« National-level delegations representing research communities from 38 countries across six continents, including scientists and scholars, ministries of education and research, research funders, university and research leadership, their libraries and library consortia, gathered at the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference (B16).
Hosted by the Max Planck Society, initiator of the…
« In the current scientific and political discourse surrounding the transformation of the scientific publication system, significant attention is focused on Diamond Open Access (OA). This article explores the potential and challenges of Diamond OA journals, using Germany as a case study. Two questions are addressed: first, the current role of…
« The Joint Guidelines of the Federal Government and the Länder on Open Access are an expression of the joint political commitment of the Federal Government and the Länder to firmly establish Open Access in the German science system. (…) »
« This Landscape Report presents results from the BMBF-funded joint project « Status and Perspectives of an Open Access Strategy for Germany – Open4DE ». The aim of the project is to explore routes towards a nationwide open access policy for Germany. In order to achieve this, the project analysed the discourse on…
« On 23 May 2023, the Council of the European Union adopted Council Conclusions on “High quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing”.
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) welcomes the Council Conclusions and supports the landmark recommendations they put forward for the academic publication system. (…) »
« On April 13, 2023, the Helmholtz Open Science Office, together with the joint Task Group “Open Access Transformation” of the Working Groups Open Science and Library and Information Management organized a Helmholtz Open Science Forum on Scholar-Led Publishing at Helmholtz. Around 100 people registered for participation. The high level of…
« “The use of journal impact factors and other metric indicators of research productivity, such as the h-index, has been heavily criticised for being invalid for the assessment of individual researchers and for fueling a detrimental “publish or perish” culture. (…)
As of 12 January 2023, 441 organisations (including European…
« In order to gain an overview of the current state of the discussion on PIDs and for the identification of use cases for the initiation phase of a PID service within the NFDI basic services, the working group Persistent Identifier of the Section Common Infrastructures of the…
« The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the Germany-wide collaborative project open-access.network for another three years with around 2.6 million euros. In the second phase of the project, the Information, Media Center (KIM) at the University of Konstanz will continue to be in charge. (…) »
« With its internal Open Access Strategy 2021–2025, the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany provides a framework to further shape the process of transforming the scholarly publishing system to open access.
These formulated criteria will serve as a common, action-guiding framework for actors from all science organizations – that…
