RuZ - Recht und Zugang

Völkerrechtsblog’s hybrid conference “Opening Access, Closing the Knowledge Gap – International Legal Scholarship going online” aimed to expand the notion of ‘open access’ from a mere standard of publication to the continuous and active...

Divided into two parts, this article showcases, by focusing on access to public documents, the freedom of information frameworks at the European level. Part 1 considers the EU, which is the only supranational organization that has subjected itself...

The handling of child and youth pornography in archives has become more sensitive in recent years. This was triggered on the one hand by the discovery of corresponding photos in a teacher's estate in the Wiesbaden State Archives and on the other...

The German Research Foundation has presented a comprehensive analysis of current (mis)developments with the position paper "Academic publishing as a Foundation and Area of leverage for Research Assessment". She tries to counteract this by adapting...