This paper describes the different forms of and tries to give reasons for international scientific collaboration in general. It focuses on eleven countries in the Asia-Pacific region by evaluating their national research output with the help of bibliometric indicators in particular.Over two million journal articles published by these countries between 1998 and 2007 in ISIlisted periodicals are analyzed. Discipline-specific publication and citation profiles reveal national strengths and weaknesses in the different research domains. The exponential increase in publication output by China over the last few years is astonishing, but in terms of visibility, i.e. citation rates, China cannot keep up with leading science nations, remaining below the world average. A discipline-specific analysis shows that Chinese authors took an active part in more than a quarter of all articles and reviews published in the field of materials science in 2007, while their contribution to medical research is very low. Co-publication networks among the eleven countries are generated to observe the development of cooperation bonds in the region. Applying Salton's measure of international collaboration strength, an above-average strengthening of scientific collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region can be observed.
Open access to the results of publicly funded research is one of the European Commission's avowed goals. Yet how far is open access actually realised in practice? This article explores the issue based on a subsection of the projects financed by the EU: research coordination projects. The results of these projects rarely appear in international journals that implement peer review processes; instead, they are mainly published as grey literature and therefore pose a special challenge in terms of open access. Following explanation of the theoretical conditions for open access applying to EU-funded research projects, 26 international research coordination projects with Asian participation that constitute part of the 7th Framework Programme for Research (FP7) are analysed. The difficulties encountered when implementing open access for these projects are outlined. Finally, the authors describe a possible solution which could guarantee straightforward access to the results of research coordination projects in the long run. Freier Zugang zu den Ergebnissen von öffentlich finanzierter Forschung ist erklärtes Ziel der Europäischen Kommission. Doch inwieweit wird Open Access in die Praxis umgesetzt? Dieser Artikel geht der Frage am Beispiel eines Teilbereichs EU-finanzierter Projekte nach: Projekte der Forschungskoordination. Ergebnisse solcher Projekte werden selten in internationalen Zeitschriften mit peer-review Verfahren veröffentlicht, sondern hauptsächlich als Graue Literatur, und stellen daher mit Blick auf Open Access eine besondere Herausforderung dar. Nach einer Erläuterung der theoretischen Rahmenbedingungen für Open Access innerhalb EU-finanzierter Forschungsprojekte, werden 26 Vorhaben der internationalen Forschungskoordination mit asiatischer Beteiligung innerhalb des 7. Forschungsrahmenprogramms (FP7) analysiert und anhand dieser die Schwierigkeiten bei der Umsetzung von Open Access skizziert. Anschließend zeigen die Autoren einen möglichen Lösungsweg auf, um einen langfristigen und unkomplizierten Zugang zu Ergebnissen aus Projekten der Forschungskoordination zu sichern.
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