view of these challenges at the working level, the Focus Group on Self-Archiving aims to provide a space for all providers of and parties interested in ZVS to, among other things, exchange views on ZVS-related issues and central topics; reflect on and further develop their own approaches in the context of this exchange; pool resources so that common interests can be advanced, for example with regard to publishers without self-archiving policies; use the insights gained into the workflows of other institutions to make their own work practices more effective; exchange views on legal issues; build and maintain a common knowledge base of generic questions, answers and information; explore and exploit opportunities for cooperation. If you are interested in the work of the focus group, you are welcome to register for the mailing list . If you would like to actively participate in the group, you can also request a user account for the group's MediaWiki . To make it easier for us to assign you, please indicate that you are interested in participating in the Focus Group on Self-Archiving (Fokusgruppe "Zweitveröffentlichung"). If you have any questions about the focus group, please contact: Arvid Deppe or Sonja Härkönen . German Copyright Law (UrhG) for Scientists and Scholars Video on Scholars' and Scientists' Self-Archiving Rights [German]. ( CC BY 3.0 DE ) Quelle: Brehm, E. (2021). Zweitveröffentlichungsrecht für Wissenschaftler*innen, open-access.network. https://doi.org/10.5446/51789 German copyright law (UrhG) for scientists and scholars What are Repositories? Find an introduction here. Operating Repositories Find an introduction here....

Focus Group on Subject Repositories

Background and aims Subject Repositories offer robust publication infrastructures and various associated services for specific subject communities. One of their central goals is to promote Open Access within these communities. This digital focus group transfers the existing networking meeting of "Subject Repositories" into a new framework. Operators of Subject Repositories meet regularly, both virtually and in person, to exchange information on current developments, support each other and plan joint projects. Information The focus group meets every eight weeks (wednesdays). The next meeting will take place on 15th November 2023 from 10 am to 12 am via Webex. If you are interested in the work of the focus group, you are welcome to register for the mailing list . If you would like to actively participate in the group, you can also apply for a user account for the group's MediaWiki . To make it easier for us to assign you, please indicate that you are interested in working in the focus group "Subject Repositories". If you do have any content-related questions about the focus group, please contact Christian Woll and Karin Langenkamp . What are Repositories? Find an introduction here. Operating Repositories Find an introduction here. Disciplines at a glance Find an introduction here....

Online-Workshop am 09. Februar 2022

Wir wollen mehr Open Access wagen! Wege, Modelle und Services für die Politikwissenschaft Der Online-Workshop "Wir wollen mehr Open Access wagen! Wege, Modelle und Services für die Politikwissenschaft" findet am 9. Februar 2022 von 10:00 bis 14:30 Uhr statt. Veranstaltet wird er im Rahmen des BMBF-geförderten Projekts open-access.network gemeinsam vom Open-Access-Büro Berlin und dem Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft - Pollux . Ob Aufsatz, Buchpublikation oder die Veröffentlichung einer Dissertation - die Möglichkeiten im Open Access zu publizieren sind so breit aufgestellt wie die Politikwissenschaft selbst. Der Workshop soll darüber informieren, welche Möglichkeiten es gibt, die eigenen Publikationen in den Open Access zu überführen bzw. diese barriere-, kostenfrei und rechtssicher online zur Verfügung zu stellen. Was bedeutet es, ob als Professor*in oder Nachwuchswissenschaftler*in, im Open Access zu publizieren? Welche Beispiele und Angebote bieten Orientierungspunkte? Welche Bedarfe, Vorbehalte und Wünsche der Unterstützung gibt es? Gemeinsam blicken wir auf die Wege des Publizierens, die Chancen, aber auch die Herausforderungen des Publikationsprozesses. In zwei thematischen Blöcken möchten wir eine Möglichkeit zum Austausch für Wissenschaftler*innen und wissenschaftlich Publizierende in der Politikwissenschaft bieten. Jun.-Prof. Arndt Leininger , Ph.D. (Politikwissenschaftliche Forschungsmethoden, TU Chemnitz) und Dr. Philipp Schulz (Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien der Universität Bremen) gewähren Einblicke in Ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Thema Open Access. Praktische Umsetzbarkeit und Unterstützungsangebote werden vorgestellt sowie die Gelegenheit zum Netzwerkaufbau geboten. Um Anmeldung über unten stehendes Anmeldeformular wird gebeten. Zielgruppe Der Workshop richtet sich an Wissenschaftler*innen und Publizierende der Politikwissenschaft. Vorerfahrungen im Bereich Open Access sind nicht erforderlich. Agenda 9:45-10:00 Ankommen 10:00-10:20 Begrüßung & Warm-Up 10:20-10:30 Einführende Impulse 10:30-11:10 Open Access - Erfahrungsberichte (Jun.-Prof. Arndt Leininger, Ph.D., TU Chemnitz & Dr. Philipp Schulz, Uni Bremen) 11:10-11:40 Peer-to-Peer-Austausch 11:40-12:00 Alles was Recht ist (Dipl.-Wirt.Jur. Thomas Hartmann, LL.M., FIZ Karlsruhe) 12:00-12:10 Bewegte Pause mit Noemi 12:10-13:00 Pause 13:00-13:45 Open-Access-Publizieren - Wo & Wie? (Dr. Agathe Gebert, SSOAR & Stefanie Hanneken, transcript Open Library PoWi & Dr. Kurt Salentin, IJCV) 13:45-14:15 Ask the expert - Publikationswege 14:15-14:30 Wrap-Up & Feedback Veranstaltungsort Die Veranstaltung wird online in Zoom (bereitgestellt durch die Universität Bremen) stattfinden. Die Zugangsdaten erhalten Sie kurz vor der Veranstaltung via Email. Mit Ihrer Anmeldung stimmen Sie den Nutzungsbestimmungen von Zoom zu. Anmeldung geschlossen. Beiträge Impulse open-access.network & Einführung in Open Access (Linda Martin, open-access.network) Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft - Pollux (Regina Pfeifenberger, Pollux) Alles was (Urheber-)Recht ist (Dipl.-Wirt.Jur. Thomas Hartmann, LL.M., FIZ Karlsruhe) Publizieren Publizieren mit SSOAR (Dr. Agathe Gebert, SSOAR) Publizieren in der transcript Open Library Politik (Stefanie Hanneken, transcript) International Journal of Conflict & Violence (Dr. Kurt Salentin, Universität Bielefeld) Organisation Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft - Pollux Projekt open-access.network Open-Access-Büro Berlin...

Open Access Publication

Intro The Path a Publication Takes Source: based on Rücknagel, J. & Schmeja, S. (2021). Open Access Basics - How to publish and What to Consider? (S.4). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4530414 ( CC BY 4.0 International ) The key takeaways from this article are 1 Authors can make their publications freely available by publishing them open access or by self-archiving them in an open access repository. 2 When choosing a publication venue, criteria such as thematic focus, quality, and costs should be considered. 3 When self-archiving, authors should grant third parties rights of use in the works. Scientific Publishing Only when authors publish their research results do their findings achieve visibility and can thus be adequately recognised and cited. For a long time, publishing works in print media – for example, as journal articles, monographs, or contributions to collections – was the most common way of permanently recording and disseminating scholarly and scientific information. Through the possibility of electronic publication, and especially through open access , a large number of alternative publication options have arisen. This significantly increases the citation frequency, and thus also the visibility, of research results ( Swan, 2010; Li et al., 2018 ). The aspects that should be considered when publishing open access or when self-archiving in an open access repository are outlined in what follows. Scientists can actively support the change to open science through their own publishing behavior. This practical tip "Supporting Open Access" explains how. Practical Tip What variants of open access publishing are there? Which ones are suitable for me? Where can I publish in accordance with the principles of open access? How do I find a suitable journal? What do research funders expect? You can find the answers in the presentation " Open Access Basics – How to Publish and What to Consider? " Practical Tip The AuROA catalogue of services ( Leistungskatalog ) offers a compilation of possible individual tasks and services in the open access publishing process. AuROA (Authors and Legal Certainty for Open Access) is a project that between 2021 and 2023 addressed the heterogeneous and complex needs, perspectives and demands of open access publishing in book-oriented disciplines. Publication Routes Source: based on Oberländer, A. (2020). Open Access – Es ist nicht alles Gold, was glänzt. In: Open Science. Von Daten zu Publikationen. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4018594 ( CC BY 4.0 International ) The road to publication usually starts with the decision as to how the research results should be published. There are many reasons in favour of open access publishing; they are summarised on the Reasons and Reservations page. Basically, two different open access strategies can be distinguished: gold open access and green open access . Gold open access refers to the publication of scholarly works as articles in open access journals , as open access monographs , or as contributions to open access collections or conference proceedings. This literature is freely available and reusable immediately, without an embargo period . Green open access means making research results freely available by self-archiving them in an institutional or disciplinary repository . This can also be done in parallel with or after publication in a journal or with a publisher. Choosing a Publication Venue Several parameters play a role when choosing a publication venue. These parameters are largely the same for closed access and open access publications. They include the thematic focus of the venue; the type of quality assurance it employs; its reputation in the field; and, if applicable, the licensing conditions under which the publications are made available and the level of any publication fees that may be charged. In the context of open access, research funders’ requirements increasingly play a role. Among funders, one finds not only regulations whereby grant holders should provide open access to the scholarly publications arising from funded research, but sometimes also specific requirements with regard to publication venues ( Dreher, 2020; Rücknagel, 2021 ). Further information on research funders’ policies and a list of funding organisations can be found on the Financing page . Die Vorteile einer Open-Access-Dissertation Quelle: Becklas, C., Hauss, J. (2024): Die Vorteile einer Open Access Dissertation. open-access.network, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) et al. https://doi.org/10.5446/68305#t=00:00,01:15 ( CC BY 3.0 DE ) Source: Translation of a flowchart by Brinken, H. & Rücknagel, J. (2021). Open Access – Das sind Ihre Möglichkeiten für die Publikation von Artikeln. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5045255 ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ). Practical Tip The following tools can be helpful in finding suitable OA publication venues for your own manuscript: oa.finder (a tool for searching for scholarly publication venues; developed as a project by open-access.network ) B!SON (Open Access journal recommender, developed by TIB and SLUB Dresden ) Gold Open Access Finding Suitable Journals/Publishers If the intention is to publish a work open access (gold OA), for example, as a journal article, a monograph, or a contribution to a collection, it is advisable to first search for thematically suitable journals or publishers with open access offerings. On our web page Subject-Specific Open Access , we provide discipline-specific information that can offer helpful introductory pointers. Open access journals can be searched via the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) or the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) . For open access books, the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and the online library and publication platform OAPEN are first ports of call. Suitable publication venues can also be found in conversation with colleagues. If a publisher does not offer a gold open access option, it is often worthwhile enquiring specifically whether it would allow the article to be self-archived in a repository. Quality Criteria Open access publications undergo the same quality assurance proce­dures as traditional publications. The review procedures do not differ either: from classical peer review and editorial review to open review procedures – everything can be found here. The German-language publication Qualitätsstandards für Open-Access-Monografien und -Sammelbände ( AG Universitätsverlage, 2018 ) offers guidance when choosing a suitable publisher for open access books. When choosing a journal, the German-language checklist on the quality of open access journals provided by Brinken et al. (2021) can help when assessing its quality. Further information in this regard can be found on the Open Access Journals and Open Access for Monographs pages. The impact and visibility of scholarly publications play an important role for the reputational gains and thus for the career prospects of individual scholars and scientists. Studies show that the citation frequency of open access publications is usually much higher than that of their closed access counterparts. Overviews in this regard are provided by the Open Access Citation Advantage Service and by Piwowar and colleagues’ Large-Scale Analysis of the Prevalence and Impact of Open Access Articles ( Piwowar et al., 2018 ). Journal Impact Factors , a metric of the citation frequency of articles in scholarly journals, are published in the annual publication Journal Citation Reports , which also covers open access journals. So-called altmetrics have emerged as an alternative to the traditional bibliometric indicators. They capture the diverse reactions to a scholarly publication on the Web. Financing In contrast to closed access, where libraries and users pay for access, open access publications are financed in a different way. The so-called author-pays model, whereby authors pay article processing charges (APCs) or book processing charges (BPCs) to have their works published, is very common in the open access context. To find out whether, or what level of, author fees are charged, it is usually helpful to check the website of the journal or publisher. If a journal indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) charges APCs, details are deposited in the journal record. However, a large percentage of open access journals indexed in DOAJ are free of charge both for readers and authors ( Morrison, 2018 ). These journals are financed, for example, by professional societies, academic institutions, library consortia, or – in kind – by voluntary work. For open access books, university presses run by universities or their libraries, and publishing initiatives established by scholars and scientists (e.g. the consortium ScholarLed ) are an affordable and high quality alternative to commercial publishers. Detailed information on financing open access articles and books can be found on the Financing page. Many research institutions have a publication fund from which open access publication fees can be paid. The management of the funds is usually located at the institutions’ libraries. In addition, some open access publishers offer institutional membership, which is similar to a discount model. Institutions pay an annual membership fee, thereby enabling their members to publish their works in the journal in question free of charge or for a reduced fee. Moreover, via transformative agreements with commercial publishers, such as those negotiated by the German initiative Projekt Deal , contractually agreed fees for individual hybrid open access articles in subscription journals are increasingly borne by library consortia. Information on this is provided by the open access officers at the respective institutions . The funding of genuine open access models by consortia is increasingly moving into focus: the costs are borne by a consortium, and no publication fees are payable by authors, irrespective of whether their institutions participate in the financing. In addition to funding research, some funding organisations also bear publication costs for articles in scholarly journals and other publications. When submitting a funding proposal to the German Research Foundation (DFG) , application can also be made for a publication grant. The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) have established dedicated funding programmes to finance open access articles and books. The Volkswagen Foundation also bears the publication costs incurred by the projects it funds and expects grant recipients to publish open access. International funding organisations, such as the Wellcome Trust , as well as the EU framework programme Horizon 2020 , reimburse publication charges for open access articles within the framework of their funding. In addition, the Open Access Books Toolkit provides a l ist of funding sources for open access books . Practical Tip An overview of the requirements that open access journals must fulfil and concrete criteria that authors can use as a guide when choosing a suitable publication venue, can be found in the presentation " Publishing Open Access: How to evaluate a journal's quality ". Research Funders and Open Access Find an introduction here. Video on the Funding of Open Access Articles Source: Becklas Dorow, C., Hauss, J. (2026). Funding Open Access Articles – What Are the Options?. Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), open-access.network. https://doi.org/10.5446/73596 ( CC BY 3.0 DE ) Finanzierung von Open-Access-Monographien Quelle: Brinken, H. (2020). Finanzierung von Open-Access-Monographien, open-access.network. https://doi.org/10.5446/49535 ( CC BY 3.0 DE ) Self-Archiving (Green Open Access) It is not always possible to publish open access, for example, when no suitable open access journal is available. A publication can nonetheless be made freely available by self-archiving it in an open access repository. In this way, the author can comply with the open access mandate of a funding organisation or their own institution, and the publication can be made freely accessible to everyone worldwide. Finding a Suitable Repository The self-archiving of publications can take place in institutional or disciplinary repositories. The Information for Different Disciplines page lists the repositories available in the respective disciplines. The Open Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) also provide overviews. Authors do not have to pay any charges to make their publications available in an institutional or disciplinary repository, nor do readers have to pay to access these publications. What specifically needs to be considered when (self-)archiving can be read by country in our legal section . Self-Archiving Rights Most publishers allow their authors to make their works available in repositories in parallel with publication. The Sherpa Romeo database provides an overview of the open access policies of many journal publishers. Publishers often allow the author’s final version after peer-review (author’s accepted manuscript, AAM) or the published version to be self-archived. Publishing agreements should be drafted in such a way that the authors reserve the right to self-archive their works online in a freely accessible way. Ideally, authors should grant the publisher only non-exclusive rather than exclusive rights of use for the intended types of use. If this is not possible, and no alternative publishing option is available, authors can consider attaching an addendum to the publishing agreement in order to reserve a non-exclusive right to use the work online in a repository. Various possible solutions to this problem are available on the Publishing Agreements page. Under Section 38 of the German Act on Copyright and Related Rights (UrhG) , authors of scientific contributions that result from research activities at least half of which were financed by public funds, and that were published in a collection that appears periodically at least twice a year, have the right to self-archive them in an open access repository upon expiry of 12 months after publication. According to this statutory provision on self-archiving , it is therefore possible in these cases to make these works available in a repository even if the publishers have been granted exclusive rights of use ( Brehm, 2021 ). A German-language guide issued by the Communication, Information, Media Centre (KIM) at the University of Konstanz provides an overview of the topic of self-archiving. Self-archiving is easier when a work is published in an open access journal or with an open access publisher. As a rule, they allow the work to also be made available in a repository provided the place of publication is credited. Find Repositories on OpenDOAR Click here. Legal Questions Find an introduction here. Legal Parameters Wie genau funktionieren Creative-Commons-Lizenzen? Quelle: Brinken, H., Hauss, J. & Rücknagel, J. (2021). Wie genau funktionieren Creative-Commons-Lizenzen? open-access.network. https://doi.org/10.5446/52952 ( CC BY 3.0 DE ) Source: Foter (2015). How To Attribute Creative Commons Photos ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Authors who wish to make their works available in open access should observe several legal parameters. Of central importance is that the authors themselves have the right to exploit their works online. However, this is not necessarily a given in standard publishing agreements. An overview of the legal situation in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland can be found on the Legal Issues page, which provides information on copyright, making documents available in repositories, publishing agreements, licences, liability law, and data protection. Open Access Licences One important aspect of open access is the reuse of publications. In order to make it clear what rights third parties have when (re-)using research results, user licences are granted. It is up to the authors themselves to decide what degree of freedom of use of their works they wish to allow. It is recommended that they allow a free worldwide right of access to and reuse of the publication. The granting of open licences by authors should take place in consultation with the respective publishers or, if applicable, in compliance with the repositories’ licensing requirements. In the area of science and research, the open Creative Commons (CC) are the most common. An overview of various open content licensing models can be found on our Licences page . The use of licences to grant specific rights of use facilitates law enforcement in the case of misuse and gives users explicit indications as to how the document in question may be reused. At the same time, the author reserves the right to permit in separate agreements further uses that go beyond those specified in the licence. Predatory Journals Unfortunately, there are also journals that exploit publication charges. These predatory journals , which are founded by so-called predatory publishers, try – sometimes massively – to attract researchers to publish in their journals. However, they do not observe the usual standards of good scientific practice. Hence, there is no quality assurance, for example, in the form of peer review, nor is there adequate editing. Thus, predatory journals damage science and scholarship because they also publish poor-quality contributions whose compliance with academic or ethical standards has not been checked. As publications in these dubious journals can cause substantial damage to the reputations of scholars and scientists, they are urgently advised against submitting manuscripts to them. Source: Monash Health Library. Predatory Publishing A-Z Elements ( CC BY-NC 4.0 ) Online course Find the online course Predatory Journals: Identify, Avoid, and Publish Safely here Practical Tip Recognising Predatory Journals It is not always easy for authors to recognise whether a journal is predatory or not, because the providers often go to a lot of trouble to make their journals appear trustworthy. On professional-looking websites, sometimes entire editorial boards are given false names or well-known researchers are listed as editors without their knowledge. The German-language checklist on the quality of open access journals provided by Brinken et al. (2021) can help authors to make informed decisions. Other criteria for the assessment of the trustworthiness of a journal are provided by the website Think. Check. Submit. It can also be helpful to ask colleagues whether they have ever heard of the journal in question. In case of suspicion, attention should definitely be drawn to the journal. By keeping their eyes open and being the properly aware, authors can avoid publishing with predatory publishers by mistake. The Monash Health Library has published the useful Predatory publishing A-Z elements . Further German-language information on predatory journals and predatory publishers can be found in an overview provided by Helmholtz Open Science and in a fact sheet published by the Science Media Center Germany . In addition, there is a catalogue of criteria for recognising high-quality journals and so-called fake journals. References AG Universitätsverlage. (2018, September 11). Qualitätsstandards für Open-Access-Monografien und -Sammelbände . https://ag-univerlage.de/?p=1974 Brehm, E. (2021). Zweitveröffentlichungsrecht für Wissenschaftler*innen. https://doi.org/10.5446/51789 Brinken, H., Rücknagel, J., & Wenninger, A. (2021). Checkliste zur Qualität von Open-Access-Zeitschriften . Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4643853 Dreher, L. (2020, August 27) . Open-Access-Vorgaben in EU-Projekten . OpenAccessTalk. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4048489 Li, Y., Wu, C., Yan, E., & Li, K. (2018). Will open access increase journal CiteScores? An empirical investigation over multiple disciplines. PLOS ONE , 13 (8), e0201885. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201885 Morrison, H. (2018, January 31). DOAJ APC information as of Jan 31, 2018. Sustaining the Knowledge Commons / Soutenir Les Savoirs Communs. Open Access Scholarship / Littérature Savante En Libre Accès . https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2018/02/06/doaj-apc-information-as-of-jan-31-2018/ Piwowar, H., Priem, J., Larivière, V., Alperin, J. P., Matthias, L., Norlander, B., Farley, A., West, J., & Haustein, S. (2018). The state of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. PeerJ , 6 , e4375. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4375 Rücknagel, J. (2021, April 15). Fördererauflagen zu Open Access - was gilt es zu beachten? OpenAccessTalk. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4694320 Rücknagel, J., & Schmeja, S. (2021, January 28). Open access basics – How to publish and what to consider? OpenAccessTalk. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4530414 Swan, A. (2010). The Open Access citation advantage: Studies and results to date . https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/268516/ Further Reading Forschungszentrum Jülich, Zentralbibliothek (2022). Predatory Publishers. "Schwarze Schafe" im Wissenschaftsbetrieb. Checkliste. URL: https://www.fz-juelich.de/de/zb/open-science/predatory-publishers Reimer N., & Halbherr, V. (2021). Kriterienkatalog zur Erkennung von qualitativ hochwertigen Journals und von sogenannten Fake-Journals. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5031928 Schmitz, J., & Schmeja, S. (2019). Bericht zum Workshop "Was tun, wenn es passiert ist? Umgang mit Publikationen, die bei einem Predatory Journal eingereicht wurden." https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3553616 Solomon, D. J., & Björk, B.-C. (2012). A study of open access journals using article processing charges. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology , 63 (8), 1485–1495. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.22673...

Open Access Repositories

Intro Publishing in Repositories Source: based on Koch, M. (2015). Publizieren über das Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover. TIB Blog The Key takeaways from this article are 1 Repositories are document servers on which scholarly materials are archived and made available free of charge. 2 A distinction is made between institutional and disciplinary repositories. 3 Content and metadata stored in repositories are made available via OAI interfaces. The DINI Certificate ensures the quality standards of document servers. What Are Repositories? Repositories are document servers operated by universities or research institutions on which scholarly materials are archived and made available free of charge worldwide. Categories of Repositories A distinction is made between institutional and disciplinary repositories. Institutional repositories are document servers operated by institutions (mainly university libraries, other infrastructural institutions, or research organisations) that enable their members to digitally publish scholarly documents. Disciplinary depositories, by contrast, are trans-institutional. They are available to scientists and scholars to publish and archive their works on specific subjects, for example, in a specialist discipline. Examples are media/rep/ , an open access repository for publications in the field of media studies ; Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR) for the social sciences ; PubMed Central for the biomedical and life sciences ; and arXiv for scholarly articles, especially from the fields of physics , mathematics , and computer science . As a rule, authors do not have to pay a fee to make scholarly works available in institutional or disciplinary repositories, and users do not have to pay to access these works. As of November 2021, the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) listed 5,771 repositories, via which universities and research institutions enable scientists to make scholarly documents freely available to the public. Operating a Repository Find an introduction here. Open Access Helpdesk Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have about open access. Focus Group on Self-Archiving Feel free to discuss developments in self-archiving with experts in the Focus Group on Self-Archiving. Rights Rights in the Case of Self-Archiving Documents that are made available in repositories are frequently also published formally with a publisher – for example, in a journal, an edited volume, or as a monograph. The use of a repository to make a work that has also been published with a publisher available to the public is refer­red to as self-archiving ; it constitutes green open access . In this case – in contrast to open access journals , for example – content licences are of minor importance. Scientists and scholars who, in addition to formal publication, also make their works available on a document server have often already transferred all rights of use to the publisher, and can there­fore no longer license the self-archived version under a content licence. Rather, the possibility of self-archiving documents that have already been published in a journal or with a publisher presupposes either that the author has reserved the right to make the work available in a repository, or that the work is covered by the relevant provisions of copyright law (in Germany, e.g., the so-called Zweitveröffentlichungsrecht ). The publisher’s open access policy might provide for the option that the work will be covered by the open access provisions of the German Alliance licences . The infographic at the bottom of this page provides brief information on self-archiving formally published works in repositories. Rights in the Case of Gold Open Access The rights situation is much simpler when repositories are used to pub­lish scholarly works for the first time ( gold open access ) – for example, to publish conference proceedings, series, or other texts that are not pub­lished in parallel with a publisher. In this case, the authors usually hold the exclusive rights in the content of the works, and are therefore completely free to choose the conditions under which they are made available. Hence, they can be licensed under one of the aforementioned content licences, or they can simply be made available in accordance with the provisions of copyright law. Works that are first published in reposito­ries, which are often known as preprints , can be found, for example, on the document servers arXiv or Zenodo . Because the documents found in repositories often vary in terms of content or subject matter, it is expedient when searching for documents to use a specialised search engine, such as the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), which accesses full texts in repositories. Legal issues Find an introduction here. Video über das Zeitveröffentlichungsrecht Quelle: Brehm, E. (2021). Zweitveröffentlichungsrecht für Wissenschaftler*innen, open-access.network. https://doi.org/10.5446/51789 ( CC BY 3.0 DE ) Content and Added Value of Repositories The designs and functionalities of repositories are varied and extensive. Besides the classical differentiation between institutional and disciplinary repositories, repositories also vary in terms of the content provided, additional services, and their technical configuration. Many document servers provide for the archiving of all types of electronic (text) documents – for example, preprints and post-prints of journal articles, working papers, books and contributions to books, theses, and teaching and learning materials – whereas others exclude some document types. Via their interfaces and indexing services, networked repositories offer numerous value-added services: the virtual aggregation of thematically related documents from different document servers, thereby avoiding the need for time-consuming searches on numerous different servers and allowing the easiest possible access to scholarly texts personalisation functions, for example, the creation of profiles by means of which readers can be informed about new documents on a particular subject the automatic creation of publication lists or bibliographies of authors or working groups that can be dynamically integrated into personal websites or other online profiles, for example, research information systems services such as Unpaywall , INSPIRE , or Google Scholar that allow different versions of the same document to be identified, thereby possibly enabling users who do not have access to a formal closed access publication to find an open access version on a document server Repositories often allow the downloading of bibliographic data, which can then be imported into reference administration programs, thereby enabling comfortable use of the information in future publications. Services such as INSPIRE and Google Scholar make it possible to access citation data for works on document servers and thus to identify their citation impact. Statistical data show the dissemination and impact of documents in repositories. This information can be obtained in the form of download statistics (e.g., by using the data of the DFG project Open-Access-Statistik (OAS) or another statistics solution). Altmetrics capture the circulation of scholarly information in scholarly and public networks and media. Via mutual linking between related objects, such as texts and research data or software, scientists can make the entire output of a research project available in an integrated way. Document servers enable authors to comply easily with the funding guidelines of research funders, whereby project-related publications are to be made available in open access. Many repositories even enable publications to be assigned to a specific research project. For example, anyone who imports a document into Zenodo or another OpenAIRE -compatible repository can add the EU grant ID via the metadata. The aim of the above-mentioned value-added services and functions is to increase the visibility and dissemination of the publications in the repositories. In this pursuit, the repositories rely mainly on networking and cooperation with other information services or search engines. Of equal importance is the linking of personal or institute websites, annual bibliographies, or current research information systems (CRIS). Findability of the Documents The fact that most repositories use the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) immensely facilitates the search for scholarly documents. Moreover, it ensures the aforementioned dissemination of openly accessible information. The OAI-PMH allows the metadata of documents in distributed repositories to be aggregated in one database. Technically speaking, the OAI-PMH is an XML-based protocol that serves to request and transmit metadata. An OAI service provider (e.g. OAIster or BASE) supports the search by using the OAI-PMH. The service provider harvests metadata from the individual repositories (the content providers), processes them, and makes them available for search queries. This guarantees the findability as well as the maximum dissemination, and thus the visibility, of the scholarly texts. Quality Standards The Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation e. V. (German Initiative for Network Information, DINI) seeks to improve information and communication services and to promote and support the necessary developments. The DINI Certificate for Open Access Publication Services enables the standardised assessment of the reviewed document servers and the services they provide. DINI sees the certificate as quality control for document and publication services. The criteria on which certification is based include the visibility of the overall service; author support; the security, authenticity, and integrity of the technical system; and the long-term availability and findability of the archived documents. To date (as of November 2021), 469 repositories have been certified by DINI. In October 2019, the sixth edition of the DINI Certificate was released. Overview Lists of Repositories The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) German Repositories in OpenDOAR Austrian Repositories in OpenDOAR Swiss Repositories in OpenDOAR Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) Search Engines for Repositories OAIster BASE Google Scholar References Further Reading Demetres, M. R., Delgado, D., & Wright, D. N. (2020). The Impact of Institutional Repositories: A Systematic Review. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 108 (2), 177–184. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2020.856 ....