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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]

Libraries of Austrian universities - federal universities, private universities and universities of applied sciences - as well as libraries of other research facilities cooperate in many fields. The article focuses on collaborations of facilities with a medical key aspect within the Austrian Library Network, the Austrian Academic Library Consortium and the Council of Austrian University Libraries. Furthermore infrastructure projects run by these libraries in the fields of online repositories, research data management and open access are portrayed. Finally the GMLA working group of Austrian medical librarians is introduced as an important forum for librarians of the spheres of medicine, pharmacy and public health to exchange their experiences and ideas. [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]