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The Universities Austria (UNIKO)-founded OSA – Open Science Austria initiative serves as the new national contact point for networking activities and information surrounding Open Science at Austrian universities.
The Open Science Network Austria (OANA) and its activities have been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone involved in OANA activities in the years 2012-2021 and everyone who supported the network's work towards Open Science.
Support of infrastructures
In cooperation with national and international stakeholders, Austrian institutions are actively involved in discussions and negotiations on the conversion of the publication system to Open Access. Below we provide an overview of the most important partner institutions and projects.
arXiv.org
With over 2,000,000 documents, arXiv is the most important subject repository for physics, mathematics etc.
Website: http://arxiv.org/
Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
The "Confederation of Open Access Repositories" (COAR) fosters visibility of research output by connecting repositories.
Website: http://www.coar-repositories.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The "Directory of Open Access Journals" (DOAJ) is a freely available directory of quality tested OA journals.
Website: http://doaj.org
Europe PMC
Europe PMC is a repository providing access to worldwide life sciences articles, books, patents, and clinical guidelines.
Website: https://europepmc.org/
Knowledge Unlatched
Knowledge Unlatched is an initiative that promotes Open Access books. This worldwide consortium collectively funds selected books so they can be made freely available on open portals such as OAPEN.
Website: http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org
Participating institutions from Austria: Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna
OAPEN
The OAPEN Library contains freely available scholarly books, mostly from the humanities and social sciences. OAPEN cooperates with publishers to establish a quality tested collection of Open Access books and offers services to publishers, libraries and funders in the areas of quality assurance, dissemination, and digital long-term preservation.
Website: http://oapen.org
Participating institutions from Austria: Austrian Science Fund, University of Vienna, Böhlau publishing, Holzhausen publishing
Open Knowledge Maps
Open Knowledge Maps is dedicated to dramatically improving the visibility and reusability of scientific knowledge. To this end, the charitable nonprofit organization provides a visual interface to the world's scientific knowledge following the principles of open science.
Website: https://openknowledgemaps.org/
Participating institutions from Austria
Open Library of Humanities (OLH)
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is an initiative for Open Access journals in the humanities and social sciences that was founded by scholars from Great Britain in 2015. Currently, the platform provides about 20 Open Access journals.
Website: https://www.openlibhums.org/
SciPost
SciPost is a platform for open access publications in the field of physics. Being managed by professional scientists, and making use of editor-solicited and contributed reviews, its journals aim at the highest achievable standards of refereeing.
Website: http://scipost.org
SCOAP3 – Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics
The SCOAP3 project makes the publisher's version of articles from the field of high energy physics freely available.
Website: http://scoap3.org