Austrian Transition to Open Access

Abstract

Die aktuelle Ausgabe der „Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare“ (Mitteilungen der VÖB) ist dem Schwerpunktthema Austrian Transition to Open Access, einem Hochschulraumstrukturmittelprojekt mit der Laufzeit 2017 bis 2020 gewidmet, an dem alle 21 öffentlichen Universitäten in Österreich beteiligt sind. Die Schwerpunktausgabe beinhaltet einen Übersichtsbeitrag zu Projekt, Beiträge zu den vier Teilprojekten sowie einen Überblick über die vom Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft geförderten Hochschulraumstrukturmittelprojekte (2014–2020), an denen Universitätsbibliotheken der öffentlichen Universitäten beteiligt waren bzw. sind.

Open Access Research Trends in Higher Education: A Literature Review

“…Several authors have focused on different aspects related to the financial difficulties linked to OA. They treat aspects such as the costs of OA for universities [22,28,30,42,54,67], strategies used by some publishers for addressing OA [2], financial challenges for implementing policies for incentivizing OA [19,21,22,[33][34][35][36]54], and transformative agreements [43].…”

“…A group of authors focused their attention on the "Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA)", authorized by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy [19,33,35,[38][39][40][41]. According to [29] in this project, running from 2017 to 2020, "the 21 public universities cooperate to promote OA through concerted measures" [29].…”

“…According to [29] in this project, running from 2017 to 2020, "the 21 public universities cooperate to promote OA through concerted measures" [29]. This initiative included four subprojects that focused on: "drafting an expert's report about the financial impact of a total adjustment to OA on a national and institutional basis, the extension of existing consortium licenses with an OA component, establishment of an OA publishing fund as well as the promotion of OA monographs and suitable OA infrastructures'' [33]. In contrast, in [34] the authors deal with "a number of questions that were discussed in the course of the drafting of a guidance document around funding conditions for publication funds in the project" (p. 1).…”