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Publishing, financing and monitoring Open Access

ZALF Access

ZALF central library- splitted into libary services and publication management - consults ZALF's ZALF’s administration and researchers in terms of publishing, financing managing the literature and information supply, assisting during publishing processes and monitoring.

[While through monitoring the dpt. research output with bibliometric methods. These services become even more relevant when data is needed for an evaluation by the Leibniz Senate. It focuses on an 6

independent assessment of LIS manages internal information infrastructure..]

13-15 % the institution’s development in the intervening years, in terms of content and structure, as well as on the persuasiveness of its future plans. Up to 15 per cent of ZALF’s peer-reviewed journal articles are OA (percentage open. The percentage is constant, inspite constant during the last three years, in spite of increasing the number of publications with to around 200 articels per year)

Since July, peer-reviewed articles in 2015.

Since July 2015, ZALF supports an Open Access policy which is based on a template a template of the Leibniz Association (http://www.zalf.de/en/forschung/services/pubman/Documents/Policy_eng_A9R378A.pdf). Association. Therein ZALF "recommends" and "obligates" specific points [which?] procedures for open publications that also combines combine a formulation of own guidelines how to sign contracts with publishing companies (with companies, with a focus on German usage rights).

Finances concerning individual and consortia licences

Publication funds (central at ZALF, from 2016 1 year trial within Leibniz Association, link...)

Prepay membership within rights (Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung, 2015). (http://www.zalf.de/en/forschung/services/pubman/Documents/Policy_eng_A9R378A.pdf)

Financing licences for publishing costs is another activity for the library management. Referring to this, the Leibniz Association= heavy discussion about licences between research institutions and publisher companies; Max Planck Society with Springer deal [citation discussion started by Swiss informations professional Christian Gutknecht...]

LRLR (ends a prepay membership programme in 2013 to reduce article costs. An offer also ZALF perceives. Parallel, ZALF started with 2015)

Open peer review an internal publication fund in examples (platforms, journals etc.)

Observation/Monitoring of growing awareness concerning change 2014 which provides resources for affiliated (corresponding) authors to publish in used peer-reviewed journals. Altogether, the acceptance for this instrument is very high, nevertheless the demand for financing APCs is modest. And as mentioned earlier, the Leibniz Association additionally will also start a central publication types e.g. IOP maths? fund, beginning with video abstracts

Monitoring/Reporting

using bibliometric methods and (licenced) data from data bases like Web of Science and Scopus

Leibniz 2016.

Leibniz working groups (Leibniz libraries, Open Access, Research Data) establish established a discussionculture about ongoing issues related to the future of OA publishing.

Especially central finacing open access publishing including research data. ZALF library is delicate when stakeholders need to decide which criteria (responsible institution which administrates the workflows between Leibniz institutions and observing the researcher himself) are needed for decision making in terms growing awareness of green researchers for using new publication types, such as video abstracts and gold OA.

open review processes.