Open Research und Open Access an der Universität der Künste

Preprinting has soared in popularity in the life sciences and is increasingly recognised as an excellent method to share research outputs quickly and freely. While preprints have gained popularity, an important consideration is ensuring their scientific quality. This prompted the development of platforms where researchers can comment on, evaluate, and review preprints.

The first month of the new year has almost come to an end, and we at OpenCitations have dedicated these weeks after the holiday season to retrace the progress we reached as an open infrastructure throughout 2023, an activity that has become a tradition in the past few years.

Im Jahr 1995 ging mit MONARCH an der Technischen Universität Chemnitz eines der ersten institutionellen Open-Access-Repositorien in Deutschland online (Blumtritt, 2006). Anliegen dieser frühen Repositorien, die unter den Begriffen Dokumentenserver und Hochschulschriftenserver betrieben wurden, war es, Qualifikationsarbeiten zu veröffentlichen.

This week, I had some encounters with Diamond Open Access that got me thinking, especially about the connotations of “Diamond Open Access”. These include invoice-like payment requests from a Diamond Open Access platform, editors switching their journal from Hybrid to Diamond Open Access, purchase offers for Diamond Open Access journals and the intention of the German Research Foundation DFG to set up a service centre to further develop and

Wie das DEAL-Konsortium in einer Pressemitteilung meldete, wurde die notwendige Beteiligungsquote für den DEAL-Elsevier-Vertrag erreicht. Der im September 2023 abgeschlossene Vertrag tritt damit analog zu den Verträgen mit den Wissenschaftsverlagen Springer und Wiley auch offiziell in Kraft: Der Vertrag gilt nun bis zum Jahr 2028.

As 2024 begins we reflect on the achievements our team made in 2023 to meet your needs as users. The team’s efforts were concentrated on building trust in preprints, open sourcing code, as well as expanding and improving text-mining capabilities. Preprint highlights

Der Ansatz des Diamond Open Access wird bekanntlich als eine Perspektive für das Open-Access-Publizieren jenseits von Publikationsgebühren angesehen. Das große Desiderat bei der Etablierung von Diamond Journals sind oft die für die das Diamond-OA-Publizieren notwendigen Infrastrukturen und Rahmenbedingungen.

zu Mark Schroeder: Trials and Triumphs of University-Funded Open-Access Publishing: New Leadership for JESP . In: Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.

As you may have seen in the news, the British Library has been affected by a significant cyberattack. Many of the digital services it provides have gone down and stayed down for many weeks now, whilst investigations take place. I have a lot of sympathy for the BL staff. As has been observed, public services can be a relatively easy target.