Volume 60 (2013), Issue 5

In fall of 2009 the Joint Committee of the German Research Foundation(DFG) approved the establishment of a support programfor open access publishing. Since then German universities havereceived subsidies to develop permanent publication funds...

From year to year science is generating more results in publishedform. There is particularly rapid growth of freely accessible digitalpublications. Open access is thus increasingly regarded asbeing on par with the traditional channels of...

The so-called »Finch Report« has led to a series of significantchanges in publishing in the UK. In particular, the research fundingorganization »Research Councils UK« has issued new guidelinesregarding open access, in which immediate open...