Funding of alternative, non-commercial Open Science infrastructures & services (OSIS) by Austrian research institutions – recommendations, criteria & models

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31263/voebm.v72i1.2279

Keywords:

Higher Education Structural Funds Project, Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA), Open Access, Open Scholarship, Open Science, Infrastructure, Services, Promotion, Funding, Austria

Abstract

The article presents a part of the results of the sub-working group "Open Access-Awareness/Non-commercial Open Access-Infrastructures and Services" of the subproject 4 "Promotion of Open Access-Publications and Alternative Open Access Publishing Models" of the project Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA). On the one hand, eligibility criteria for the evaluation of Open Science Infrastructures & Services (OSIS) are presented, which in the future can be used as an aid in the decision-making process for promoting OSIS. It also discusses funding models that could be used in Austria to ensure longer-term support for OSIS, and finally provides an overview of the initiatives currently funded by Austrian institutions.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Ted Bergstrom (2017): Watching your Cards in the Big Deal. Keynote im Rahmen des Science Europe Workshops „Challenging the Current Business Models in Academic Publishing Accelerators and Obstacles to the Open Access Transition (Antwerpen, 26. April). http://www.scienceeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170426_WSBigDeals_Keynote_Ted_Bergstrom.pdf

Geoffrey Bilder, Jennifer Lin, Cameron Neylon (2015): Principles for Open Scholarly Infrastructures-v1. Figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1314859

Heather Joseph (2018): Securing community-controlled infrastructure: SPARC’s plan of action. College & Research Libraries News 79(8), 426. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.8.426

Michael Kleineberg, Ben Kaden (2017): Open Humanities? ExpertInnenmeinungen über Open Access in den Geisteswissenschaften. LIBREAS Library Ideas 32. http://libreas.eu/ausgabe32/kleineberg/

Vincent Larivière, Stefanie Haustein and Philippe Mongeon (2015): The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era. PLoS ONE 10(6), e0127502. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127502

Stuart Lawson, Jonathan Gray and Michele Mauri (2016): Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing. Open Library of Humanities, 2(1), e10. http://doi.org/10.16995/olh.72

David W. Lewis (2017): The 2.5 % Commitment. Indianapolis: IUPUI ScholarWorks. https://doi.org/10.7912/C2JD29

David Lewis, Lori Goetsch, Diane Graves & Mike Roy (2018): Funding community controlled open infrastructure for scholarly communication: The 2.5 % commitment initiative. College & Research Libraries News 79(3), 133. https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.79.3.133

Cameron Neylon (2017): Sustaining Scholarly Infrastructures through Collective Action: The Lessons that Olson can Teach us. KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies 1(1), 3. http://doi.org/10.5334/kula.7

Alejandro Posada, George Chen (2017): Preliminary Findings – Rent Seeking by Elsevier. Publishers are increasingly in control of scholarly infrastructure and why we should care – A Case Study of Elsevier. http://knowledgegap.org/index.php/sub-projects/rent-seeking-and-financialization-of-the-academic-publishing-industry/preliminary-findings/

Thomas L. Reinsfelder & Caitlin A. Pike (2018): Using Library Funds to Support Open Access Publishing through Crowdfunding: Going Beyond Article Processing Charges. Collection Management 43(2), 138-149. http://doi.org/10.1080/01462679.2017.1415826 (Preprint online unter: https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/concern/generic_works/s1r66j3596)

Roger C. Schonfeld (2018): Big Deal – Should Universities Outsource More Core Research Infrastructure? New York: Ithaka S+R. https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.306032

Roger C. Schonfeld (2018): Workflow Lock-in – A Taxonomy. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2018/01/02/workflow-lock-taxonomy/

SPARC (2014): HowOpenIsIt? A Guide for Evaluating the Openness of Journals. https://sparcopen.org/our-work/howopenisit/

Downloads

Published

2019-05-17

How to Cite

Ferus, A. and Reckling, F. (2019) “Funding of alternative, non-commercial Open Science infrastructures & services (OSIS) by Austrian research institutions – recommendations, criteria & models”, Communications of the Association of Austrian Librarians, 72(1), pp. 89–105. doi: 10.31263/voebm.v72i1.2279.