Projekte

Community-driven open access journals between scientific and economic requirements (CODRIA), funded by the BMBF (2022-2023)

Up to now, a large variety of different open access types have emerged, including journals that provide free access to all publications without charging publication fees. Compared with other OA types, the body of knowledge regarding these so-called Diamond OA journals is small. The objective of the project CODRIA is to analyze the performance, efficiency, and the mode of operation of Diamond OA journals. In particular, the project aims to answer the questions as to how significant these journals are for the German OA landscape, how costly a publication is within that model, and what leeway and restrictions are associated with it for the editors and editorial offices. The overall objective is summarized in three research questions: Does the performance of Diamond OA journals differ from other OA journals in the same field? What are the costs for the operation of Diamond OA journals and what are the costs for an individual publication within that model? How do the editors and editorial offices cope with different scientific, economic and organizational demands that result from the Diamond OA model?

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OAUNI - Open Access publication at universities in Germany: Development and influencing factors, funded by the BMBF in the context of the funding stream ‘quantitative research on the science sector’, (2018-2022)

In view of the importance of open access (OA), the project investigates how the publication output of German universities has changed towards open access and what role subject-specific and organizational factors play in adopting OA. The aim is to describe the current state of OA publishing for all German universities and to develop empirical models that explain differences in the uptake of OA. The methodological design induces three components:

• Compilation of university OA publication profiles based on the publication output of German universities between 2008 and 2020.

• Development of statistical models for the explanation of differences in the uptake of OA at German universities based on organizational and discipline-specific factors.

• Expert interviews are conducted with OA administrators at selected German universities for a contextualization of the results of the statistical models.

The project is conducted in co-operation with SUB Göttingen

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Institutional Coding 2022-2024, funded in the context of the Competence Network for Bibliometrics

Since the foundation of the Competence Center for Bibliometrics (KB), the working group bibliometrics provides a coding for institutions that attributes German address data from the Web of Science and Scopus to existing research institutions. The procedure is based on text patterns and considers structural changes in the institutional landscapes over time and represents them in the data structure that is provided to all partners of KB. For the funding period 2022-2024, the cleaned address-data are provided quarterly to all members of the Competence Network via the shared database infrastructure at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.