Open Access und Open Data. Positionen und Perspektiven der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Abstract

After the DFG signed the „Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities“, the organisation started to strengthen its commitment for the open sharing of re-usable publications and data. This is not only proven by dedicated funding guidelines and funding programmes, yet also by DFG’s commitment in science policy. The article shows how the concrete forms of DFG’s support for open access and open data can easily be derived from a few principles which are fundamental to all of DFG activities. The paper depicts the relevant funding guidelines and explains which funding instruments offer the opportunity to a scientific community to develop and deploy open-access-initiatives which specifically benefit the researchers. Furthermore, some funding programmes which target the establishment of specific open access infrastructures are presented. The transformation from the subscription model to a science communication which is characterized by open access can only succeed, however, if research institutions as well as researchers and scholars themselves consider the financial, technical and legal challenges and design the implementation in a way that is necessary for the open provision of research results