%A Bruno Bauer
%T Open Access Publishing - Trends in Deutschland, ?sterreich und der Schweiz : Initiativen, Projekte, Stellenwert

%X Open access publishing proclaims free access to scholarly journals via internet. Since the turn of  the millenium scientists, non profit publishers, policy makers, international organisations and last but not least librarians strongly support open access initiatives as alternative to existing publication systems.
The present report analyses current open access initiatives and projects in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Assessment deals with participation in boycotts and proclamations, the fuction of editors and authors in open access journals (eg. PloS, BioMed Central), self archiving and implementation of institutional repositories.
%D 2005
%K Open Access Publishing, scientific publishing, institutional respositories, IR, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, wissenschaftliches Publizieren, institutionelles Archiv, Deutschland, ?sterreich, Schweiz
%L eprints36000