The open-access.network project, in collaboration with the Digital Focus Group Self-archiving, has produced the guide for employees in publication services In wenigen Schritten zur Zweitveröffentlichung [German only]. The document is intended to support the establishment and expansion of a self-archiving service. It is primarily aimed at all those who work in the field of self-archiving or who deal with this topic as part of library training, for example. The guide can be read and downloaded from Zenodo at the following link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10489037.
Metadata, copyright and co. in secondary publication law
Many academic libraries offer a self-achiving service to members of their own institution. Self-archiving is, for example, a document that has already been published in Closed Access and is published a second time in Open Access. This variant is also known as Green Open Access. It also includes the second publication of an open access publication for long-term archiving in a repository. There are many questions in connection with the publication process of self-archivingn: How is supplementary metadata used? How can the legal review be carried out? The new guide provides step-by-step instructions for staff at service centres to answer all these questions.
Further information:
- The Digital Focus Group Self-archiving was initiated as an independent community-based networking programme as part of the open-access.network project for the exchange of information on the topic of self-archiving. Further information on the focus group can be found here: https://open-access.network/en/networking/digital-focus-groups/focus-group-on-self-archiving
- The document In wenigen Schritten zur Zweitveröffentlichung. Ein Leitfaden für Mitarbeiter*innen in Publikationsservices can be downloaded from the following link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10489037