Open Access
We offer an innovative model of publication that focuses on optimal usage of modern ways of publication and gives choices to the authors regarding free online publication. The focus of our publication work is broad awareness and accessibility for the publications in order to illustrate the scholarly performance of Goettingen's Scholars. For that reason, we are aiming to make most of our publications available on the university's Institutional Repository (GOEDOC) by terms of Open Access. Here you can find our publication policy (in German). (In a concise form you can find our policy for the deposit of pre- and postprints in Open Access repositories in the Sherpa/RoMEO database.)
Resolution of the presidium of Georg August University, Göttingen: »Open-Access-Leitlinie der Universität Göttingen« (PDF, available in German only)
Göttingen University Press provides some recommendations Open-Access-Lizenzen im Universitätsverlag Göttingen" relating to open access licenses. Please note that this text is only available in German.
The German UNESCO commission, the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (hbz) and Wikimedia Deutschland published a Open Content-Leitfaden" in November 2014. Authors are informed about their rights and duties concerning their online publications. The main focus is directed towards the international widespread license Creative Commons.
Creative Commons Lizenz
The electronic version of your publication is provided with a publication license, e.g. Creative Commons Lizense. Göttingen University Press makes use of the Creative Commons License 4.0 which includes the duty to give appropriate credit.
More on Open Access
Directory of open access books
"The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB. Metadata will be harvestable in order to maximize dissemination, visibility and impact. Aggregators can integrate the records in their commercial services and libraries can integrate the directory into their online catalogues, helping scholars and students to discover the books. The directory is open to all publishers who publish academic, peer reviewed books in Open Access and should contain as many books as possible, provided that these publications are in Open Access and meet academic standards."
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
The mission of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is to support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal and book publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines. To accomplish its mission, the Association will exchange Information (provide a forum for the exchange of information and experiences related to OA delivery of scientific content), set standards (promote a uniform definition of OA publishing, best practices for maintaining and disseminating OA scholarly communications, and ethical standards), advance models (support the development of business and publishing models that support OA journal and book publishing), advocate for Gold OA (promote Gold OA journals, and policies that support their viability), educate (educate the research community and public on the benefits of OA journals, on the value publishers bring to the publication process and on various policies that enhance and support the delivery of OA publications) and promote innovation (contribute to the development and dissemination of innovative approaches to scientific communications pertaining to OA and of related activities that leverage the opportunities afforded by OA to scholarly content).
Open Access Plattform
Information, training and networking: The online portal open-access.network offers all researchers and librarians, newcomers and professionals, comprehensive and free services on the topic of Open Access (OA). The information offered ranges from basic knowledge about OA to funding and legal issues to current developments. The portal also offers numerous training opportunities in the form of online seminars and instructional videos, as well as opportunities for sustained networking in digital focus groups, staff weeks, and barcamps. As special services, open-access.network includes a Help desk for individual questions, the oa.atlas and the oa.finder, a tool for finding a suitable publication venue.
Open Access Publishing in European Networks
The University Press of Göttingen is partner in the joint European project OAPEN. Six university presses specialised in high-quality publishing of scientific literature and two dutch universities have started the project to gather information on how Open Access publishing of books can be fostered and to build up the largest European collection of Open Access books in the Humanities and Social Sciences. They have included several cooperation partners already.