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The Medical University Vienna is one of the universities with the highest publication-output in Austria. A considerable proportion of these publications already fall into the area of open access, not least through the initiatives of the Austrian university libraries and research institutes, which were able to finalise so-called transition contracts with open access components with large publishers. In the following, this development is described from the perspective of the university library of the Medical University Vienna, analyses are presented and future developments are discussed. [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]

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]

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]

Representatives of five Austrian institutions deliver short statements about their motivation and objectives regarding their participation in „E-Infrastructures Austria“ and the special charcteristics of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy co-funded infrastructure project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]