Certification and beyond : DINI open access activities in Germany

Dobratz, Susanne and Scholze, Frank Certification and beyond : DINI open access activities in Germany., 2005 . In CERN workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI4), Geneva (Switzerland), 20-22 October 2005. (Unpublished) [Presentation]

[thumbnail of Dobratz_oai4-dini.pdf]
Preview
PDF
Dobratz_oai4-dini.pdf

Download (72kB) | Preview
[thumbnail of Dobratz_oai4-dini.ppt] Microsoft PowerPoint
Dobratz_oai4-dini.ppt

Download (165kB)

English abstract

Local publication servers are common and at the same time highly fragmented in Germany. To bring them to greater success it is necessary to standardize further developments. DINI with its publication "Electronic Publishing in Higher Education" laid a foundation for a widespread introduction of general regulations and standards concerning electronic publishing and archiving of scientific documents in institutional repositories. The DINI-Certificate "Document and Publication Repositories" takes this a step further by clearly describing criteria, that will guarantee repositories to be set up and operated according to national standards and international developments. Repositories fulfilling these criteria may be awarded a certificate, testifying to their quality. The DINI certificate may also help their operators to market the institutional repository as a reliable service to support electronic publishing as well as self- archiving at their institution. In parallel to this quality of service activities DINI started to promote a more widespread practice of open access archiving and publishing in Germany by - translating and distributing the SPARC Open Access brochure, - recommending suitable and precise open access policy statements for universities, - recommending standardized usage statistics, - organizing advocacy events, - supporting local initiatives and university libraries in taking on an active role in collecting scientific material from their researchers and teachers - extending the DINI certificate to allow Universities to provide a reliable and attractive self-archiving component to their scientists The talk will show the achievements of the DINI working group on electronic publishing since Peter Schirmbacher’s talk at OAI 3 (http://agenda.cern.ch/askArchive.php? base=agenda&categ=a035925&id=a035925s8t14/transparencies) and discuss the experiences made in Germany with this approach.

Item type: Presentation
Keywords: DINI certificate, certification, Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerk Information, Electronic Publishing, archiving of scientific documents, Open access in Germany, institutional repositories, German universities, Nestor, Network of Expertise in Long-Term Storage of Digital Resources, interoperability
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > EB. Printing, electronic publishing, broadcasting.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HS. Repositories.
Depositing user: Users 181 not found.
Date deposited: 22 Sep 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:04
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/8136

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item