State dossiers

The oa.atlas shows the status quo of open access- and open science-related activities in Germany. It consists of two components: The state dossiers (texts) summarise information on the open access development, its current status and strategies in a federal state and in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Information on the strategies and services of the scientific institutions (data) can be accessed in the oa.atlas via the open-access.network website.

This information collection represents a qualitative description of the open access transformation. The state dossiers describe historical developments and the current state, important conditions, networking actions and examples of good practice in each German federal state. The state dossiers are only available in German.

Data collection is carried out by project partner Open-Access-Büro Berlin in close coordination with contact persons of the respective ministries or networking offices within the states.

A first version of the state dossiers was published in 2022 (German only). It is available both as an online publication and as a printed brochure. A second version will be made available in a collection on the PubPub platform. Continuous updates will also be published on this platform.

An introduction to the state dossiers can be found here. In addition, a self-archiving version of the joint guideline paper of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the federal states can be found here.

Links to the respective state dossier for each federal state and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (German only):