Zusammenfassung: Die Diskussion über die weitere Gestaltung der Open-Access-Transformation erhielt durch die Schlussfolgerungen des Papiers „Wege des hochwertigen, transparenten, offenen, vertrauenswürdigen und fairen wissenschaftlichen Publizierens“ des Rats der Europäischen Union aus dem Mai 2023 eine neue Dynamik. Der Rat betont die Notwendigkeit von gemeinnützigen, wissenschaftsgeleiteten Open-Access-Publikationsmodellen. Als Beitrag zur Diskussion zum Thema wurden zur Satelliten-Konferenz „Wissenschaftsgeleitetes Open-Access-Publizieren“ am Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft (IBI) der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin am 26.09.2023 „Thesen zur Zukunft des wissenschaftsgeleiteten Open-Access-Publizierens“ erarbeitet. Die Veranstaltung begleitete die Open-Access-Tage 2023, die an der Freien Universität Berlin stattfanden. In diesem Aufsatz werden die Thesen vorgestellt und deren Entstehungs- und Diskussionsprozess beschrieben. Die zehn Thesen sind als Impuls für die Weiterentwicklung der Open-Access-Transformation zu verstehen.

Key points: There are 33 university presses in Germany, most of them part of the working group of German‐language university presses, AG Universitätsverlage. Göttingen University Press was formed in the late 1990s as an open access service for the university's scholars. A publishing house within the academic network is able to be more responsive to the needs of its institution and scholars than an external publisher solely relying on revenues. Taking control of publishing helps academia ensure that results will be disseminated in a way most beneficial to itself and society.

Together with many other universities worldwide, the University of Göttingen has aimed to unlock the full potential of networked digital scientific communication by strengthening open access as early as the late 1990s. Open science policies at the institutional level consequently followed and have been with us for over a decade. However, for several reasons, their adoption often is still far from complete when it comes to the practices of researchers or research groups. To improve this situation at our university, there is dedicated support at the infrastructural level: the university library collaborates with several campus units in developing and running services, activities and projects in support of open access and open science. This article outlines our main activity areas and aligns them with the overall rationale to reach higher uptake and acceptance of open science practice at the university. The mentioned examples of our activities highlight how we seek to advance open science along the needs and perspectives of diverse audiences and by running it as a multi-stakeholder endeavor. Therefore, our activities involve library colleagues with diverse backgrounds, faculty and early career researchers, research managers, as well as project and infrastructure staff. We conclude with a summary of achievements and challenges to be faced.

Although Diamond Open Access is gaining momentum as a more equitable, fair, inclusive publishing model, there is no universal definition yet of Diamond OA journals. Most prevalent is defining them by zero APC (article processing charges). There’s widespread understanding that absence of APC’s is not enough and that Diamond OA journals should be owned by scientists, academic institutions or research infrastructures and be operated professionally, based on values of research integrity. Thus, Diamond OA is considered to be a positive alternative to economic distortions parts of the open access publishing market display. The DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects introduced operational criteria to identify Diamond OA journals. They are required to enable binary decisions of journals classifying as Diamond OA or not within the Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH), a registry for such journals launching by the end of 2025. DDH will be a responsive, scalable platform with SEO-friendly UI, based on an editorial model including trusted data sources of Diamond OA journals on one side and a DDH editorial team on the other. The editorial team will be volunteers, organised along the emerging system of Diamond Capacity Centres and a central Diamond Capacity Hub. Trusted sources will mostly be European institutional publishing service providers (IPSPs). The DDH will support decision making of authors, funders or institutions and bring more visibility and recognition to Diamond OA journals and the Diamond OA model in general. Therefore, inclusion criteria have to be based on observable data points and be as unambiguous and transparent as possible. They are:1. use of persistent identifier2. being a scientific journal3. immediate Open Access with open licences4. no fees5. open to all authors within a journal’s scope6. community-ownedWhile criteria 1 and 3 are machine-observable data points and for 2, 4, and 5 approved practices exist, criteria 6 on (scientific) community ownership is challenging to base binary decisions on. If parameters of judging “community owned” are set too wide, the rigorousness of such a collection is watered down with too many questionable entries. If set too narrow, the DDH would risk excluding scientific journals identifying with the overall goals of Diamond OA but failing to meet minor aspects of “community owned”. We’d like to facilitate a community effort in developing flexible, transparent parameters for criteria 6. These parameters will help in two ways: journals identifying with values and ethics of Diamond OA find guidance in how to express this in an observable manner while clear parameters enable the volunteers’ work within the DDH editorial team. We propose a 90-minute workshop to jointly work on the mentioned parameters of criteria 6 around community-ownership. To give participants a hands-on experience we’ll introduce the DDH’s current alpha-version system and our planned editorial model.

Überarbeitete Fassung der Thesen zum wissenschaftsgeleiteten Open-Access-Publizieren