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Open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...
to scholarly communication in Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
has developed in the 2010s largely through government initiatives. The Austrian Science Fund and launched the "Open Access Netzwerk Austria" in 2012 to coordinate country-wide efforts. The "E-Infrastructures Austria" project began in 2014 to develop repositories. The international advocacy effort "OpenscienceASAP – Open Science as a Practice" is based in Austria.
Repositories
There are a number of collections of scholarship in Austria housed in digitalopen access repositories
An open repository or open-access repository is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such reposito ...
. They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read.
Timeline
Key events in the development of open access in Austria include the following: * 2007 ** June: International Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Vienna. * 2012 ** Open Access Netzwerk Austria established. * 2014 ** E-Infrastructures Austria begins.See also
* Internet in Austria
* Education in Austria
The Republic of Austria has a free and public school system, and nine years of education are mandatory. Schools offer a series of vocational-technical and university preparatory tracks involving one to four additional years of education beyo ...
* Media of Austria
* List of libraries in Austria
This is a list of libraries in the Republic of Austria.
National libraries
* Austrian National Library (''Österreichische Nationalbibliothek''), Vienna
* Austrian Academy of Sciences Library (''Bibliothek der Österreichischen Akademie der Wis ...
* Open access in other countries
References
Further reading
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* * * * * Academia in Austria Communications in AustriaAustria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
Science and technology in Austria
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