Open Access in der Wissenschaft | Die Mediævistinnen

From Google Translate: "In the discussion about the VG Wort controversy   , more and more central questions arose, as not only with authors' rights and publishers, but also generally with publicly funded research results. In January, once again, Deutschlandfunk invited me to discuss with Ulrich Herb and Christoph Schönberger in the series 'Who Owns Knowledge?'.

The dispute between the scientific community and the specialized publishers

To the end of our series on scientific publishing , we ask: What alternatives are already available for the established journals? Do the specialist publishers still have an authorization with their high subscription costs? Should publicly funded research be freely available?

As a follow-up, I have led a dialogue with Andreas Schiel at digihuman.org, which goes a step further and, in addition to publicity, also reflects on the social impact of possible forms of open access.

Free access to all research results?

Who vouches for the quality of science in the digital age?

Equalization of knowledge and science through  open access ?

Hopefully, many such discussions will be held in the future. In the case of fictional works, too, I am inspired by Open Culture's pioneer Cory Doctorow, who has long been convinced that one can publish good content without publishing houses. If one decides to work with a publisher, this should be a cooperation that favors author, publisher and reader. Unfortunately, this is not the case with many scientific publishers."