Further Information Resources

Open Access websites of other Austrian universities and non-university institutions:

Universities:

• Medical University of Graz: http://www.medunigraz.at/openaccess/
  

• Vienna University of Technology (TUW): https://www.tuwien.at/en/library/research-and-publishing/
  
• University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU): https://boku.ac.at/bib/themen/open-access-oa-services-der-ub
  
• University of Graz: http://ub.uni-graz.at/en/services/open-access/
  
• University of Innsbruck: http://www.uibk.ac.at/iup/open-access.html
  
• University of Klagenfurt (AAU): https://www.uni-klu.ac.at/main/inhalt/43461.htm
  
• University of Linz:  http://www.jku.at/UB/content/e997/e261604
  
• University of Salzburg: http://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=65433&L=1
  
• University of Vienna: http://openaccess.univie.ac.at/en/home/
  
• Vienna University of Economics and Business: http://epub.wu.ac.at/
  

• Montanuniversität Leoben: http://bibliothek.unileoben.ac.at/en/5242/
  
• Graz University of Technology: http://www.openaccess.tugraz.at
  
• University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna: https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/de/forschung/open-access/
  

Non-university institutions:

• Austrian Science Fund (FWF): http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/open-access-policy/
  
• Institute of Science and Technology Austria: https://ist.ac.at/en/research/library/publish-communicate/oa/
  
• Austrian Academy of Sciences: http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/oa
  
• IIASA – International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis: http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/resources/publications/oa/open-access.html
  

Portals

• Open Access Network Austria (OANA): http://www.oana.at/en/home/
  
• Platform open-access.net (Open Access-Portal D-A-CH): http://open-access.net/AT-EN/austria-english/
  
• OpenAIRE (Open Access portal of the European Union): https://www.openaire.eu/
  
• Open Access Directory (OAD): http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page
  
• UNESCO – Global Open Access Portal: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/
  

Open Access policies

• Open Access policy of the University of Graz (A): http://ub.uni-graz.at/de/dienstleistungen/open-access/openaccessunigraz/open-access-policy/
  
• The policy of the University of Klagenfurt (A): https://www.uni-klu.ac.at/main/inhalt/43461.htm
  
• Open Access policy of the University of Salzburg (A): http://www.uni-salzburg.at/index.php?id=67755&L=1
  
• Open Access policy of the University of Vienna (A): http://openaccess.univie.ac.at/en/policy/
  
• Open Access policy for projects financed by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund): http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/open-access-policy/
  
• Open Access policy of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria: https://www2.ist.ac.at/open-access/open-access-policy/
  
• Open Access policy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences: http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/oa
  
• ROARMAP – The Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies: http://roarmap.eprints.org/
  
• SHERPA/JULIET – Research funders' open access policies: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/juliet/
  
• Open Access policy of the Graz University of Technology: http://www.openaccess.tugraz.at/policy
  
• Open Access policy of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): http://www.iiasa.ac.at/web/home/resources/publications/oa/Open_Access_at_IIASA.html
  

Gold Open Access, journals, books, publishers

• DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals (worldwide): https://doaj.org/
  
• DOAB – Directory of Open Access Books (search engine for Open Access books):  http://www.doabooks.org/
  OAPEN-Library (platform for Open Access books, especially in the humanities and the social and cultural sciences): http://www.oapen.org/home
  
• OASPA – Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association: http://oaspa.org/
  
• OANA, checklist for publishing Open Access journals at research institutions: https://typo3.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_oana/oana/OANA-Checkliste-OA-Journals.pdf
  
• OAPEN-UK, Guide to Open Access Monograph Publishing for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Researchers: http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/files/2015/07/Guide-to-open-access-monograph-publishing-for-researchers-final.pdf
  
• Wellcome Trust, Open Access Monographs and Book Chapters: A Practical Guide for Publishers: https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wtp059497.pdf
  
• Open Journal Systems (OJS): https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/
  
• Open Monograph Press (OMP): https://pkp.sfu.ca/omp/
  

Green Open Access and repositories

• SHERPA/RoMEO (publisher copyright policies and self-archiving): http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/
  
• OpenDOAR – Directory of Open Access Repositories (worldwide): http://www.opendoar.org/
  
• re3data.org: Registry of Research Data Repositories (worldwide): http://www.re3data.org/
  

Legal issues

• Austrian federal law on copyright in literary works, works of art and related rights (the “Copyright Act” / Urheberrechtsgesetz): Bundesgesetz
  

• Amendment to the Austrian Copyright Act from 2015 (Urh-Nov 2015): http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXV/BNR/BNR_00205/index.shtml
  
• Bundesgesetzblatt (Federal Law Gazette) on the amendment to the Austrian Copyright Act from 2015: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/BgblAuth/BGBLA_2015_I_99/BGBLA_2015_I_99.pdf
  
• Creative Commons website: http://creativecommons.org/
  
• Seyavash Amini, Guido Blechl, Joachim Losehand; FAQs about Creative Commons licenses with a special focus on science: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail_object/o:408042
  
• Till Kreutzer, Ein Praxisleitfaden zur Nutzung von Creative-Commons-Lizenzen (German): https://irights.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Open_Content_-_Ein_Praxisleitfaden_zur_Nutzung_von_Creative-Commons-Lizenzen.pdf
  
• Till Kreutzer, Open Content – A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licenses: https://www.unesco.de/fileadmin/medien/Dokumente/Kommunikation/Open_Content_A_Practical_Guide_to_Using_Open_Content_Licences_web.pdf
  
• James Baker, Martin Eve, Ernesto Priego; Guide to Creative Commons for Humanities and Social Sciences Monograph Authors: http://oapen-uk.jiscebooks.org/files/2011/01/CC-Guide-for-HSS-Monograph-Authors-CC-BY.pdf
  
• Seyavash Amini, Nikolaus Forgó; Urheberrechtsfragen beim Einsatz von Multimedia an Hochschulen. Ein Leitfaden für die Praxis am Beispiel der Universität Wien: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail_object/o:28164
  

Publications, initiatives

• Bruno Bauer et al. (2015), Recommendations for the Transition to Open Access in Austria. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.34079
  
• Ralf Schimmer, Kai Karin Geschuhn, Andreas Vogler (2015); Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access. DOI: 10.17617/1.3.
  
• New Science Europe Principles on Open Access Publisher Services (2015): https://www.scienceeurope.org/our-resources/principles-on-open-access-to-research-publications
  
• Position Paper by the ad-hoc Research Data Working Group “Open Access Gold” within the framework of the Priority Initiative “Digital Information“ of the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany (2015): http://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:873897:4/component/escidoc:873899/2015_Ad-hoc-AG-OA-Gold_Positionspapier.pdf
  
• League of European Research Universities (LERU) Statement on Open Access - Sign the Petition! “Christmas is over. Research funding should go to research, not to publishers!” (2015): https://www.leru.org/christmas-is-over-research-funding-should-go-to-research-not-to-publishers
  
• Katrin Buschmann et al. (2015), Open Science in Österreich – Ansätze und Status: http://www.oana.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_oana/oana/Paper_Open_Science_in_AT_FINAL_V1.0.pdf
  
• Expert Group "National Strategy" of the Open Access Network Austria (OANA), Universities Austria (uniko) (2016). Recommendations for the Transition to Open Access in Austria https://doi.org/10.1515/iwp-2015-0025 
  
• Peter Kraker et al.. (2016). The Vienna Principles: A Vision for Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century https://zenodo.org/record/55597#.V9kUbrVwW1I
  

Social media, newsletters, mailing lists

• Collection of social media sites on Open Access: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Social_media_sites_about_OA
  
• Collection of blogs on Open Access: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Blogs_about_OA
  
• Blog of the Open Knowledge Forum Austria: http://okfn.at/blog/
  
• Blog of the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP): http://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/3/republished_feeds/6
  
• Tweets of the Open Access Tracking Project (OATP): https://twitter.com/oatp
  
• Tweets on Open Access and related topics by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): https://twitter.com/FWFOpenAccess
  
• Wiki on how to handle research data: http://www.forschungsdaten.org/
  
• Open Access newsletter of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): http://www.fwf.ac.at/de/news-presse/news/?tx_rsmnews_list[search][category]=8
  
• Open Access newsletter of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC): http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/archive.htm
  
• Platform open-access.net: https://open-access.net/DE-EN/community/mailinglist/
  
• Wikimedia: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess