Open Science development in Germany

In 2003, the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities was signed by the main German research associations as well as the German Research Foundation and several international institutions (http://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration). Until now, more than 500 research organisations from around the world have signed the declaration, which highlights goals, a definition of an Open Access contribution and encourages to support the transmission to the electronic open access paradigm. Based on the integrity and transparency of research it aims to use   the internet for developing an open knowlegde base for society. Already in 2001, the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the ECHO Charter and the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing drafted the Berlin Declaration.

Open Access and Research Funding by the DFG:

2009 Allianz der deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen eine Gemeinsame Erklärung der Wissenschaftsorganisationen zu Open Access und Urheberrecht (http://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/awbi/open_access/index.html).

press release in December 2013 influencing German research landscape:

Currently, programs of the European Commission like the  Horizon 2020 research data pilot (http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-1257_en.htm)

Example of using open science skills enriching a young scene of 'open scientists'

A very new approach to Open Access publications is Fecher's open dissertation (offene Doktorarbeit; Heise???), which has been open and online from the beginning of writing. Legal restrictions had to be overcome before Fecher was able to start his project. 

In context to scientific approach of library and information science (and connected to a nationwide acting information infrastructure institution) within leibniz research program Science 2.0 which will be described in the next chapter...

As mentioned above there is also an evidence to discuss legal copyright issues in Germany:

Zweitveröffentlichungsrecht, which exists since 2014. was necessary but contoversial [Beleg???; OpenCon OpenCon  in Berlin http://www.opencon2015.org/ results?]