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Open Access in die Zukunftsagenda bringen

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:47:00 +0100

Christian Reinboth hat auf der von der Bundesregierung gef�hrten Onlineplattform dialog-ueber-deutschland.de den Vorschlag "Open Access in der Wissenschaft" eingebracht. Mit Klicks und Kommentaren kann man den Vorschlag unterst�tzen und ihn auf den Bildschirm der Bundesregierung im Idealfall bringen.

Mehr Infos gibt es in seinem Scienceblog.

Hier geht es direkt zum Vorschlag auf Zukunftsdialog:

https://www.dialog-ueber-deutschland.de/SiteGlobals/Forms/Vorschlaege/vorschlag_abstimmung_formular.html

Berlin 10 Open Access Conference in South Africa

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:28:00 +0100

Berlin 10 Open Access Conference to be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa

Stellenbosch University, in partnership with the Max Planck Society and the Academy of Science for South Africa, has the pleasure of announcing that the prestigious Berlin 10 Open Access Conference will be held in Stellenbosch, South Africa. This will be the first time that the Berlin Open Access Conference will be held in Africa. As is tradition with the conference, it will explore the transformative impact that open, online access to research can have on scholarship, scientific discovery, and the translation of results to the benefit of the public. The Conference will be held at the Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). STIAS is situated on the historic Mostertsdrift farm in the heart of Stellenbosch.

Conference date: 7-8 November 2012

Pre-conference date: 6 November 2012

The theme, programme, speakers and other relevant information will become available in forthcoming announcements which will also be available on the conference website (www.berlin10.org).

Online-Tutorien f�r die OpenAIRE-Compliance Ihres Repositoriums

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:18:00 +0100

Vielen d�rfte bereits bekannt sein, dass Projekte im 7. Forschungsrahmenprogramm aufgefordert sind, ihre begutachteten Publikationen �ber Repositorien Open-Access-zug�nglich zu machen. In sieben ausgew�hlten Forschungsbereichen besteht dazu sogar eine Verpflichtung, die im Grant Agreement des Projektes verankert ist ("Special Clause 39"). Das Projekt OpenAIRE unterst�tzt bei der Umsetzung von Open Access und f�hrt die Publikationen durch Harvesting zusammen. Um den praktischen Einstieg zu erleichtern, werden hierzu Ende Januar Online-Tutorien angeboten.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier.

Neue Liste f�r Fragen rund ums Repositorymanagement

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:07:00 +0100

Unter der Schirmherrschaft der DINI-Arbeitsgruppe Elektronisches Publizieren haben Stefan Buddenbohm und Paul Vierkant eine deutschsprachige Mailingliste f�r Repositorymanager gestartet: Repositorymanagement(at)DINI.de

Die DINI-Mailingliste "Repositorymanagement" soll dem interdisziplin�ren Austausch und der Vernetzung untereinander dienen und stellt eine Erg�nzung zu internationalen (bspw. JISC-Repositories) oder thematisch anders gelagerten (DINI, Inetbib) Listen dar. Thematisch soll es um alles rund um den Betrieb eines Repositories gehen:

formale, technische, bibliothekarische und rechtliche Standards
Plattformentscheidungen
Metadaten und Harvesting
Personalmanagement, Kosten, Ressourcen, Nachhaltigkeit
Workflows, Nutzerunterst�tzung, Einbettung in die hostende Institution
Compliance-Fragen, bspw. DINI, DRIVER, OpenAIRE
Open Access
alles was Ihnen im allt�glichen Betrieb als Frage/ Problem begegnet und das Sie mit Kolleginnen und Kollegen diskutieren m�chten.

Zielgruppe sind Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter von Repositorien an deutschsprachigen Forschungs- und Hochschuleinrichtungen, Dokumenten- und Forschungsdatenrepositorien, OA- und nicht OA-Repositorien, DINI-zertifizierte Repositorien, Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare sowie Technikerinnen und Techniker sowie grunds�tzlich alle an der Materie Interessierten.

Alle Informationen zur Mailingliste sind ebenfalls hier zu finden.

Helmholtz Association supports COPE

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:58:00 +0100

To facilitate straightforward funding of scientific publications in open-access journals, the Helmholtz Association, Germany's largest scientific research organisation, is now supporting the Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity (COPE).

The research centres of the Helmholtz Association have declared their support of COPE and their willingness to establish sustainable mechanisms for the payment of reasonable open-access publishing fees. It is of primary concern to the Helmholtz Association that publishing in open-access journals will be as easy for its scientists as in journals with conventional financing.

The international initiative COPE has been started by Harvard University, the MIT and other leading US universities to advance open-access publishing. In October 2011, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has been the first research institution in Germany to sign COPE.

For further information see the press release.

Austrian Science Fund (FWF) issues new guidelines for stand-alone publications

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 09:03:00 +0100

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has revised its guidelines for the funding of stand-alone publications. The new application guidelines for the FWF's Stand-Alone Publication funding programme came into force on 1 December 2011. In fundamentally revising its stand-alone publication funding policy, the FWF has responded to current developments in and demands on scientific communication.
In future, the FWF will award lump-sum grants to cover production costs, the costs of simultaneous open-access publication, editing, foreign-language editing, or translation, thereby enhancing publication quality and ensuring the broader dissemination of Austrian research results. The FWF's Translation and Foreign-Language Editing funding programme has been integrated into the new Stand-Alone Publications programme.

Moreover, from now on the FWF will provide an additional lump-sum grant of 2,000 euros to publishers who conduct their own peer reviews for the selection of publications and make these reviews available to the FWF as a basis for its funding decisions. In such cases, the time needed for the FWF to process a funding application will be reduced to ca. 2 months.
All applications submitted to the FWF after 1 December 2011 must be made on the basis of the new guidelines.

The application guidelines for the new programme can be found here:
www.fwf.ac.at/de/applications/pub-selbststaendige_publikationen.html
A brief (German-language) overview of the programme is available on
www.fwf.ac.at/de/projects/selbststaendige_publikationen.html

Austrian Science Fund (FWF) issues discussion paper on Open Access

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0100

The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has issued a discussion paper on Open Access entitled "Academic freedom presupposes the free circulation of scientific findings. The current state of Open Access".
The discussion paper is available in German only.