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The focus of the current issue 3/2019 of GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information is the annual conference 2019 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Göttingen. The motto of the conference was "AGMB 2019: Shaping new paths together". The authors in this issue are Christina Draheim, Kristof Kessler, Janus Wawrzinek & Stefan Wulle (The search plattform PubPharm), Dagmar Härter (Dissection, dissection, cutting - virtual and without blood: two years of practical experience with „Anatomage" at the Göttingen Medical Library), Birte Lindstädt (Electronic laboratory notebooks as part of research data management in the life sciences), Elisabeth Müller & Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (Acquisition strategy of ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences), Simone Petermeise & Iris Reimann (Now you can touch heart and brain in the Medical Library of RWTH Aachen University), Iris Reimann & Martina Semmler-Schmetz (Quo vadis AGMB? Results of the online member survey 2019 and outlook on possible consequences for the AGMB), Claudia Wöckel (Learn, share, act, bridge boarders... Think out of the box; Publication support for scientists – libraries as service partners) and Diana Klein (AGMB 2019: Shaping new paths together. Annual Meeting of the German Medical Library Association (AGMB), September 16 to 18, 2019 in Göttingen). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Bruno Bauer & Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences: A 10-question interview with director Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann by Bruno Bauer) and Iris Reimann (German MLA (AGMB) News; German MLA (AGMB) competition "Pioneer projects in medical libraries" 2020 – announcement). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

The focus of the current issue 1-2/2019 of GMS MEDIZIN – BIBLIOTHEK – INFORMATION is on open access at medical universities. The authors in this issue are Beate Rusch, Julia Boltze, Julia Alexandra Goltz-Fellgiebel & Hedda Staub (Deep Green – Deep Gold: open access transformation – development and perspectives), Ursula Arning, Ulrich Blortz, Beate Brüggemann-Hasler, Gabriele Herrmann-Krotz, Elisabeth Müller & Ursula Zängl (ZB MED: an academic library as an engine for open access), Jasmin Schmitz (Quality assurance for open access journals and predatory publishing), Ursula Flitner & Steffi Grimm (Launching open access services at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. A practice report), Katrin Falkenstein-Feldhoff & Katrin Wibker (Open access at the University Library Duisburg-Essen: focus on medicine). Gregor Steinrisser-Allex & Kerstin Grossmaier-Stieg (Open access at the Medical University of Graz – therapeutic decisions caught between research and clinical practice), Annette Spremberg, Markus Schmiel & Kristina Hartmann (Open access at Hannover Medical School: practical experience report of the library), Astrid Vieler & Claudia Wöckel (From information provider to research service provider – shifting the perception of library through open access at the medicine and sciences library of the Leipzig University), Karin Eckert & Stefanus Schweizer (Open access at the University and University Medical Center in Mainz), Oliver Obst (Researchers in the midst of open access and DEAL negotiations. Part 1: open access activities), Noell Hennecke, Ute Grimmel-Holzwarth & Diana Mader (A spot on open access at the medical faculty of the University of Tübingen), Bruno Bauer, Helmut Dollfuß & Daniel Formanek (Open access at the Medical University Vienna: status and prospect from the perspective of the library) and Diana Klein (Open access from the point of view of medicine at the University Library of Würzburg). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Iris Reimann (German MLA (AGMB) News), Bruno Bauer, Helmut Dollfuß & David Frank (AGM B w ork group Austrian Medical Librarians (AGMB.AT): Report on the 8 th m eeting 2018 and the 9th meeting 2019), Oliver Obst (Use of tablet computers for the study of medicine. Part 3: the project easystudium), Julian Hirt, Stefanie Neyer & Thomas Nordhausen (Comprehensive literature searches – an overview) and Bruno Bauer (The Medical Librarian's Bibliography 2018). [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]

„Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA)" ist ein Hochschulraumstrukturmittelprojekt zur Förderung von Open Access an den 21 öffentlichen Universitäten in Österreich mit der Laufzeit 2017–2020. AT2OA widmet sich in vier Teilprojekten den Themen (1) Analyse der Auswirkung einer Umstellung auf Open Access, (2) der Finanzierung von Open-Access-Übergangsmodellen, (3) dem Auf-, Ausbau und der Finanzierung von OA-Publikationsfonds und (4) der Förderung von OA-Publikationen und alternativen OA-Publikationsmodellen von Universitäten. The goal of the "Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA)" project is to support the large-scale transformation of scientific publications from Closed to Open Access and to implement measures supporting this transformation. The project aims to increase Austria's Open Access publication output by restructuring licence agreements with publishers and by providing targeted support for researchers' publication activities. It will also establish new venues for Open Access publishing. The subprojects will examine the following topics: (1) Impact analysis of the transition to Open Access; (2) Funding for transitional Open Access business models; (3) Publication funds; (4) Support for Open Access publications and alternative Open Access publication models. These subprojects will be supplemented by networking and knowledge transfer activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 3/2018 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information is on the annual conference 2018 of the German Medical Bruno Bauer1 Libraries Association in Oldenburg. The motto of the conference was 1 Medizinische Universität Wien, Universitätsbibliothek, Wien, Österreich "Medical libraries: open and innovative by tradition". The authors in this issue are Bruno Bauer (Seven years of continuous improvement according to DIN EN ISO 9001: a field report about the successful use of this quality management system at the University Library of the Medical University of Vienna), Michael Ernst (Changes in copyright law for libraries), Mark Homann (The implementation of the Urheberrechts-Wissensgesellschafts-Gesetz (UrhWissG) at subito: a short report from practice), Thomas Nordhausen & Julian Hirt (RefHunter 2.0: Update of the manual for systematic literature search in databases), Christoph Poley (A new approach to integrate availabilities in search portals and discovery services), Christoph Thiedig (The Research Core Dataset for the German science system: structure, application and the role of the library), Alexander Wagner (APC management in institutional repositories), Monika Wechsler & Michael Wilde (Medical students from Basel become medical information professionals: med.info.pro as a blended learning unit for searching medical information), Claudia Wöckel (LearningSpace at UB Leipzig) and Dagmar Härter (Medical libraries: open and innovative by tradition - annual meeting 2018 of the German MLA (AGMB), September 10th to 12th at Oldenburg). Furthermore, this focus issue features articles from Oliver Obst & Matthias Klaus Linsenmaier (Usage and usefulness of information resources during the sub-internship: a study at the medical faculty of the University Münster), Oliver Weiner & Katrin Wibker (Results of a survey among medical libraries in German-speaking countries in 2017) and Iris Reimann (German MLA (AGMB) News; Competition of the German MLA (AGMB) „Pioneer projects in medical libraries" 2018: introduction of the winners; German MLA (AGMB) competition „Pioneer projects in medical libraries" 2019 - announcement). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ZB MED - Information Center for Life Sciences is the largest library worldwide in the field of life sciences. From October 2016 to June 2018 Dietrich Nelle was its interim managing director. In this interview, he informs about ZB MED's evaluation, realignment and cooperations. Furthermore, he speaks about open access, German Medical Science, research data management and research activities at ZB MED. Moreover, Nelle explains the position paper “Academic libraries 2025', which he co-authored, and gives insight into his motivation to become provisional head of ZB MED. Finally, he drafts a possible way for the instituion's resumption into the Leibniz Association in January 2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The focus of the current issue 3/2017 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek -Information is the annual conference 2017 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Vienna. The motto of the conference was "Medical Libraries: inter:disciplinary - inter:national - inter:active". The authors in this issue are Bruno Bauer (Austrian Transition to Open Access 2017-2020), Beata Górczynska (Development and structure of Polish veterinary school system and its libraries), Katharina Heldt, Henriette Senst & Jessica Riedel (Salon on the institute's history: outstanding artifacts. 28.01.2016 to 15.12.2016), Jutta Matrisciano, Martina Semmler-Schmetz & Saskia Rohmer (Advice - From info snack to special menu: Solutions of the MedMA-Bib), Stefan Nortmann (The 'Ersti-Café' of the Medical Branch Library Münster), Sandra Rümmele (Toolbox: The new teaching library project of the Central Medical Library of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf), Eva Seidlmayer & Christoph Poley (One Health -TransdisciplinarityatZB MED) and Heike Andermann ("Medical Libraries: inter:disciplinary - inter:national -inter:active". Annual Meeting of the German Medical Library Association (AGMB), September 25 to 27, 2017 in Vienna). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Stefan Grün & Christoph Poley (Statistical evaluation of semantic entities from metadata and full text on German Medical Science corpora) and Iris Reimann (German MLA News; Competition of the German MLA Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2017: Introduction of the winners; Competition of the German MLA (AGMB) Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2018 - Announcement). [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]

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]

The focus of the current issue 3/2015 of GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information is the annual conference 2015 of the German Medical Libraries Association in Mannheim. The motto of the conference was "Libraries in progress". The authors in this issue are Bruno Bauer (Research data - a new field of activity (also) for libraries), Markus Fischer (Search filter for local holdings in bibnet.org), Ursula Georgy (Strategic marketing: Benefit positioning strategy of libraries as a content provider in competition), Mareike Grisse (Reading and understanding licensing agreements for electronic resources), Regine Küfner Lein (Access to medical full texts and databases in Norway by national licensing), Annette Kustos (Collection management and service concept at the academic library of the Hochschule für Gesundheit), Oliver Weiner (Medical documents in university repositories), Sabine Buroh (Impressions from the EAHIL Workshop, Edinburgh, 10-12 June 2015), Mareike Grisse (Supra-regional availability of licensed electronic content - ZB MEDs' new models), Jana Pössel (LIVIVO: The new ZB MED search portal for life sciences), Jasmin Schmitz (Offering advice on open access publishing in libraries), Fabian Gail (Product and innovation management ZB MED) and Dagmar Härter (Medical libraries: libraries in progress - annual meeting 2015 of the German MLA, September 7th to 9th at Basel, Switzerland). Furthermore this focus issue features articles from Eike Hentschel (Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2015: Introduction of the winners) and Iris Reimann (German MLA News; Pioneer projects in medical libraries 2016 - Announcement). [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]

This report outlines the status quo concerning the Open Access activities of the 21 Austrian public universities. The findings are based on a survey conducted with affiliated university libraries in February and March 2012. The survey was published as a report in May 2013 and paints a mixed overall picture that is at least characterised by a few remarkably successful activities on the local level. Nonetheless, the developments outlined in this study have gained momentum in the last months. Particularly the recent launch of OAN A can be perceived as a turning point. Thus further support and implementation of Open Access at Austrian public universities have become more achievable than ever before. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Helmut Hartmann responds to questions on the introduction of electronic full text resources in Austrian academic libraries as well as consortia, covering the development from the pioneering days of the late nineties to the institutional establishment of the Austrian Academic Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich). Both major achievements and unfulfilled desiderata of his directorship are mentioned. Starting out from his rich experience, he provides some interesting insights into international collaboration for consortial licenses and highlights the relationship between publishers and consortia. The interview also reflects Hartmann's personal view on the open access movement and the future of libraries and consortia. Finally drawing upon his expertise as a lecturer of LIS at various universities and the Austrian National Library, he pleads for courage, curiosity and commitment as the most desirable qualities in future librarians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The VÖB-Mitteilungen discussed with Federal Minister Karlheinz Töchterle the following issues: – Master plan for higher education and research libraries – Austrian Library Network (OBV) – Open access and national repositories – Future of (academic) libraries [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Task Force on "Open Access at universities in Austria" was set up by the Council of Austrian University Libraries in November 2011. The group was charged with the analysis of the current policy framework of Open Access and to identify projects that deal with the "golden road" and the "green road" to Open Access at universities in Austria. The working group started off by conducting a survey in early 2012 of all Austrian university libraries to gather information on their experiences with the implementation of Open Access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities has created awareness for Open Access also among Austrian scientists, librarians and funding organizations. Due to the lack of initiatives on the national level, Open Access activities in Austria are currently taken on mainly by the Vienna University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Science Fund. More than 40 Austrian scientists have expressed their arguments in favor of Open Access in testimonials which have been available online since summer 2012 on the website of the Austrian Science Fund. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The EU funded Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP) run from March 2009 to February 2011. More than 53.000 people worldwide participated in this online-survey on the Golden Road to Open Access, among them about 46.000 scholars. The paper will put a spotlight on the input of the 462 Austrian scientists who took part in this survey. It analyses their answers to 9 selected questions out of the survey's original total of 23 questions. A focus is put on significant differences in these answers between scientists from Austria and Germany. The financial supporting structure for Open Access in Austria is quite dissimilar from Germany hence differences should be expected. Even so 89% of scientists in both countries agree that Open Access is helpful in their own field of research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]