Overview of the culture and regulation of open access in Austria
Open access to scholarly communication in
Austria has developed in the 2010s largely through government initiatives. The
Austrian Science Fund and
Universities Austria [
de] launched the "Open Access Netzwerk Austria" in 2012 to coordinate country-wide efforts.[1][2] The "E-Infrastructures Austria" project began in 2014 to develop
repositories.[3] The international advocacy effort "OpenscienceASAP – Open Science as a Practice" is based in Austria.[4][5]
Repositories
There are a number of collections of scholarship in Austria housed in digital
open access repositories.[6] They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are
free to read.
Timeline
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Key events in the development of open access in Austria include the following:
2007
June: International Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Vienna.[7]
^"Digitalisation: Research, Innovation and the Work Environment", Austrian Research and Technology Report 2017, Vienna: Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy, 2017, Report under Section 8(1) of the Research Organisation Act on federally subsidised research, technology and innovation in Austria
Bruno Bauer; Kerstin Stieg (2010). "Open Access Publishing in Austria: Development and Future Perspectives". Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brașov, Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies. Romania.
hdl:
10760/15322.
B. Bauer; et al. (2015), Recommendations for the Transition to Open Access in Austria, Open Access Network Austria,
doi:
10.5281/zenodo.34079,
S2CID167956653
Tonto, Yaşar; Doğan, Güleda; Al, Umut; Madran, Orçun (2015), Open Access Policies of Research Funders: The Case Study of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), PASTEUR4OA Case Study,
doi:
10.5281/zenodo.35616
Eelco Ferwerda;
Frances Pinter; Niels Stern (2017), "Country Study: Austria", Landscape Study on Open Access and Monographs: Policies, Funding and Publishing in Eight European Countries, Knowledge Exchange,
doi:
10.5281/zenodo.815932
Walt Crawford (2018).
"Austria". Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017. US: Cites & Insights Books.