Priority Initiative "Digital Information" of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany: Extending the Cooperation 2013 - 2017

"The guiding principle of this priority initiative is to equip scientists and scholars with the information infrastructure best suited to meeting their research needs. This  entails digital access to publications, research data, services, tools and virtual research and communication environments, available to the user without costs or other barriers, and the right to make use of them....The partner organisations within the Alliance agree to continue coordinating and combining their activities and resources in the following priority areas: [1] National licensing, [2] Open access, [3] National hosting strategy, [4] Research data, [5] Virtual research environments, [6] Legal frameworks....At the present time there are ad-hoc working groups for Open Access Gold and Usage Rights...."