tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hubs/oatp/user/VuK_OA_BB/atom 2024-06-28T03:07:59-04:00 TagTeam social RSS aggregrator tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/11680995 2024-06-28T03:07:59-04:00 2024-06-28T03:07:59-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em>  (Germany) about a joint workshop organised by the three state initiatives Open Access Büro Berlin (OABB), openaccess.nrw  and us as the Brandenburg Open Access Vernetzungs und Kompetenzstelle (VuK) on the objectives, challenges and opportunities of a state-specific monitoring in relation to the federal state  of Open Access and, in particular, publication activities. Today the report on the event was published today in the Open Access Blog Berlin.  </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/10770131 2024-04-18T14:06:44-04:00 2024-05-03T03:37:13-04:00 Sharon Hundehege CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em>  (Germany) about our work with the open access community in the state of Brandenburg shows, there is a great need to make the funding and infrastructure for open access books more sustainable. At last year's Open Access Days, Tobias Steiner won the prize for best design for his poster "Thoth Open Metadata Management and Distribution Service for OA Books". At the latest, this attracted enormous attention to his Thoth Open Metadata project. Reason enough for us to find out what's behind it. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/10503641 2024-04-05T03:51:18-04:00 2024-04-05T03:51:18-04:00 Yan Heinemann CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em>  (Germany) about  the five-day workshop "How is a scientific journal created?" from February 19 to 23, 2024, where participants learned the basics of scientific publishing and the processes involved in producing a scientific journal.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/10503640 2024-04-05T03:47:15-04:00 2024-04-05T03:47:15-04:00 Sharon Hundehege CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em>  (Germany) about 36th Open Access Small Talk focused on the <a href="https://openrewi.org/kidrewi/">KidRewi</a> research project and took the opportunity to introduce itself to participants from various institutions. The VuK not only provides technical support for KidRewi, but also acts as a networking center for coordination with other open access projects in Brandenburg.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/10503639 2024-04-05T03:44:30-04:00 2024-04-05T03:44:30-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em>  (Germany) about a comprehensive monitoring report in collaboration with the Brandenburg Open Access Monitoring Working Group. This marks a key milestone in the implementation of Brandenburg's Open Access strategy from 2019.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/10503638 2024-04-05T03:41:41-04:00 2024-04-05T03:41:41-04:00 Anita Eppelin CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em>  (Germany) about the <a href="https://open-access-brandenburg.de/fonds/">Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the State of Brandenburg</a> is entering its fourth year. Launched in September 2021, the funding instrument of the <a href="https://mwfk.brandenburg.de/mwfk/de/">Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK)</a> was initially set up as part of a pilot phase until 2023. Like the Networking and Competence Center, it has now been extended beyond this date.</p> <p>This blog post summarizes the most important facts and figures, findings and experiences from the period from 01.09.2021 to 31.12.2023.</p> <p> </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/9792589 2024-02-09T06:29:50-05:00 2024-02-09T06:29:50-05:00 Philipp Falkenburg CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg  (Germany) about an interesting interview with Simone Fulda, President of Kiel University and Head of the Commission for Research Information in Germany (KFid) on the Core Data Set for Research (KDSF) was published a year ago.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/9792588 2024-02-09T06:24:06-05:00 2024-02-09T06:24:06-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg  (Germany) about a traditional guiding argument of the Open Access movement is that the free accessibility of scientific publications also increases the probability of citation on average. A recent study in Scientometrics, reported on by Science, now proves that this is indeed the case. In a bibliometric analysis of publication data from 2010-2019 (19 million publications with 420 million citations), the citation advantage of open access journals over closed access titles was once again confirmed.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/9792587 2024-02-09T06:14:17-05:00 2024-02-09T06:14:17-05:00 Sharon Hundehege CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg  (Germany) about an article for Nature from December 2023. The development sheds light on the associated challenges from the perspective of the role that archivists and librarians can play in realizing the goal of established direct open access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/9792586 2024-02-09T06:07:41-05:00 2024-02-09T06:07:41-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em>  (Germany) about a central topic in the open access discourse in 2023, at least in German-speaking countries. The issue of scholar-led publishing. Best practice examples and the experiences of stakeholders who are trying to do just that are extremely helpful for the development and acceptance of such solutions.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/9193274 2023-12-13T10:25:41-05:00 2023-12-13T10:25:41-05:00 Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em>  (Germany) about the addition to the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Declaration, 2023 also had a ten-year anniversary to celebrate. In September 2013, Christian Fuchs and Mariso Sandoval published their essay The diamond model of open access publishing, which is still widely cited today and is considered the first influential key document on the topic of Diamond Open Access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/9193273 2023-12-13T10:22:06-05:00 2023-12-13T10:22:06-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em>  (Germany) about following the agreements with the publishers Wiley and Springer Nature in 2017, it did not seem certain for a long time that the DEAL project would also reach an agreement with Elsevier, the third dominant major commercial scientific publisher. After all, negotiations had been very tough since 2016. Some people were therefore somewhat surprised to hear in September of this year that, after seven years, an agreement had apparently been reached between the DEAL consortium and Elsevier.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/9193272 2023-12-13T10:19:35-05:00 2023-12-13T10:19:35-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em>  (Germany) about Scholar-led publishing as one of the main trends of 2023, at least in the open access discourse. A few weeks ago, in the context of cOAlition S, a report or rather a proposal entitled "Towards responsible publishing" (PDF download) was published, which, based on a rather sobering review of five years of experience with the Plan S principles, outlines a very offensive, actually radical perspective for a scholar-led system of scholarly communication.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/9193132 2023-12-13T10:15:45-05:00 2023-12-13T10:15:45-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em>  (Germany) about the next strategic step towards open science and open research. On November 15, the academic committees of the four universities participating in the Berlin University Alliance (BUA), Freie Universität Berlin (FU), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), Technische Universität Berlin (TU) and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, confirmed the mission statement for Open Science presented in May 2023. This provides the city's major universities with a standardized guideline for action in this area.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8979442 2023-10-27T02:30:41-04:00 2023-10-27T08:21:06-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg (Germany) about six leading figures in OA development in Berlin and Brandenburg came together to reflect on three layers of time in the OA movement: the past 20+ years, the challenges of the present, and the visions for a future of OA until, according to the setting of the time window, 2040.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8979441 2023-10-27T02:25:18-04:00 2023-10-27T08:21:56-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg (Germany) about: When people think of Open Access, they often think of transformative agreements. This is probably also the case in Sweden, but in addition, alternatives are now being specifically considered there and are taking the form of a working group called "Beyond Transformative Agreements", as reported in a recent press release from Stockholm University, among others.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8358524 2023-08-24T11:28:36-04:00 2023-08-24T11:28:36-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>This week someone sent me a reference to an article from Nature magazine in which the magazine's then European correspondent, Declan Butler, reported on the debate on the "open access" phenomenon in the UK. The year is - again - 2004 and a Nature debate on the question of access to scientific literature ("access to literature") was just a few weeks ago.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8358523 2023-08-24T11:25:12-04:00 2023-08-24T11:25:12-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>A few days ago - on June 6 and 7, 2023 - the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference took place at the Harnack-Haus in Berlin-Dahlem. Like the previous editions, the event for international "Stakeholder und Entscheidungsträger der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation" was organized by the OA2020 initiative of the Max Planck Digital Library and Max Planck Society. In a way, the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Declaration gave the event a special idealistic weight and accordingly also and again took place at the historic location.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8358518 2023-08-24T11:20:16-04:00 2023-08-24T11:20:16-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>This week, at the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference of the Max Planck Society, the current guidelines of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) were presented. For us as the Vernetzungs und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg, as a state initiative for Open Access, the document entitled Open Access in Germany is naturally very relevant and an important addition to the 2019 Open Access Strategy of the State of Brandenburg. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/8358507 2023-08-24T11:15:13-04:00 2023-08-24T11:15:13-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>In the mid-2010s, I was involved in a small DFG project at Humboldt University on future forms of publishing in the humanities. In addition to networked enhanced publishing and the publication of research materials or research data, its facets included open publishing under open access conditions. This is one of the reasons why I can easily compare the attitudes towards Open Access seven or eight years ago and today. One thing is clear: when it comes to open access, a lot has moved in the direction of this approach. This is also evident when re-reading the statements on open access in the humanities collected in the project's study.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/7565526 2023-05-11T05:53:56-04:00 2023-05-11T14:18:07-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

Some OA supporters may find it somewhat surprising when criticism of OA cost models is articulated in journals published by Elsevier. But since I have just opened a recent issue of Social Science &amp; Medicine (Volume 317, January 2023) and found an article or narrative review with the somewhat lurid title "Open access publishing - noble intention, flawed reality" (by John Frank, Rosemary Foster, Claudia Pagliari), it is nevertheless worth noting a takeaway.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/7565573 2023-05-11T05:58:03-04:00 2023-05-11T05:58:03-04:00 Anja Zeltner CC BY 4.0

<p>On Thursday, March 9, 2023, the VuK, together with the Landesfachstelle für Archive und öffentliche Bibliotheken (State Office for Archives and Public Libraries) and the Koordinierungsstelle Brandenburg.digital (Coordination Office Brandenburg.digital), was able to meet with State Secretary Dünow at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences for a technical discussion lasting just under three hours.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/7565525 2023-05-11T05:50:56-04:00 2023-05-11T05:50:56-04:00 Philipp Falkenburg, Heike Stadler, Miriam Zeunert CC BY 4.0

<p>This publication deals with the topic of Open Access monitoring in Brandenburg. The 2019 Open Access Strategy of the state of Brandenburg mandated university libraries to monitor their Open Access activities at the publication level. The Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg coordinates together with the AG Open Access Monitoring (Brandenburg) the development and implementation of a state-wide Open Access monitoring.</p> <p>In addition, the possibility of evaluating data from the Deutsche Bibliotheksstatistik (DBS) for the purpose of enriching the OA monitoring is explained and an evaluation of the data field 151.1 is carried out on a national level.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/7565572 2023-05-11T05:56:21-04:00 2023-05-11T05:56:21-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>As I recently discovered, ironically enough, at the journal display of the library of the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, the Journal of Empirical Cultural Studies published by Waxmann-Verlag has ventured the step towards Open Access. And in its issue 1/2 2022, the journal organizes this move very nicely with an "Open Access Forum".</p> <p>There, for example, Melanie Völker and Beate Plugge from Waxmann-Verlag explain challenges for publishers that, as expected, become apparent in the financing of OA publications. They are critical of more established funding models such as Article Processing Charges (APC) and national licenses because, on the one hand, APC reproduce inequalities and, on the other hand, national licenses tie up acquisition funds in libraries to a great extent, "which means that only limited funds are available for further OA publications or even the acquisition of e-books from independent publishers." (p. 137) DEAL exacerbates the situation for these publishers and the publishers, as the latter are required to publish OA with the houses with which the contracts were signed. The authors prefer another variant: "Crowdfunding or discipline-oriented [...] or institutional funding models are, in our opinion, the better alternative." (ibid.)</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/7565574 2023-05-11T06:00:17-04:00 2023-05-11T06:00:17-04:00 Sophie Kobialka CC BY 4.0

<p>On February 22, 2023, the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg (VuK) held its first training session of the new year. The focus was on publishing experiences from the perspective of open access professionals.</p> <p>This review presents the contributions of the training.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/7105923 2023-03-04T07:07:40-05:00 2023-03-04T07:07:40-05:00 Thomas Arndt, Julia Boltze, Katrin Hoffmann, Ben Kaden, Frank Seeliger

<p>Thanks to various measures, the Berlin-Brandenburg region is very active and present when it comes to OA. One feature of this commitment is numerous exchange and communication formats. The virtual Open Access Week "Quo Vadis Open Science", which runs from November 2021 to March 2022, is an example of this.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/7105922 2023-03-04T07:05:25-05:00 2023-03-04T07:05:25-05:00 CC BY 4.0

<p>From Google's English:  "In these presentation slides, information on the publication fund for Open Access monographs of the State of Brandenburg is presented in a broken down manner. The presentation slides were used as part of a training course held on February 22nd, 2023 by the Networking and Competence Center Open Access Brandenburg (VuK). The applications for approved publications and the Open Access cost breakdowns by the publishers, which must be submitted as part of the application process, are particularly highlighted. </p> <p>The publication fund for Open Access monographs and the work of the VuK is financed by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg."</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/7105921 2023-03-04T06:57:51-05:00 2023-03-04T06:57:51-05:00 Anja Zeltner CC BY 4.0

<p><strong>Workshops for the further development of the Open Access Strategy Brandenburg</strong></p> <p>In contrast to the first workshop, the second workshop focused not only on OA publishing, but also looked at OA from an organizational perspective: </p> <ul> <li>At what levels in institutions does open access take place?</li> <li>Where are there challenges in communication within the institutions?</li> <li>What are the priorities of OA, in the state of Brandenburg and at the institutions, and how can the work of the VuK address these priorities?</li> </ul>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/7105920 2023-03-04T06:55:49-05:00 2023-03-04T06:55:49-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>There is a very good and for Open Access Brandenburg very important news: Since yesterday, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is one of the institutions that have signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. And because the transformation of science involves more than access to scientific publications, the parallel signing of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is another important signal.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/7105919 2023-03-04T06:52:59-05:00 2023-03-04T06:52:59-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>The topic of Open Culture is not quite the core business of the Networking and Competence Center at the moment. But we still like to keep an eye on it, at least on the sidelines. As we all know, the opening of cultural heritage collections and the utilization of digitized cultural objects by museums, for example, is part of the cultural shift toward openness. This is not only interesting for cultural enjoyment and remix practices, but of course also for so-called artistic research as well as generally from the perspective of open cultural data as open research materials. Therefore, as an Open Access takeaway, it should be briefly noted here that the Albertina Museum in Vienna is making large parts of its collections available in digital form via Europeana. In doing so, the museum is also setting an example for other museums. In an interview on the Europeana blog, Martina Pichler, head of the museum's online collections, explained the ideas behind this step.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393547 2023-01-01T07:52:33-05:00 2023-01-01T07:52:33-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post on "Jahresbericht 2022: Aktivitäten der Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg".</p> <p>The year 2022 was the first full calendar year in which the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle operated. The 2022 Annual Report provides a comprehensive overview of the VuK's activities during this year.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393546 2023-01-01T07:50:57-05:00 2023-01-01T07:50:57-05:00 Ben Kaden Anja Zeltner, Philipp Falkenburg, Anita Eppelin, Heike Stadler, Jana Rumler, Sophie Kobialka CC BY 4.0

<p>The year 2022 was the first full calendar year in which the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle operated. The 2022 Annual Report provides a comprehensive overview of the VuK's activities during this year.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393548 2023-01-01T07:55:33-05:00 2023-01-01T07:55:33-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>A look at the practice shows: Open Access has to be learned. This is more complicated than one might initially suspect. Open Access and the other areas of openness are constantly evolving, so professionals in this field have to deal with the requirement of literally lifelong learning anyway. We know from our conversations with the community that for many, that is precisely the appeal.</p> <p>It is therefore all the more important that open access and openness are also appropriately acknowledged in the training structures. This is the only way to ensure the best possible start to a career and at the same time to counteract the shortage of specialists that is also noticeable in the library sector.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393549 2023-01-01T07:57:54-05:00 2023-01-01T07:57:54-05:00 Anja Zeltner CC BY 4.0

<p>The year that is coming to an end invites us to take a closer look at individual work packages of the ernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg. One number in particular surprised us when we looked at the Brandenburg Publication Fund: 28. This is the number of OA books financed with funds from the fund since September 2021. The number of titles approved since September 2021 is even higher, at 34. The difference arises because three approved but not yet funded projects have not yet been invoiced to us, and we were able to invoice and thus fund another three titles already in 2021.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393550 2023-01-01T08:00:50-05:00 2023-01-01T08:00:50-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>There is an OA news from the field of engineering sciences that can certainly be relevant for our community or the universities in the country with engineering subjects. As part of the NFDI consortium NFDI4Ing (National Research Data Infrastructure for Engineering Sciences), a new OA journal called ing.grid is being developed at the University and State Library of Darmstadt, whose model, orientation and scope could hardly be more OA-oriented:</p> <blockquote> <p>The journal bridges a gap in engineering sciences offering a platform and recognition for sound scientific practice in generating research data, developing reusable tools for processing that data and curating the data to make it findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR).</p> </blockquote>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393555 2023-01-01T08:11:14-05:00 2023-01-01T08:11:14-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>At the beginning of November, a highly recommended and important anthology was published with the title "Doing Research - Wissenschaftspraktiken zwischen Positionierung und Suchanfrage". Edited by Sandra Hofhues (FernUniversität Hagen) and Konstanze Schütze (Universität zu Köln), it deals with current influences, modes of action, and frameworks in science with a focus on subjects in education, social sciences, media studies, and the arts. The book was published in the series "Science Studies" by transcript, where it is available not only in print but also in digital form and open access under a CC-BY license, i.e. with full reusability.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393554 2023-01-01T08:09:45-05:00 2023-01-01T08:09:45-05:00 Team OA Brandenburg CC BY 4.0

<p>The members of the Open Access Monitoring Brandenburg working group met for the first time in November 2022. In four interviews, some of the participants briefly introduce themselves and give a brief insight into their activities.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393553 2023-01-01T08:09:03-05:00 2023-01-01T08:09:03-05:00 Team OA Brandenburg CC BY 4.0

<p>The members of the Open Access Monitoring Brandenburg working group met for the first time in November 2022. In four interviews, some of the participants briefly introduce themselves and give a brief insight into their activities.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393552 2023-01-01T08:05:15-05:00 2023-01-01T08:05:15-05:00 Team OA Brandenburg CC BY 4.0

<p>The members of the Open Access Monitoring Brandenburg working group met for the first time in November 2022. In four interviews, some of the participants briefly introduce themselves and give a brief insight into their activities.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393551 2023-01-01T08:03:13-05:00 2023-01-01T08:03:13-05:00 Team OA Brandenburg CC BY 4.0

<p>The members of the Open Access Monitoring Brandenburg working group met for the first time in November 2022. In four interviews, some of the participants briefly introduce themselves and give a brief insight into their activities.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393556 2023-01-01T08:12:41-05:00 2023-01-01T08:12:41-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>What is less well known so far is that the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle is also represented with a channel on YouTube. It is, frankly, a small stopgap solution. We simply needed a simple digital repository for two videos that were too large to be made available directly through our content management system, and which could not be accommodated by any of the repositories in our environment. So we were able to acutely and directly identify a desideratum that we hope will be addressed as we develop infrastructures for open educational materials or Open Educational Resources (OER) in Brandenburg: Where to put the videos?</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393557 2023-01-01T08:14:25-05:00 2023-01-01T08:14:25-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Every now and then, we find a reading window in which there is some time to also read across or interdisciplinary. And accordingly for the view over the edge of our core attention, namely today into Switzerland and into the professional communication of medicine.</p> <p>In a "viewpoint" or a kind of editorial, Adriano Aguzzia and Gerhard Weber explain under the heading "Swiss Medical Weekly: Quo vadis?" why or how the journal "Swiss Medical Weekly" (until 2000 Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift), which they edit, is published in Diamond Open Access. After reading the article, one can answer the quo vadis question: From the perspective of Open Access, definitely in the right direction. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/6393558 2023-01-01T08:17:14-05:00 2023-01-01T08:17:14-05:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>The concept of transformation, and thus also of OA transformation, refers to an ongoing movement. The field of action of OA in 2022 is not comparable with that of the year of the Berlin Declaration, i.e. 2003. However, it is also no longer congruent with 2019, the year in which the state of Brandenburg presented its OA strategy, from which the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle emerged as a means of accompanying the transformation. Its establishment in 2021 will desirably lead to feedback and reinforcement effects, thanks to which OA in the state of Brandenburg will already look different towards the end of 2022 than it did in spring 2021.</p> <p>As a result, it is necessary to regularly consider where the journey is going and where the measures should lead. It is important to continuously examine target points and possible courses of action.</p> <p>The networking and competence center therefore conducts so-called strategy further development workshops on the various facets of its work. The first workshop was held on October 14, 2022, and focused on the core of OA, i.e., scientific publishing.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5697931 2022-11-01T07:59:32-04:00 2022-11-01T07:59:32-04:00 Ben Kaden Thomas Arndt, Björn Brembs, Arne Upmeier, Robert Altschaffel CC BY 4.0

<p>Starting with Open Science and data tracking of publishers and the companies behind them, the first part of the conversation covers data tracking tools and methods. Are there alternatives to the current digital infrastructure, or is the continued use of brand-preferred websites and software products a social dilemma? Does scientific culture change work? Controversy surrounds public funding of the publishing structure and parallel funding of decentralized infrastructures without data tracking. What should public funds be spent on? Do DEAL contracts help? How does market power emerge vis-à-vis monopolies? What is the value of open access? We conclude with ideas on regulations and recommendations for the future, as well as advice on avoiding data tracking and open source solutions.</p> <p>Video recording: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5446/59363">https://doi.org/10.5446/59363</a></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5697926 2022-11-01T07:43:11-04:00 2022-11-01T07:43:11-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>A note on: Georg Fischer: <em>Im Ringen um Erkenntnis und Anerkennung. Wie Rechtswissenschaftler*innen das eigene akademische Publizieren im Zuge von Open Access sehen</em>. In: <a href="https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/zeitschrift/2699-1284">Recht und Zugang</a>. 1/2022, S. 19-49. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5771/2699-1284-2022-1-19">10.5771/2699-1284-2022-1-19</a></p> <div> <div> </div> </div>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5697930 2022-11-01T07:56:52-04:00 2022-11-01T07:56:52-04:00 Ben Kaden Félix Krawatzek, Katrin Hoffmann CC BY 4.0

<p>On the Thursday of this year's Open Access Week, the series of workshop discussions Quo vadis Open Science in Berlin and Brandenburg takes a look at Open Access from the perspective of a scientist, in this case specifically the political scientist Dr. Félix Krawatzek from the Center for Eastern European and International Studies (ZOIS) in an interview with Katrin Hoffmann from the Berlin Working Group on Information (BAK). The direct occasion is the positioning of the German Research Foundation from spring 2022 in its statement "Scientific Publishing as a Basis and Shaping Field of Science Assessment". In addition, we will discuss Open Access for young researchers in political science, Open Access and science evaluation in Oxford, the British scientific culture and the role of public impact, the importance of preprints for the reception practice in research, research data publications, and a wide range of other aspects. </p> <p>Video recording: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5446/59361">https://doi.org/10.5446/59361</a></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5697925 2022-11-01T07:40:18-04:00 2022-11-01T07:40:18-04:00 Miriam Kötter, Katrin Falkenstein-Feldhoff, Ben Kaden, Linda Martin, Maxi Kindling, Maike Neufend CC BY 4.0

<p>Networking offices bring together regional actors, provide a platform for exchange on OA at the state level, and make activities related to openness in the state transparent. The offices act as multipliers, translate science and higher education policy strategies into concrete measures, and communicate requirements and needs from the state's institutions.</p> <p>In this workshop, the three networking offices Open Access-Büro Berlin (University Library, Freie Universität Berlin), Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam) and Landesinitiative openaccess.nrw will present their work. The OA speakers will report on lessons learned and particular challenges in the field of regional and national networking.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5697929 2022-11-01T07:54:14-04:00 2022-11-01T07:54:14-04:00 Ben Kaden Frank Seeliger, Linda Thomas, Axel Kaschte, Klaus Ceynowa, Björn Muschall CC BY 4.0

<p>What demands will be placed in the future on the flagship of libraries, the library management system? It began with the management of metadata (cataloging, acquisition) and user data for the lending, return and interlending of printed works, the location of media, and so on. But what do post-discovery systems look like, which no longer only track their own and specially licensed holdings, but also reflect open access publications and other open data (open science, - data) even more than before. In addition, there is the challenge of the quantity of items to be represented and, in the process, both bibliographic and, in some cases, full-text data to be referenced. What will the new reality look like? A second question concerns the mapping of information budgets or the monitoring of APC charges. In other words, how much will OA change the library SAP as a central IT tool, or will we no longer need folio, Alma, etc.?</p> <p>Video recording: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5446/59270">https://doi.org/10.5446/59270</a></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5697928 2022-11-01T07:51:31-04:00 2022-11-01T07:51:31-04:00 Ben Kaden Julia Boltze, Juliane Stiller, Violeta Trkulja CC BY 4.0

<p>The workshop discussion with Dr. Juliane Stiller and Dr. Violeta Trkulja will focus on the topic of disinformation in the field of science and what role the topic of Open Access plays in this.</p> <p>Video recording: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5446/59463">https://doi.org/10.5446/59463</a></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5697927 2022-11-01T07:48:01-04:00 2022-11-01T07:48:01-04:00 Ben Kaden Ellen Euler CC BY 4.0

<p>In this conversation, Ellen Euler and Ben Kaden reflect on the consequences and challenges of the 2019 Open Access Strategy of the State of Brandenburg and the activities of the Networking and Competence Center Open Access Brandenburg related to this strategy.</p> <p>Video recording: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5446/59360">https://doi.org/10.5446/59360</a></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5697939 2022-11-01T08:07:07-04:00 2022-11-01T08:07:07-04:00 Sophie Kobialka CC BY 4.0

<p>This newsletter is jointly produced by the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg and the Open-Access-Büro Berlin. We hope you enjoy reading it.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5697938 2022-11-01T08:04:56-04:00 2022-11-01T08:04:56-04:00 Ben Kaden Heinz Pampel CC BY 4.0

<p>As announced, the training session of the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg on the question of successful communication of Open Access and Open Research in scientific organizations took place on 06.10.2022. The fact that the focus, unlike at other of our events, was not only on universities resulted from the role and view of the invited expert. Heinz Pampel from the Open Science Office of the Helmholtz Association complemented the perspective with experiences from the field of non-university research institutions. (Set of slides Communicating Open Access. Strategies and Experiences, 10/06/2022) The Helmholtz Association perspective is necessarily specific, but contains sufficiently similar challenges that a number of the good practices mentioned are abstractable and transferable.</p> <p>To anticipate: The highlight and connecting point for the discussion was the list of "Ten Tips for Successful Open Access Communication" presented by Heinz Pampel. This alone would have been enough to fill the training session, which developed into an expert workshop. </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5697924 2022-11-01T07:36:54-04:00 2022-11-01T07:36:54-04:00 Anita Eppelin, Anja Zeltner CC BY 4.0

<p>The presentation was used at the workshop "Open Access Transformation of Scientific Book Production from the Perspective of Institutions" of the BMBF project open-access.network on 7.10.2022 to introduce the motivation and funding goals behind the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the State of Brandenburg and to provide information on the funding criteria and the current status of the funding (October 2022).</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5697933 2022-11-01T08:02:12-04:00 2022-11-01T08:02:12-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>As announced, this time the Open Access Smalltalk was influenced by the Open Access Days in Bern. At least as input. Once again, it proved true that all it takes is the right keywords to stimulate a more in-depth discussion. This discussion then developed somewhat away from the Bernese Gurten into the Brandenburgian plain. In the process, some key points became particularly apparent, the contents of which are documented below.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5629672 2022-10-17T10:32:19-04:00 2022-10-17T10:32:19-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>In the September issue of Wired magazine there is a portrait of the artist and AI researcher Amelia Winger-Bearskin and her approach of the so-called Wampum.codes. (Jackie Snow: Code of Conduct. In: Wired, Sep 2022, p.122f.) This is therefore also interesting for us, because with the concept the idea of openness and namely in the field of software and software ethics is thought one step further. The idea, which initially seems to be intended for open source software development, is somewhat reminiscent of Creative Commons licenses, but is less formalized and therefore possibly more flexible.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5629671 2022-10-17T10:31:00-04:00 2022-10-17T10:31:00-04:00 Landesinitiative openaccess.nrw; Open-Access-Büro Berlin; Open-Access-Infopoint Schleswig-Holstein; Projekt "Open Access an HAWen und PHen in Baden-Württemberg"; Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg CC BY 4.0

<p>In this poster, the Open Access networking offices and initiatives from Berlin, Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein, as well as the project "Open Access at HAWen and PHen in Baden-Württemberg" present their tasks and target groups.</p> <p>We list the importance of state initiatives and networking bodies for a federal state and how we cooperate with each other.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5629678 2022-10-17T10:34:36-04:00 2022-10-17T10:34:36-04:00 Heike Stadler CC BY 4.0

<p>Three months ago, the brochure on state dossiers of the Open Access Atlas Germany was published as the result of a collaborative project. Among other things, it mentions the framework conditions, the activities and measures to promote OA, and the networking activities of the state of Brandenburg.</p> <p>This article is to be understood as a status quo supplement to the aforementioned publication and addresses selected aspects.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5629683 2022-10-17T10:37:08-04:00 2022-10-17T10:37:08-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Anyone who has been involved in the development of Open Access for some time and remembers the early discussions about the 'colors' - especially gold versus green - as well as the general future prospects of the approach itself, will probably view the triumphant advance of Open Access in the scholarly journal sector with mixed feelings. Around 2003, for example, the Institute of Library Science at Humboldt University in Berlin encountered skeptical positions alongside the early Open Access euphoria, which received an enormous discursive and ideational boost from the Berlin Declaration: Open Access will not prevail because it cannot be financed, was one objection. Institutional repositories will only be relevant for otherwise barely publishable dissertations and incidental protocol notes, because such publication venues, which are poor in reputation, are death zones for any scientific career. Secondary publications, i.e., Green-OA, were considered an inordinate amount of work, and scientists* who have time for them may generally have too much time on their hands. </p> <p>A good twenty years later, some things have changed. Repositories may not be a successful model everywhere, but they have become a natural component of the scientific information infrastructure.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5629684 2022-10-17T10:40:09-04:00 2022-10-17T10:40:09-04:00 Jana Rumler Philipp Falkenburg CC BY 4.0

<p>This article kicks off the Open Access Monitoring for the state of Brandenburg, presents an initial analysis of the Open Access Monitor (OAM) data, and puts it in context.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5629670 2022-10-17T10:28:12-04:00 2022-10-17T10:28:12-04:00 Ben Kaden Philipp Falkenburg CC By 4.0

<p>On August 26, 2022, the 25th edition of the so-called Open Access Smalltalk of the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg took place. In order not to let this fade away without a trace with the actual event, we provide the slide set of the input. And since the slides are not self-explanatory in every case, this documentation offers a few more key points on the presentation narrative.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5157151 2022-09-09T07:48:05-04:00 2022-09-09T09:06:14-04:00 Philipp Falkenburg CC BY 4.0

This blogpost covers the basics of the OpenAlex service launched at the beginning of the year. It answers the question of what OpenAlex is in the first place, sheds light on the background to its creation and attempts an initial classification for the current expansion status. Another focus is the underlying model of global science and its components described with metadata as so-called entity types.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/5157378 2022-09-09T07:50:50-04:00 2022-09-09T07:50:50-04:00 Anita Eppelin, Anja Zeltner, Philipp Falkenburg CC BY 4.0

<p>Since fall 2021, members of the eight universities in the state of Brandenburg have had access to a state-wide publication fund for OA monographs. This is provided by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK), coordinated by the Brandenburg Open Access Network and Competence Center (VuK), and further developed together with the Brandenburg Open Access Monographs Publication Fund Working Group.</p> <p>The poster presents funding goals and criteria as well as the workflow between authors, VuK, libraries, and publishers. In addition, the poster provides a numerical overview of the fund's use to date and presents challenges and experiences from one year of publication fund operation (as of June 2022).</p> <p>Design: Nora Ancheva, https://www.togettr.de </p> <p>Supported with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4693495 2022-08-04T02:28:43-04:00 2022-08-04T02:28:43-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>As already briefly reported in <a href="https://open-access-brandenburg.de/open-access-update-berlin-brandenburg/">Open Access Update Berlin &amp; Brandenburg 2/2022</a>, the Networking and Competence Center organized a workshop in early June 2022 at which the Open Access community was invited to address the aspects of the <a href="https://bravors.brandenburg.de/gesetze/bbghg">Brandenburg Higher Education Act (BbgHG-E)</a> that are currently being revised and that are relevant to Open Access. The results of this workshop were submitted to the <a href="https://mwfk.brandenburg.de/mwfk/de/">Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK)</a>. At this point, we would like to once again name the five focal points that emerged as particularly central in the workshop.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4693496 2022-08-04T02:32:40-04:00 2022-08-04T11:51:21-04:00 Fabian Rack CC BY 4.0

This presentation was given as part of a training session on CC licenses and Open Access for the Networking and Competence Center Open Access Brandenburg on June 28, 2022. The slides serve to clarify basic conditions for Open Access and introduce the various Creative Commons licenses. Examples are also given to explain how the licenses can be used in practice and what needs to be observed.

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4489825 2022-07-07T14:08:37-04:00 2022-07-08T08:27:53-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Abstract of <em>Gerhard Schneider: Open Access als Prinzip wissenschaftlicher Publikation. Open Access als Prinzip wissenschaftlicher Publikation. Historical Social Research, Vol. 29 — 2004 — No. 1, 114 – 122. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.29.2004.1.114-122.</em></p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4489820 2022-07-07T13:55:50-04:00 2022-07-08T08:37:48-04:00 Anja Zeltner, Anita Eppelin CC BY 4.0

<p>The presentation describes - after introductory information on Open Access and the Brandenburg Open Access Network and Competence Center - the funding goals and conditions as well as the application workflow and the current status of applications (June 2022) of the Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the State of Brandenburg. </p> <p>The presentation was created for an information event for university staff of the state of Brandenburg on 29.6.2022.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4489824 2022-07-07T14:05:27-04:00 2022-07-08T08:29:41-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>For a few weeks now, Heike Stadler has been joining the team at the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg. We are very pleased about this and would like to give her the opportunity to briefly share her perspectives on the topic of Open Access.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4489823 2022-07-07T14:03:08-04:00 2022-07-08T08:32:35-04:00 Sophie Kobialka CC BY 4.0

<p>This newsletter is produced jointly by the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em> and the <em>Open Access Office Berlin</em>. We hope you enjoy reading it.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4489822 2022-07-07T14:00:21-04:00 2022-07-08T08:36:28-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>There is a new and very comprehensive position paper from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) that should also be relevant to our target group, at least on the discursive level. Since we know that not all of our target group will find the time to read it, a first impression and some accompanying considerations shall be recorded here as OA takeaways.</p> <p>„AG Publikationswesen“ des DFG-Präsidiums: Wissenschaftliches Publizieren als Grundlage und Gestaltungsfeld der Wissenschaftsbewertung. Herausforderungen und Handlungsfelder. Positionspapier. (PDF) Bonn: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2022.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4693497 2022-08-04T02:37:24-04:00 2022-08-04T02:37:24-04:00 Hannah Böhlke CC BY 4.0

<p>Secondary publications are a science-related service at many universities, often embedded in the institution's Open Access strategy. The libraries specifically responsible for the design of secondary publication services repeatedly discuss possibilities for professionalization, their opportunities and limitations at various specialist events. However, the extent to which services have been developed in Germany to date has not yet been systematically investigated. In this work, it is first considered which services exist in this area. In addition, a categorization is developed and the classification of the existing services into expansion stages is proposed. Furthermore, difficulties that institutions may face with regard to these services are presented and possible solutions are outlined.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4241494 2022-06-02T12:06:52-04:00 2022-06-02T12:06:52-04:00 Ben Kaden CC-By 4.0

<p>Open access and books - they go well together. Just how well was demonstrated by the event marking the first anniversary of the Brandenburg Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs on May 18, 2022, because fortunately the funding structure is at a point in its development where there is less need to talk about it, but where its results speak for themselves. A stack of books is at hand, in fact - because most of the funded titles also appear in parallel in a print edition.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4241489 2022-06-02T12:04:59-04:00 2022-06-02T12:04:59-04:00 Ben Kaden CC-By 4.0

<p>Openness in cultural institutions is the topic of the hour. This is true not only for the Open GLAM community as a whole, but also for cultural institutions in Berlin and Brandenburg. Therefore, at the end of April 2022, we as a networking and competence center gladly accepted the offer to deepen perspectives on this complex in the context of a digital workshop by our colleagues from the Berlin Open Access Office. In the meantime, there is a nice report on the event: Berlin Open GLAM – Quo Vadis Landesinitiative?</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4241487 2022-06-02T12:01:56-04:00 2022-06-02T12:01:56-04:00 Rebecca M. Walter, Anja Zeltner CC-By 4.0

<p>The presentation of this training held on April 28, 2022 is aimed at OA professionals in libraries.</p> <p>The presentation will explain the stages a book goes through until it is made available via OA in a medium to large scientific publisher. To this end, the presentation shows the path of the OA book through the various departments of a publisher, starting with manuscript submission, through the review and approval process, to the production and finally distribution of the various (digital) publication formats.</p> <p>The presentation will provide an insight into the internal publishing processes and knowledge of the special conditions for Open Access in scientific publishing houses. The goal is to be able to adequately meet challenges in the communication process between libraries and publishers.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4241485 2022-06-02T11:58:58-04:00 2022-06-02T11:58:58-04:00 Rebecca M. Walter, Anja Zeltner CC-By 4.0

<p>This is a visualization of a prototypical workflow of an OA book of a medium to large scientific publisher. The illustration complements the presentation of the 04/28/2022 training on publishing workflows.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4693499 2022-08-04T02:39:22-04:00 2022-08-04T02:39:22-04:00 Karin Beckmann CC BY 4.0

<p>Article Processing Charges (APCs) have established themselves as the predominant business model with publishers for the transition from closed access to open access. The processing and monitoring of APCs, according to the initial thesis of this work, poses great challenges for university libraries, as publication numbers and costs are constantly increasing. The work surveys the current status at eight institutions by means of guided qualitative interviews with experts. Content-structuring qualitative content analysis was used to evaluate the interviews. The guiding research questions for the study were: What are the workflows for processing and monitoring APCs at German university libraries? Which tools are used? Are the systems used interoperable? What metadata is collected and where? What do libraries know about decentralized costs? The evaluation of the study shows that efficient and scalable work processes and tools are only established to a limited extent at German university libraries, but are in the process of being established. Workflows are often characterized by a lack of interoperability of the work tools used. The eight institutions organize the individual workflow steps very heterogeneously. A central invoice processing for all publication costs of a university is not common. Several work tools are usually used for processing and monitoring APCs, which vary from library to library. Very few libraries document all metadata recommended for monitoring. In addition, hardly any institutions record all metadata in a single information system. Libraries have very detailed knowledge regarding costs handled by publication funds. Here, monitoring is established and works well. The situation is different with decentralized costs, so that an overview of the total costs of publishing is often missing.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3871856 2022-04-14T04:45:16-04:00 2022-04-14T04:45:16-04:00 Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em> (Germany) wrapping up the 21st <em>Open-Access-Smalltalk</em> of the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg which took place on 1st April 2022. The topics of the event were Open Access Monitoring and the 1st birthday of the Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3871847 2022-04-14T04:38:38-04:00 2022-04-14T08:46:47-04:00 Philipp Falkenburg, Ben Kaden CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em> (Germany) about OATP. Part of the series <em>Open Access Basics</em>.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3871501 2022-04-14T04:22:29-04:00 2022-04-14T04:22:29-04:00 Anita Eppelin CC BY 4.0

<p>Blog post from the <em>Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg</em> (Germany) about the first funded and released publication of the<em> Publication Fund for Open Access Monographs of the Federal State of Brandenburg</em>​. Kamińska, Magdalena: Platte ist nicht gleich Platte : Kooperation und Konkurrenz zwischen der DDR und Polen im Wohnungsbauwesen der 1970er Jahre. DOI: 10.11584/ips.10. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3707291 2022-03-09T09:42:01-05:00 2022-03-09T09:42:01-05:00 Ben Kaden CC-BY 4.0

<p>Bericht zum II. Workshop für Vernetzungsstellen. Datum: 8. Februar 2022 Eine Herausforderung der Open-Access-Transformation liegt in der Steuerung der dazu notwendigen Maßnahmen. Unterschiedliche Ansätze sind denkbar. Eine Weile gab es die Vorstellung, die Fachcommunities könnten große Teile der Aufgabe schultern und performativ Tatsachen schaffen. Wie sich zeigte, gelingt diesen einigen sehr gut und anderen kaum. Ein andere Ansatz war, dass die Hochschulen selbst als treibende Kräfte aktiv werden. Und tatsächlich gibt es weitverbreitet Repositorien und an fast jeder Bibliothek auch eine Person, die sich mit Open Access befasst. Aber auch in diesem Bezugsrahmen zeigen sich unterschiedliche Geschwindigkeiten und mehr noch Handlungsoptionen.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3707285 2022-03-09T09:38:06-05:00 2022-03-09T09:38:06-05:00 Philipp Falkenburg CC-BY 4.0

<p>Die kürzlich gegründete <a href="https://open-access.network/vernetzen/digitale-fokusgruppen/fokusgruppe-fach-hochschulbibliotheken">Fokusgruppe “(Fach-)Hochschulbibliotheken”</a> des BMBF-geförderten Projekts open-access.network beginnt am 16. Februar 2022 mit dem ersten Treffen ihre produktive Arbeit. Wir nahmen das als Anlass, um <a href="https://open-access-brandenburg.de/open-access-network-fokusgruppen-hannah-schneider/">vorab kurz mit Hannah Schneider, Ansprechperson für diese Fokusgruppe im Projekt</a>, sowie mit Friederike Borchert, eine der Mitinitiator*innen aus der bibliothekarischen Praxis, über die Ziele und Aufgaben der <a href="https://open-access.network/vernetzen/digitale-fokusgruppen">Fokusgruppen</a> und speziell der Fokusgruppe für Fachhochschulbibliotheken zu sprechen.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3707284 2022-03-09T09:35:56-05:00 2022-03-09T09:35:56-05:00 Philipp Falkenburg CC-BY 4.0

<p>Die kürzlich gegründete <a href="https://open-access.network/vernetzen/digitale-fokusgruppen/fokusgruppe-fach-hochschulbibliotheken">Fokusgruppe “(Fach-)Hochschulbibliotheken”</a> des BMBF-geförderten Projekts open-access.network beginnt am 16. Februar 2022 mit dem ersten Treffen ihre produktive Arbeit. Wir nahmen das als Anlass, um vorab kurz mit Hannah Schneider, Ansprechperson für diese Fokusgruppe im Projekt, sowie <a href="https://open-access-brandenburg.de/open-access-network-fokusgruppen-friederike-borchert/">mit Friederike Borchert, eine der Mitinitiator*innen aus der bibliothekarischen Praxis</a>, über die Ziele und Aufgaben der <a href="https://open-access.network/vernetzen/digitale-fokusgruppen">Fokusgruppen</a> und speziell der Fokusgruppe für Fachhochschulbibliotheken zu sprechen.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4061803 2022-05-11T07:23:13-04:00 2022-05-11T07:23:13-04:00 Sebastian Nix, Ellen Euler, Mathis Fräßdorf, Reinhard Altenhöner, Klaus Tochtermann Frank Seeliger, Carolin Rau CC-BY 3.0 DE

<p>An event in the series: Quo vadis open science? A virtual Open Access Week for Berlin-Brandenburg. Open Science has far-reaching effects on the traditional business model of libraries and at the same time opens up perspectives for completely new service offerings. Under a paradigm of complete "openness" of scientific content, for example, it would be questionable what role libraries would still play in the future with regard to the provision of scientific information resources. It might then no longer be primarily a matter of selecting and acquiring - with limited funds - fee-based resources, but rather of content-driven curation, networking, and outreach services with respect to the unmanageable amount of freely available content or even ensuring its long-term availability. At the same time, funds for publication-based OA must be managed and, if necessary, raised, or infrastructures for the provision of "open" content must be operated and/or financed. Sustainable solutions for making research data available, e.g., according to FAIR principles, must also be developed that are as cost-effective as possible. With a view to these and many other services, there is also a need for advice for those working in science, not least in connection with complex legal issues. The event will examine the developments just outlined from the perspective of three very different libraries: the "Scientific Information" department at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics. The following questions will be addressed: - What services do the institutions offer to support researchers in implementing the principles of Open Science? - How does the relationship develop - e.g. with regard to the material and personnel resources used - between services that focus on the provision and, if necessary, preservation of information resources that are subject to a charge, and services, e.g. in connection with Open Access for publications or open (research) data? Can resources also be gained by critically questioning existing services? - To what extent do tools such as library management systems need to be adapted to new requirements as a result of greater openness? - What are the effects of a service portfolio that is gradually evolving in the direction of Open Science with regard to the necessary qualifications of employees? - What role does Open Science play in the strategic further development of the institutions in the medium and long term?</p> <p>DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/56578</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3509493 2022-02-08T07:53:45-05:00 2022-02-08T07:53:45-05:00

<p>Erste Open-Science-Policy an einer Universität in Deutschland</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3707279 2022-03-09T09:27:14-05:00 2022-03-09T09:27:14-05:00

<p>Die Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg und das<a href="http://www.open-access-berlin.de/about/index.html"> Open Access Büro Berlin</a> sehen sowohl räumlich als auch programmatisch als auch inhaltlich zahlreiche Schnittstellen, an denen sie regelmäßig zusammenarbeiten. Ein Ergebnis dieser Kooperation ist die regelmäßige Zusammenfassung von Nachrichten zum Open-Access-Geschehen in der Region Berlin-Brandenburg unter einem gemeinsamen Titel. Dieser lautet “Open Access Update Berlin &amp; Brandenburg” . Drei bis vier Mal im Jahr und bei Bedarf vielleicht noch häufiger veröffentlichen wir ab jetzt eine Übersicht zum Geschehen um Open Access und Open Research in unserer Region. Die aktuelle Ausgabe findet sich seit heute (10. Februar 2022) im Blog des Berliner Open-Access-Büros.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3509508 2022-02-08T08:02:02-05:00 2022-02-08T08:02:02-05:00 Ben Kaden CC-BY 4.0

<p>Aufarbeitung VuK: Positionierung zu Open Access in der Konsultationsvorlage des Transformationsplans zur Digitalisierung im Land Brandenburg</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3509853 2022-02-08T08:06:37-05:00 2022-02-08T08:06:37-05:00 Ben Kaden CC-BY 4.0

<p>Zur strukturellen Anpassung der Finanzierungsströme für Open-Access-Publikationen konnten im vergangenen Jahr (2021) wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen erstmals direkt Mittel bei der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) beantragen. Gestern erschien ein Kurzbericht zum “Antragseingang und Entscheidungen im Jahr 2021” mit den Ergebnissen zum ersten der insgesamt sechs Jahre dieses Förderprogramms.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3509509 2022-02-08T08:05:03-05:00 2022-02-08T08:05:03-05:00 Anja Zeltner CC-BY 4.0

<p>Am 26.02.2022 war die Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg (VuK) zu Gast bei dem von Prof. Dr. Rolf Däßler organisiertem informationswissenschaftlichem Masterkolloquium des Fachbereichs Informationswissenschaften der Fachhochschule Potsdam. Die Veranstaltungsreihe bietet Studierenden und Interessierten Einblicke in die informationswissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3509854 2022-02-08T08:08:47-05:00 2022-02-08T08:08:47-05:00 Ben Kaden CC-BY 4.0

<p>OA-Takeaways 3: Eine Erstlektüre der Open-Access-Empfehlungen des Wissenschaftsrates in OA Takeaways, Open Access News by Ben Kaden Am 21.01.2022 verabschiedete der Wissenschaftsrat unter dem Titel “Empfehlungen zur Transformation des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens zu Open Access” (PDF-Download) eine aktuelle Positionierung zur Open-Access-Transformation. Klar ist: Open Access ist im Kommen, wenngleich noch nicht überall gleich durchschlagend. Die Erwartung ist aber eine umfassende Durchsetzung von Open Access als Publikationsform und -norm.</p> <p>Ein Hauptmerkmal der Open-Access-Transformation betrifft die Geschäftsmodelle für die formale Aufbereitung, Qualitätssicherung und Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen. Kurz gefasst bedeutet die Verschiebung: Finanziert wird nicht mehr die Rezeption über den Einkauf von wissenschaftlicher Literatur, sondern die Produktions-, Verbreitungs- und Vorhalteschritte der wissenschaftlichen Literatur.. Man nennt es auch: pay-to-publish.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4061804 2022-05-11T07:26:26-04:00 2022-05-11T07:26:26-04:00 Thomas Mutschler, Detlef Büttner, Kathrin Ganz, Dagmar Schobert, Miriam von Maydell, Maike Neufend, Frank Seeliger, CC-BY 3.0 DE

<p>An event in the series: Quo vadis open science? A virtual Open Access Week for Berlin-Brandenburg. In the library world, we like to argue about the pricing of open access journals like articles: How much can it cost? Until recently, the funding agency DFG set a limit of a maximum of two thousand euros per article for APC fees for publication funds. The circumstance is interesting in that, in addition to the classic publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, etc. via so-called "Publish &amp; Read" models that charge quite high prices (e.g., for the DEAL contracts), the full-cost calculations of university-owned publishers, series, journals, articles, or scientific organizations are significantly lower. For DEAL, the white paper "Nationwide conversion to Open Access possible" was decisive, also with regard to the transformation costs. According to this, there are already sufficient resources in the market. Other calculations are based on usage analyses, of course in the case of licensing costs. So far, pricing on the part of the monopsony library has been quite restrained for commercial publishers in the context of bilaterally or consortially negotiated license agreements. We know other examples from other industries. Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess "reorganized [...] the Rover plants in England and, as head of the purchasing department, saved four billion euros by having the suppliers calculate why their products were worth less than they had previously received for them." VW's own production was cited as a comparative cost. So they knew the expenses, just as we know the costs of OA. Knowing that public institutions create open access publications more cost-effectively, can we price them similarly to the car company? Other questions follow, should the publication market be divided into commercial offerings and offerings from public bodies? Are OA publishers also good publishers, do they develop publishing programs, do they create digital added value from their repository? The discussion panel will take a closer look at the price-performance ratio and cost-benefit components for OA. Nor will it leave out the question of where publishers and open access platforms compete. How they differ as public vs. private sector bodies?.</p> <p>DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/55980</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3509855 2022-02-08T08:12:18-05:00 2022-02-08T08:12:18-05:00 Ben Kaden CC-BY 4.0

<p>Open Access ist wenig überraschend regelmäßig ein Thema auch für Sammelbände und Monografien. Die Ausgabe 3/2021 der Zeitschrift Bibliothek – Forschung und Praxis rezensierte drei für das Feld relevante Titel, die wie die Zeitschrift selbst wunderbarerweise auch Open Access erschienen sind. Hier soll daher nur kurz der Tenor zusammengefasst und auf die Originalbeiträge verwiesen werden.</p> <p>Pinfield, Stephen; Wakeling, Simon; Bawden, David; Robinson, Lyn (2020): Open Access in Theory and Practice: The Theory-Practice Relationship and Openness. 1. Aufl. London: Routledge. 120 GBP. OA über https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429276842</p> <p> </p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/4061805 2022-05-11T07:28:50-04:00 2022-05-11T07:28:50-04:00 Jürgen Christof, Jenny Delasalle, Claus Dalchow, Karin Ilg, Sebastian Nix, Klaus-Rainer Brintzinger CC-BY-ND 3.0 DE

<p>An event in the series: Quo vadis open science? A virtual Open Access Week Berlin-Brandenburg The DEAL project has made a decisive contribution to the Open Access transformation of recent years, and libraries can now look back on a wealth of experience in dealing with the DEAL contracts. As we near the end of the third year of DEAL, it is time to look at what has been achieved as well as the impact of DEAL contracts on libraries. The four presenters will provide insight into the challenges for the practical implementation of the DEAL contracts in their institutions. The following aspects, among others, will be illuminated: - What new tasks arise in connection with the administration of DEAL contracts, and what does this mean for staff*? - To what extent do the material and personnel resources spent on DEAL compete with the resources available for other OA activities (e.g., operation of publication infrastructures, implementation of the "green road")? - What financial challenges do institutions with stronger publication activities face? What role do internal resources (reallocation, university budget, university contracts) and external funding opportunities (DFG) play? - Do the different interests of the stakeholders (publishers, scientists, libraries) influence the OA transformation? - Have the OA transformation contracts already contributed to the cultural change towards a culture of openness in science and research?</p> <p>DOI: https://doi.org/10.5446/55632</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3359719 2021-11-27T12:17:47-05:00 2022-05-11T07:17:22-04:00

<p>An 87 minute panel discussion in German on the question, "Are we on the right track with commercial open access?"</p> <p>Abstract:  Are we on the right track with commercial open access? Discussion with Dr. Jens Peter Gaul (Secretary General of the University Rectors' Conference), Prof. Dr. Thomas Grebel (Institute for Economics at the Technical University of Ilmenau), Dr. Ulrich Herb (Head of the Electronic Publications Department at the Saarland University and State Library) and Dr. Anja Oberländer (Head of the Open Science Team at the Communication, Information, Media Center (KIM) at the University of Konstanz). This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Christina Riesenweber (University Library of the Free University of Berlin). Open access to scientific publications is becoming more and more important. The focus is currently on open access models in the commercial sector, which are undergoing a paradigm shift.</p>

tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/3509856 2022-02-08T08:14:07-05:00 2022-02-08T08:14:07-05:00 Ben Kaden CC-BY 4.0

<p>Notizen zu: Olivier Pourret, Dasapta Erwin Irawan (2021): Open access in geochemistry from preprints to data sharing: past, present and future. Preprint. In: EarthArXiv. 08.11.2021 https://doi.org/10.31223/X50059</p>