The University of Klagenfurt is continuously intensifying the promotion of Open Access publishing and Open Data. As part of the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ), we offer Open Access publications to all researchers and students of our university without additional fees, including Gold Open Access as well as Diamond Open Access. An excellent example of Diamond Open Access is the university-run journal Colloquium: new philologies and its recent special issue on “Ingeborg Bachmann und die Philosophie” (doi:10.23963/cnp), Bachmann being an internationally renowned writer born in Klagenfurt.
On the more technical side, the university will centralise all open access billing at the Open Access Service, which is to be transformed into a single point of contact (SPoC) by 2025. These transformative processes have been facilitated by participation in several Austrian-wide working groups, in particular within the national project AT2OA2, which ends in 2024. Another outcome of this Open Access project, which is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, will be a MOOC on Predatory Publishing and Scholarly Communications. The MOOC will form part of our university’s Open Educational Resources. The Blog on Scholarly Communications in Transition is already online and offers insights into predatory publishing and other phenomena in academia.
With regard to Open Data, the University of Klagenfurt has recently conducted an internal survey on Research Data and its management. The survey and its results will be made accessible via the Austrian Social Science Archive (AUSSDA), the national social science research data repository and Austrian representative on the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA ERIC). Key results of the survey include the adoption of a guiding policy on RDM in the 2025-27 performance agreement period (“Open Science Policy”), dialogue with faculties on RDM needs to be sought, workshops and information events on RDM will be organised by the Research Support Service, and, last but not least, data stewards at faculties should be discussed with the incoming rectorate as an option for discipline-specific support for RDM. This outlines the rough roadmap to FAIR research data management for the coming months and even years.
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