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This paper presents the results of the OBV working group "Repositories in the Austrian Library Network". The aim of the working group was to develop a guideline for the registration of metadata for objects in repositories, which would contribute to the development of uniform standards in this regard, and with the help of which it should subsequently be possible to identify repository holdings in Alma or in the Austrian Union Catalogue without creating duplicates. Further goals were the development of recommendations for a central provision of metadata of open access publications to simplify local workflows (analogous to the DFG-funded project DeepGreen) by means of partial automation, as well as recommendations for establishing a tab for open access materials in the search engine of the Austrian Library Network (analogous to the tabs "Literature", "Theses and Dissertations" and "Bequests / Autographs"). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After the cancellation of the 109. Deutscher Bibiothekartag (109th German Librarian Day), which should have taken place in Hannover from Mai 26th to 29th 2020, the Berufsverband Information Bibliothek (BIB) and the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library – together with #vBIB20 organised at short notice a virtual conference about library topics from May 26th to 28th 2020. In this cooperative report lectures are presented about publication system, Open Access, research data management, library statistics and provenance research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paolo Budroni has been working in the university sector since 1991. At the beginning he answers questions about his professional career in the field of research documentation and research data management. The interview addresses national and international projects and initiatives for research data management with a focus on the European Open Science Cloud. Finally, Budroni encourages libraries to actively implement the concept of Open Science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the president of the Association of Austrian Librarians informs about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the association's activities and the necessary adaptions of the key subjects during the term of office 2019–2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article the new elected president informs about the list of the members of the executive committee 2019 to 2021 and about the key activities in the current period of office. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For a long time, the funding of innovative cooperation projects of university libraries at public universities with central funds was a desideratum. Start-up financing for university cooperation projects, including administrative projects, was provided by the calls for proposals for the Higher Education Area Structural Funding projects in 2013 and 2017, respectively, by the Federal Ministry responsible for science. Among the projects that were selected by the Federal Ministry were also five designed on the initiative of the Forum Universitätsbibliotheken Österreichs. The topics range from repositories and research data to Open Access and Open Educational Resources to procurement law for scholarly literature. The results already presented and the pro-jects still to be implemented make an important contribution to ensuring that the information infrastructure in Austria can be developed competitively and future-proof for research and teaching in a European and international context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current issue of the „Communications of the Association of Austrian Librarians“ (Mitteilungen der VÖB) is dedicated to the topic Austrian Transition to Open Access, a Higher Education Area Structural Funding project lasting 2017–2020, in which all 21 Austrian public universities are involved. The special issue includes an overview article on the project, contributions on the four subprojects and an overview of the Higher Education Structural Research projects (2014–2020) co-funded by the Federal Ministry of Science, in which libraries of the public universities have been or are involved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 107th German Librarians' Day took place from 12 to 15 June 2018 in Berlin. The motto of the conference, which was attended by 4.050 people, was "open and connected". This cooperative report covers the following topics: machine indexing, long-term archiving, requirements for future library management systems, library education, open access, research data and research data management, NS provenance research and quality management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On November 23, 2018 the first version of the internet portal European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was presented at the University of Vienna as part of the Austrian EU Council Presidency. Representatives from politics, science, research funding and the European Commission discussed the concept and meaning of the EOSC and presented its potential with concrete examples. As part of this event the Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science was also publicly presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since 2017 the Austrian Library Network (ALN) is steadily replacing its previous integrated library system software Aleph 500 with the new unified resource management system ALMA. In the interview Wolfgang Hamedinger, director of the Austrian Library Network and Service Ltd, informs about the special challenges of thisendeavour, its implementation so far and the planned next steps. Further topics likeother business areas of the ALN and Austrian Academic LibraryConsortium, fundingn of ALN and characteristics that are distinguishing the Austrian Library Network arealso discussed. In the end Hamedinger answers the question if there will be libraries and library networks in ten years time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between January 2016 and March 2018 the integrated library system Alma was implemented at 14 institutions in the Austrian Library Network (ALN) following a three-phase plan (Conceptual Design, Getting Ready, Implementation). An important role in the process was played by the so-called functional experts, who were in charge of the various ILS functionalities and also serving as liaison to the individual institutions. Eight groups were established in total and comprised experts from the participating libraries in the following areas: data, e-resources, fulfillment, acquisitions, resource management, public services and journals. These were supported by a group in charge of creating a plan for user training and of coordinating the other groups. Most of the work – apart from several meetings held at the Austrian Library Network and Service Ltd (OBVSG) – was conducted via weekly or bimonthly webcalls. For this report representatives of the functional expertsgroups as well as the user training group were invited to present their perspective on implementing Alma in the Austrian Library Network in response to four questions. The replies give a varied picture on the implementation project from the view of those employees that played a vital role in its success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current issue of the „Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare“ (VÖB)/„Communications of the Association of Austrian Librarians“ is dedicated to the implementation of Alma in the Austrian Library Network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the development and status quo of repositories in Austria, which have received an important impulse by the project e-Infrastructures Austria. While in the years following the "Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge" (2003), mainly the areas of publications and Green Open Access were dealt with, but recently research data has become increasingly popular, especially in the context of initiatives like the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This upturn is also reflected in the ongoing increase in the number of Austrian repositories listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org). By means of statistical evaluations it was ascertained which types of documents are included in these repositories, which academic disciplines they represent, the extent of their content, which software is used, whether already existing interfaces (such as OAI) are available and which policies are being followed for the respective repositories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BAM Austria: Working Committee Libraries, Archives, Museums Austria came to the public in 2017 with two activities. On May 11, 2017, a seminar on „Open Access and Linked Open Data“ (LOD) took place in Vienna, to which 25 representatives of libraries, archives and museums were invited. On September 13, 2017, a panel on „Digitalisation in libraries, archives and museums“ was organized in the framework of the 33rd Austrian Library Day in Linz, in which about 90 people took part. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the final project year of e-Infrastructures Austria, a program for the coordinated expansion and continued development of repositories across Austria, funded by the Austrian Ministry of Science, Research and Commerce (BMWFW), the objectives of the three defined subprojects were successfully met. While at the beginning of the project only 3 institutions in Austria had repositories in place, after three years, 5 institutions had data repositories and 17 institutions had publication servers in use, five more were in development and 3 being planned. In 2016, a „task force dedicated to finding strategies for the management of research data in Austria“ created a Model Policy for Research Data Management at Austrian research institutions. At some partner institutions the topic of data management plans was introduced. The exchange of experiences on technical, organisational, legal, and content related issues could be achieved through Workshops on metadata and long term archiving and particularly through a four-day training seminar for research data stewardship and e-infrastructures. Topics related to research data management will fortunately be continued. Apart from the follow-up project e-Infrastructures Austria Plus, there are currently several national publicly funded cooperative projects in place supporting the Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science and complying with the requirements of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 10th Open Access Days took place on October 10-11 at LMU Munich. The event is the largest Open Access conference in the German-speaking countries and assembled over 350 participants. This year's main focus was the transformation of the established scholarly publishing system to Open Access. Our cooperative account provides information about the talks, sessions and plenary session held at the conference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This checklist provides an overview of the Open Access policies implemented at Austrian universities and extramural research institutions. Furthermore, the polices adopted at nine public universities are analyzed and the respective text modules are categorized thematically. The second part of the checklist presents measures for the promotion of Open Access following the implementation of an Open Access policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"biografiA: Lexikon österreichischer Frauen" was presented to the public by Federal President Heinz Fischer in Vienna Hofburg State Chancellery on May 26, 2016. Additionally to an account of this event the following article contains speeches of Edith Stumpf-Fischer, Waltraud Heindl and Ilse Korotin on accomplishing this lexicon and its relevance to feminist historiography in Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this 10-question interview Christian Enichlmayr tells us about the start of his career in the publishing business, his library employment at the University Linz and his job change to the Federal Study Library Linz. He was the head of the descendent organization from 1999 to 2015 and therefore responsible for the transformation and modernisation of the former study library into the Upper Austrian State Library. During this time the library building had a major refurbishment and got outstanding annexe. The interview covers im portant topics at the Upper Austrian State Library from the last 17 years, including NS provenance research, the advancement of the digital library and the promotion of the library in order to become a substantial part of the Upper Austrian cultural live. Furthermore Mr. Enichlmayr explains the significance of cooperation among libraries and gives a summary of the meeting of the Austrian Librarian Association in Linz in 2004. In a final point he mentions possible prospects of libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the second year, the FIRSM project entitled e-lnfrastructures Austria has not only established a widely accepted platform for networking forums, meetings and training units, but the first deliverables are also available, which have been instrumental in the overall objective of the development of sustainable archive infrastructure and the consolidation of knowledge in the field of security and provision of digital data. In early 2015, a survey was carried out on the project, which encompassed the scientific and artistic academic staff from the 20 public universities and three non-university research institutions in Austria. The aim was to boost the practical application of research data and coordinate the services offered in this area for existing needs. The survey results show a significant need to catch up in the field of data management. The construction of the technical infrastructure in the area of an electronic document repository (project column A ) for all partners is well advanced, therefore, the concentration in the last year of the project will mainly be on column B (research data). The research data final report forms the basis for a group of experts, which deals with the question of strategy for handling research data and research data management in Austria. Project column C (Knowledge Network) is currently supported in the last year of the project by a centrally organized, four-day training event „Training Seminar for Research Data and e-lnfrastructures“ for all project partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ralf Schimmer answers questions about Max Planck Society's positioning on open access systems and also speaks a bout motives and date of the release of its keynote paper “ Disrupting the subscription journals ' business model for the necessary largescale transformation to open access: A Max Planck Digital Library Open Access Policy White Paper" . The interv ie w also refects the differe t kinds and fun ding of open access systems as well as the question about future tasks of libraries, of open access systems w ill succeed the classic pattern of journ ls which rely on subscriptions und licences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on 16 recommendations, efforts should be made to achieve the following goal: By 2025, all scholarly publication activity in Austria should be Open Access. In other words, the final versions of all scholarly publications resulting from the support of public resources must be freely accessible on the Internet without delay (Gold Open Access). The resources required to meet this obligation shall be provided to the authors, or the cost of the publication venues shall be borne directly by the research organisations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides executive summary and recommendations of “Researchers and their data. Results of an Austrian survey - Report 2 01 5 " This report provides an overview of the nation-wide survey on research data, which was carried out within the project e-lnfrastructures Austria in 2015. This was directed at the arts, humanities and sciences staff of all 21 public universities and three extramural research institutions in Austria. The participants were asked about the following topics: data types and formats; data archiving backup and loss; ethical and legal aspects; accessibility and re-use; and infrastructure and services. The first survey conducted at the national level in this context was used for the practical handling of research data in Austria, and is therefore the basis for a consecutive optimization of relevant infrastructure, an adaptation of the services provided, as well as a reorientation in identifying resources in this strategic area which correspond to the expressed needs of people in the research process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lorenz Mikoletzky answers questions about his professional training and his appointment als Director General of the Austrian State Archives, which he managed for seventeen years. Also discussed are themes like digitalisation of archives, the projected „House of History “ and the tasks of dhe Austrian Historical Commission, of which he was Vice-Chairman from 1998 to 2003 . Mikoletzky refers also his friendly relations to the Association of Austrian Librarians and his efforts for a cooperation between libraries, archives und museums in the cooperation plattform BAM Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2014 in two cases the Medical University of Vienna was able to elicit the rightful owners/heirs of expropriated goods during the Nazi-regime. Restitution was made to the heirs of Hans Peter Kraus and Philipp and Wilhelm Suschitzky. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In January 2014, e-lnfrastructures Austria, a three-year project, funded by the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy was launched. The project pursues the coordinated development and advancement of repository infrastructures, a strategic approach for future research data management in Austria, as well as the development of a knowledge network for secure archiving and dissemination of electronic publications, multimedia objects, and other digital data from research and education. Its main purposes are both for the construction of technical infrastructures as well as the creation of a knowledge base for future service offerings in this area. The basis for the successful completion of the project was the rapid development of an Austria-wide network of 25 institutions, including 20 universities. The cooperation is achieved through instruments that can be extended as required: five committees and governance that regulates roles and responsibilities. The identified themes are treated in interdisciplinary „work package clusters “that are applied over time. The project provides a platform for numerous networking forums, meeting and training units that involves all provinces and invites librarians as well as other relevant stakeholders such as representatives from the local IT facilities, research services and legal departments and scientists to participate. Thus, the project reaches way beyond simply addressing thematically and organizationally specific library perspectives. The report provides information about the project objectives of e-lnfrastructures Austria, the successful establishment of the network that took place in 2014 and the different governing bodies. The report also includes the results achieved in the first year of the project in the clusters and the work to be performed in 2015. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

„Iinnovations in a world of media“ - the motto of the 2014 ODOK-conference has its counterparts also within cooperation-projects of Austrian academic libraries. The changeover from printed to electronic media, adjusted largely and in cooperation, has already brought a great deal of possible innovation. Recently several promising cooperation-projects have been started which will contribute to optimize Austrian library and information structures for science, research and teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 7th German Librarians' Congress took place from 18 to 21 March 2019 in Leipzig. The motto of the conference, which was attended by more than 4.000 people (including 95 from Austria), was „Libraries for change“. This coope-rative report covers the following topics: Specialised Information Services programme, long term archiving, repositories, research data and research data management, open access, NS provenance research, quality management and accessibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]