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Austria‘s Transition to Open Access

Melanie Stummvoll,

University of Vienna

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Open Access Summit�CEU, 21.03.2024

Milestones of a Longtime Partnership

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Overview - Topics & Non-Topics

Topics

  1. Austrian Research Landscape & Key Figures
  2. Time Travel – Berlin Declaration to 1st OA-Agreement
  3. Time Travel II - 1st OA-Agreement to Present Day
  4. Conclusion
  5. Q&A

Non-Topic

  • Open Science-Movement in Austria

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Austrian Higher Education System

Resource

2022 > Wissenschaft in Österreich/Statistiken

Science in Austria/Statistics�Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung (bmbwf)

https://www.bmbwf.gv.at/Themen/HS-Uni/Hochschulsystem/WIinÖ_Stat.html

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Key Figures – A Selection

Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research

  • Channels public investment
  • Funding body for digitization projects

Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

  • Funding body for basic research
  • Staunch supporter of OA and Open Science
  • Founding member of cOAlition S

Universities Austria (uniko)

  • Special interest group of public universities

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Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ)

  • Formed in 2005
  • 67 member institutions
  • Bottom-up organisation - no central funds

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Timeline 2003-2013

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Timeline 2014-2024

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Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ)

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Transformative Agreements:

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Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ)

  • Formed in 2005
  • 67 member institutions
  • Bottom-up organisation - no central funds

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Timeline 2014-2024

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Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA)

TP1

Impact analysis of the transition�to Open Access

Lead: Georg Fessler, Bruno Bauer

TP2

Funding for transitional Open Access business models

Lead: Brigitte Kromp, Frank Koren-Wilhelmer

TP3

Establishment, expansion and financial support for OA publication funds

Lead: Christof Capellaro, Christian Kaier

TP4

Promotion of OA publications and alternative OA publication models

Lead: Andreas Ferus

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Austrian Transition to Open Access 2 (AT2OA2)

Altmetrics (TP5)

Investigating the visibility of OA publications using alternative metrics.

Lead Christian Gumpenberger Andreas Ferus

Transformative Agreements (TP1)

Negotiation of agreements with scientific publishers.

Lead Erika Pörnbacher� Brigitte Kromp

Austrian Datahub (TP2)

Establishment of a national Datahub for Open Access Negotiations and Monitoring.

Lead Patrick Danowski� Anna-Laetitia Hikl

Publication Costs (TP3)

Collection and analysis of

publication costs at Austrian universities.

Lead Christian Kaier� Melanie Stummvoll

Predatory Publishing (TP4)

Predatory publishing in context of the changing landscape of scientific communication.

Lead Clara Ginther� Susanne Luger

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Open-Access-Share 2015–2021

Resource: AT2OA-Datasets

  • Articles & Reviews
  • AT2OA-Affiliation (Corresponding Author)
  • Web of Science & Scopus Databases
  • FWF (Austrian Science Fund) -List of Articles

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Austrian Open Access-Monitor

https://oamonitor.obvsg.at/

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Austrian Transition to Open Access 2 (AT2OA2)

Altmetrics (TP5)

Investigating the visibility of OA publications using alternative metrics.

Lead Christian Gumpenberger Andreas Ferus

Transformative Agreements (TP1)

Negotiation of agreements with scientific publishers.

Lead Erika Pörnbacher� Brigitte Kromp

Austrian Datahub (TP2)

Establishment of a national Datahub for Open Access Negotiations and Monitoring.

Lead Patrick Danowski� Anna-Laetitia Hikl

Publication Costs (TP3)

Collection and analysis of

publication costs at Austrian universities.

Lead Christian Kaier� Melanie Stummvoll

Predatory Publishing (TP4)

Predatory publishing in context of the changing landscape of scientific communication.

Lead Clara Ginther� Susanne Luger

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Scholarly Communications in Transition

https://in-transition.at/

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Austrian Transition to Open Access 2 (AT2OA2)

Altmetrics (TP5)

Investigating the visibility of OA publications using alternative metrics.

Lead Christian Gumpenberger Andreas Ferus

Transformative Agreements (TP1)

Negotiation of agreements with scientific publishers.

Lead Erika Pörnbacher� Brigitte Kromp

Austrian Datahub (TP2)

Establishment of a national Datahub for Open Access Negotiations and Monitoring.

Lead Patrick Danowski� Anna-Laetitia Hikl

Publication Costs (TP3)

Collection and analysis of

publication costs at Austrian universities.

Lead Christian Kaier� Melanie Stummvoll

Predatory Publishing (TP4)

Predatory publishing in context of the changing landscape of scientific communication.

Lead Clara Ginther� Susanne Luger

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Q&A

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