Konsortiale Finanzierung von Open-Access-Publikationen. Eine Handreichung für Fachinformationsdienste

From DeepL's English: The following guide is based on an online workshop entitled Consortium Funding of Diamond Open Access. Opportunities for Participation for Specialised Information Services, which was organised by the Competence Centre for Licensing (KfL) project, the Licensing Sub-Working Group (U-AG) of the FID network and the KOALA-AV (Consortial Open Access Solutions Development – Expansion and Anchoring, 2023–2025) on 7 July 2025 for the specialist information services (FID).1 In this workshop, the satellite project EthnOA – Open Access in the Ethnological Subjects of the FID Social and Cultural Anthropology, the FID Communication and Media Studies (FID Media), the FID Sociology and the joint project edu_consort_oa of the FID Education and Educational Research opportunities for participation in the consortium financing of APC-free open access publications. In addition, there was an introduction to the KOALA model for consortium financing of quality-assured APC-free open access publications, developed by the Technical Information Library (TIB) in Hanover and the Communication, Information and Media Centre (KIM) at the University of Konstanz, which the Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) in Dresden since 2024. KOALA-SLUB provided its expertise to support the workshop. The guide compiles and answers questions from participants that were asked and discussed in breakout sessions during the workshop.