Open Access
General information about Open Access
Open Access (OA) stands for free and public access to scientific literature, as well as for securing copyrights for authors. Open Access publishing is now considered an essential part of good scientific work and is required by national and international research funding organisations.
LIV supports publishers in publishing scientific articles and university theses in Open Access:
- Participation in publishing collaborations to enable cost-effective OA publishing (especially with DEAL partner publishers Springer, Wiley, and Elsevier)
- Providing our own open access servers for the publication of university theses
- Comprehensive training and consulting services related to Open Access
Publishing collaborations: DEAL and other transformation agreements
The DEAL and other transformation agreements are intended to contribute to the Open Access transformation. This means that the agreements are intended to help bring about a complete transition of scientific publishing to Open Access.
The DEAL project (also known as the DEAL Consortium) was established to advance this goal. It deals with the negotiation, conclusion and implementation of transformative Germany-wide Open Access agreements with the three largest scientific publishers (Elsevier, Springer, Wiley).
Universities participating in these agreements receive various benefits:
- Reading access to the journal portfolio of the associated publisher
- Publication of OA publications under specified conditions
- Reduced publication fees
Open Access Server for academic papers
- DHBW
- HHN
- TUM Heilbronn
Members of DHBW and DHBW CAS can find detailed information about Open Access (OA) and OA publications on the website of the Competence Centre for Repository and Open Access Services (ROAD@DHBW).
- Publishing cooperation (Open Access publishing with DEAL)
- DHBW repository (Open Access server for publications)
- Training & consulting (publication support services)
Predatory Publishing
Under the guise of being a reputable Open Access publisher, unscrupulous publishers offer publishing services in exchange for publication fees, but fail to deliver these services or deliver them inadequately. This is known as predatory publishing.
To avoid this, the following criteria can be used for a quality-assured selection:
- Publisher: The publisher is easily identifiable and accessible.
- Process: The quality assurance process is transparent.
- Indexing: The journal is indexed in a recognised database.
- Costs: There is clear information about costs and charging.
Links and brief information on OA research tools/helpful websites
- BASE
- Bison
- DOAJ
- EZB
- OA.network
- OA.finder
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
- Search engine for scientific web documents
- Index with over 400 million references
- Approximately 60% of these are OA