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Die Universität Potsdam verwaltet seit 2015 einen DFG-geförderten Publikationsfonds. In den Publikationsjahren 2015 und 2017 wurden Outputanalysen durchgeführt. Open Access ist seit 2018 ein zentraler Bestandteil des Mittelverteilungsmodells. Der Artikel thematisiert die zentralen Erkenntnisse der letzten fünf Jahre und illustriert die entstandene Infrastruktur. Außerdem werden aktuelle Herausforderungen und mögliche Lösungsansätze der Transformation auf dem Weg hin zu 100 Prozent Open Access thematisiert. Since 2015, the University of Potsdam has been managing a publication fund sponsored by the German Research Foundation. Output analyses were carried out for the publication years 2015 and 2017. Open Access has been a key component of the fund distribution model since 2018. The article discusses key findings of the past five years and explains the infrastructure created for the task. It also discusses current challenges and possible approaches to paving the way for 100 percent Open Access publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

German research libraries are undergoing a major shift as the distributed system of 'Special Subject Collections' (Sondersammelgebiete) supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) transitions to a new, restructured program of 'Specialized Information Services for Research' (Fachinformationsdienste für die Wissenschaft). Many of the structural issues underlying the programmatic changes in German libraries are also at work in U. S. research libraries. This article reflects on the parallels and differences in approaches to cooperative collection development in U. S. and German research libraries and reports on an ongoing discussion between the DFG and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), a library consortium based in Chicago that supports international collections in libraries in and outside the U. S. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The replacement of the special subject collection system by the scientific information services programme constitutes a paradigm shift from infrastructural funding to project-based funding. The system of the nationwide provision with literature will no longer be sustainable; the long-term reliability will be lost. To an increasing extent, gaps will appear in the supraregional infrastructure of literature holdings, causing a fragmentation of the distributed German national library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]