Open Access office hours every Friday 10-10:30 AM via Zoom. Publication funding, secondary rights, licenses – individual consultation for TUHH members.
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Open Access Week 2025: Who owns our knowledge? How predatory publishing threatens control over research and how you can protect yourself.
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TUB supports arXiv and other open infrastructures to safeguard academic freedom and independent research.
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Welcome to the international Open Access Week 2025 at TU Hamburg.
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Collect, Write, Publish 2025: Building Reliable Research Practices in the Digital Age. 90 minutes each Wednesday from 1 pm: On January 29, 2025 – organized by the Graduate Academy of the TU Hamburg and the library – a new series of nine short workshops on tools for the research process relevant to doctoral candidates at
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Diamond Open Access through financing consortia: What is it all about? Due to the rising costs caused by the transformation agreements, the TUB is increasingly committed to engage in alternative financing models in the area of open access publishing. This also includes participation in sustainable funding structures for renowned Diamond Open Access journals and book
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Open access not only means that scientific publications are freely accessible online, but also that they can be reused flexibly and transparently. This can be ensured by issuing open licenses. A well-known and widespread example: Creative Commons (CC) licenses. CC licenses provide a legal framework to regulate the use of content by third parties. For
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Virtual consultation hour: Ask questions about Predatory Publishing, publishing contracts, CC licenses and other Open Access topics during #OAWeek 2024!
In recent years, the option of publishing open access in specialist journals has become increasingly established. Scientific content can thus be read by all interested parties without payment barriers. This benefits the efficiency of global research, as it is possible to quickly check whether quality-checked, freely available literature is already available (Wienert 2021). “While open
The motto of this year’s Open Access Week “Community over Commercialization” focuses on a central question: Who owns (scientific) knowledge? At a time when academic publishers dominate the communication process of research results (either through expensive subscription models or now increasingly through publication fees), scholar-led publishing offers a way for the scientific community to regain
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