More Information
Here we provide recommendations for further external information services and list some initiatives and projects as well as declarations, strategies and guidelines.
External information services
Information Platform Open Access
Open Access Office Berlin
Podcasts
Videos
Books und websites
Initiatives and projects
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an international association of academic and research libraries founded in 1997 with the aim of promoting open access.
OA2020 is an initiative with the aim of a large-scale open access transformation.
Plan S is a project for fostering open access to scientific results that have been produced with public funding. The project is supported by the so-called cOAlition S, an association of 18 national and international research funding institutions, the European Commission and the European Research Council.
Declarations, strategies, guidelines
The 'big three' declarations on open access are:
- Budapest Open Access Initiative (2001)
- Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003)
- Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities (2003)
The following strategies and guidelines on open access are especially relevant to researchers of Humboldt-Universität:
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's declaration on open access (2006, German)
- Berlin Open Access Strategy (2015, German)
- Open access Strategy of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2016, German)
- Open access guidelines in the usage guidelines of the German Research Foundation (last updated 2020, see page 41; German)
- Open access guidelines of the European Commission and for Horizon 2020