Open access in Austria

Open access to scholarly communication in Austria has developed in the 2010s largely through government initiatives. The Austrian Science Fund and Universities Austria [de] launched the "Open Access Netzwerk Austria" in 2012 to coordinate country-wide efforts.^[1][2] The "E-Infrastructures Austria" project began in 2014 to develop repositories.^[3] The international advocacy effort "OpenscienceASAP – Open Science as a Practice" is based in Austria.^[4][5]

Growth of open access publications in Austria, 1990-2018

Repositories

There are a number of collections of scholarship in Austria housed in digital open access repositories.^[6] 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.^[7]
• 2012
  • Open Access Netzwerk Austria established.
• 2014
  • E-Infrastructures Austria begins.

See also

Number of open access publications in various Austrian repositories, 2018

• Internet in Austria
• Education in Austria
• Media of Austria
• List of libraries in Austria
• Open access in other countries