Related Services

AuROA (Authors and Legal Certainty for Open Access)

The joint project (Duisburg-Essen University Library, Communication and Management department at the IST University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf and the Book Studies department at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) is developing modular model contracts for Open Access publications that can be freely reused.

Link: https://projekt-auroa.de/modular-model-contracts-for-open-access-books/

Bibliometric and Semantic Open Access Recommender Network (B!SON) - beta [German only]

B!SON is a recommendation service for Open Access journals. The system can determine potential journals based on titles, abstracts and references. The project, developed by the TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, University Library and the Saxon State and University Library Dresden, is intended to support the Open Access transformation.

Link: https://service.tib.eu/bison/

Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

This initiative focuses on the evaluation of published research results. DORA identifies potential for methodological development of the metrics used to date to measure the performance of academic publications.

Link: https://sfdora.org/about-dora/

FAIR Data

Academic data (e.g. research data) should be mainly open and reusable (e.g. for repositories like our OPUS publication server). The FAIR Data guidelines recommend following four core criteria for this purpose: findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability.

Link: https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/

oa.finder — A tool for searching scholarly publication venues - beta

The BMBF-funded project open-access.network (Bielefeld University Library) provides an service that recommends possible publication venues, considering publication type, institution and author role. Our transformative agreements can also be taken into account in the tool.

Link: https://finder.open-access.network/

Open Resources Campus NRW (ORCA.NRW) [German only]

ORCA.NRW (DH.NRW) is a collaborative teaching and learning service provided by public universities, universities of applied sciences (HAWs) and universities of art and music in North Rhine-Westphalia. The portal provides teaching materials that can be freely reused (Open Educational Resources) as an example.



Link: https://www.orca.nrw/

Open Science Podcasts: 7 + 3 Tips for Your Ears

The ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics provides an overview of podcasts on the topic of Open Science. The content of all 10 podcasts is available, with 7 of them still being updated regularly.

Link: https://www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2021/02/open-science-podcasts-7-3-tips-for-your-ears/

ORCID

The Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is an internationally established persistent identifier. The ORCID links people from the academic and research community with, for example, their published research results, employment data, projects or funding. More and more academic publishers as well as e.g. the elan-Protal (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V.) are adopting this identifier.

Link: https://orcid.org/

Plan S for Shock: Science. Shock. Solution. Speed. (Robert-Jan Smits and Rachael Pells)

The monograph compares the current status of Open Access publishing with the objectives of the Plan S initiative. Robert-Jan Smits (architect of Plan S) identifies the need to make research information directly and freely accessible, also in view of pandemics such as COVID-19.

Link: doi: 10.5334/bcq

Rechtsfragen bei Open Science: Ein Leitfaden von Dr. Till Kreutzer und Dr. Henning Lahmann [German only]

The guide sets out the legal aspects regarding Open Science in the context of digitalization. Intellectual Property Rights, Open Access and research data are also subject of the analyses.

Link: urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-3-2112

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science

In this recommendation, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) promotes international Open Science standards. One goal of the recommendation is to enable free access to academic knowledge across the world.

Link: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379949.locale=en

 

Updated: 09.11.2022.

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