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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]

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]

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]

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]

In December the higher education structural funds project (Hochschulraumstrukturmittelprojekt) "Austrian Transition to Open Access (AT2OA)" was authorised by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. The 21 public universities cooperate on this project running from 2017 to 2020 in order to promote open access through concerted measures. Constitutive on OANA's "suggestions for the implementation of Open Access in Austria" published in 2015 four subprojects have been developed. These subprojects' main focuses are drafting an expert's report about the financial impact of a total adjustment to open access on a national and institutional basis, the extension of existing consortium licences with an open access component, establishment of an open access publishing fund as well as the promotion of open access monographs and suitable open access infrastructures. [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]

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 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]

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]

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 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to scientific knowledge was published in October 2003. All over the world initiatives and projects were started. However, in Austria Open Access got little attention over many years. This was confirmed by a study among Austrian universities on behalf of the Council of Austrian University Libraries. Finally at the turn of the year 2012/2013 the Open Access Network Austria and the university infrastructure project E-Infrastructure Austria were started to push Open Access in Austria on a national level. So 10 years after the Berlin Declaration Austria set up the preconditions to establish sustainable Open Access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]