Open Science in the Leibniz Association

Already  in 2003, the Leibniz Association was one of the first signatories for the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. Subsequently, a Leibniz Open Access guideline has been adopted in 2007 to maximise the value of publicly-funded research http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/UEber_uns/Leibniz_OpenAccess-Leitlinie_-_ENGLISH.pdf. It states, that research results - this can be publications as well as data and programming code - are freely accessible in electronic archives via the internet.

Several working groups which encourage Open Access are established:

- Open Access Working Group has existed since 2005. It has developed an Open Access strategy and recommendations for all Leibniz members. It has prepared a template for an Open Access policy which is adapted by the Leibniz institutes according to their institutional openness. --> Link

- Libraries and Information Infrastructures Working Group

- Research Data Working Group addresses anything concerning data such as Open Access to research data and works together with the Working Group Research Data of the Alliance of Research Organisations in Germany .

Since 2011, the Open Access platform LeibnizOpen summarizes Open Access publications of Leibniz institutions.