COAR Annual Meeting 2022: The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholary Communications
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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....
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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....
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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...
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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....
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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....
