Im Sinne der Berliner Erklärung bekennt sich die TU Bergakademie Freiberg in ihrer neuen Open-Access-Policy zu den Prinzipien des offenen Zugangs zu wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen. Sie ermuntert Ihre Angehörigen, diese Prinzipien zu unterstützen und gibt Handlungsempfehlungen. Die Policy bildet einen Baustein im Kontext von Open Science, in welchem der barrierearme, rechtssichere Umgang, die Weiterverarbeitung und Langzeitarchivierung von Forschungsdaten, Bildungsmaterialien, Software u.a. geregelt werden muss.

Die Open-Access-Angebote der Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz unter der Plattform MONARCH+ werden vorgestellt. Hierbei wird der Mehrwert einer Open-Access-Publikation hervorgehoben. Mit den aktuellen Projekten OAPS - Open Access PlagiatSuche (TU Braunschweig), DOARC (Distributed Open-Access Reference Citation services) Erschließung von Zitationen in verteilten Open-Access-Repositorien, OA-Statistik und OA Policies (alle Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation e. V.) sollen Repositorien unterstützt sowie zusätzliche Verbesserungen für Autoren und Leser geschaffen werden. Ein Einblick in die Tätigkeit des Universitätsverlages Chemnitz wird gegeben.

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In this article open access is defined, and the resources and issues of greatest relevance to the medical librarian are discussed. The economics of open access publishing is examined from the point of view of the university library. Open access resources, both journals and articles in repositories, are already significant and growing rapidly. There are close to 2300 fully open-access peer review journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (320 health sciences titles are included). DOAJ is adding titles at a rate of 1.5 per day. An OAIster search of resources in repositories includes more than 7.6 million items (a rough estimate of the number of articles in repositories, although not all items are full text), and this number will exceed one billion items before the end of 2007. Medical research funders, including the US National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust, the UK Medical Research Council, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, either have implemented or are considering open access policies. This will drive greater growth in open access resources, particularly in the area of medicine. There are implications and leadership opportunities for librarians in the open access environment.

Open access is being talked about, and implemented, around the globe, by everyone from the U.N. to individual authors, editors, and publishers, and collaborative groups. As of October 2004, requests for a government mandate for OA had gone forward not only in the U.S. and the U.K., but also Croatia. The Scielo (Scientific Electronic Online) collections of Latin America are very substantial, fully open access journal collections. In the developing world, OA is seen not only as the best means to access the research results of others, but as an opportunity to contribute their own scholarly research findings. Outside the U.S. and the U.K., profits from scientific publishing are not common, and subsidies are not unusual. The author predicts that the present slow but steady growth in institutional repositories will be replaced in the near future by dramatic growth.

This article discusses the benefits of Open Access to library literature. It cites examples of library associations practicing Open Access.

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Conferencia realizado del 12 al 14 de setiembre en Lima, Peru del 2012 en el marco del 15º Simposio Internacional de Tesis y Disertaciones Electrónicas (ETD 2012). Evento aupiciado por la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM) y la Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC). / Institutional Repositories (IRs) and ETD programs conducted in December 2011. The purpose of the survey was two-fold. The first was to show the growth of Institutional Repositories (IRs) across Canada. The second was to illustrate the state of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) submission programs at Canadian institutions. The survey was a follow up to a 2009 survey and illustrates there has been steady growth in both the number of IRs and ETD programs in Canada. Results of the survey include statistics on the number of IRs, types of materials in the IRs, the type software platform, the number of ETD programs, whether electronic submission is mandatory, if embargoed or restricted theses and dissertations are allowed, the number of institutions having their ETDs harvested by Library and Archives Canada and the number of institutions sending their theses to ProQuest and retaining a microfiche copy. The survey was sent to Canadian institutions where a thesis or dissertation is required for graduation and to Canadian institutions who are members of the Canadian Association for Research Libraries. Responses were received from 33 institutions. Best practices for ETD programs and workflows will also be discussed. Focus areas include the PDF format for multiple and multi-media files, OAI-PMH harvesting, mandatory submission and embargoes. By analyzing the results of the survey, it is clear that Canada is moving forward quickly in the implementation of ETD submission programs. The fact that over 70% of Canadian institutions have their ETDs harvested by Library and Archives Canada puts Canada, and it’s National Library, in a unique position to share its knowledge and expertise in ETD programs and ETD workflows.