Modulare Musterverträge für Open Access Buchpublikationen (Model Contracts for Open Access Book Publishing) | AuROA – Authors and Legal Certainty for Open Access

Open Access publications are easier to find, spread faster, and offer free access to knowledge. However, there often is a lack of standards. The joint research project „AuROA – Authors and Legal Certainty for Open Access“ aims to change this for literature in the German humanities and social sciences. Authors, publishers, book traders, libraries and other actors in publishing are being brought together. We collect the necessary and possible services in the publishing process in a catalog of services and discuss quality criteria of scientific publications. Out of this, modular model contracts for open access publications will be developed. These will be published and freely available on this website in summer 2022.

As this project focuses mostly on publications in German(y), many of its publications will be in German. Please feel free to nevertheless contact us in English if you have any questions, would like to exchange knowledge or simply connect with us. Please use the „Kontakt“-form linked in the top right corner by filling in your name, e-mail-address and message („Nachricht“).

The project is led by the Duisburg-Essen University Library, working jointly with the Communication and Management department at the IST University of Applied Sciences (IST) in Düsseldorf as well as the the Book Studies department at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU).