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Publishing, financing and monitoring Open Access


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ZALF central library consults ZALF’s administration and researchers in terms of managing the literature and information supply, assisting during publishing processes and through monitoring the 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 independent  assessment of 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 open. The percentage is constant during the last three years, in spite of increasing the number of publications to around 200 peer-reviewed articles in 2015.

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

ZALF central library consults ZALF’s administration and researchers in terms of managing the literature and information supply, assisting during publishing processes and through monitoring the 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

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Financing  licences for publishing costs is another activity for the library management. Referring to this, the Leibniz Association started a prepay membership programme in 2013 to reduce article costs. An offer also ZALF perceives. Parallel, ZALF started with an internal publication fund in 2014 which provides resources for affiliated (corresponding) authors to publish in 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 fund, beginning with 2016.

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Leibniz  working groups established a discussion about ongoing issues related to the future of open access publishing including research data. ZALF library is observing the growing awareness of researchers for using new publication types, such as video abstracts and open review processes.