We are in favor of of OPEN ACCESS
We are actively engaged for a change in scientific publishing!
To read scientific publications, you must either pay a great deal of money or none at all. The Open Access movement is dedicated to ensuring anyone in science, policy, or civil society can freely access scientific literature. We actively contribute to this paradigm shift through several actions and efforts. As founder and editor-in-chief of the OA journal Fungal Biology and Biotechnology (on Twitter: @FBBiotech) and as the open access representative at TU Berlin, Vera Meyer is among the first scientists in Germany to have resigned from their editorial work for the Closed Access publisher Elsevier and endorse the goals of the nationwide Projekt DEAL.
Panel discussion on the future of scientific publishing at TU Berlin
In 2019, the TU Berlin University Press celebrated its 50th anniversary. Under the title “One look back and two forward,” a panel discussion was held at the University Library on 22 October 2019. In her opening talk, Professor Vera Meyer, open access representative at TU Berlin, discussed the future of scientific publishing. Her full remarks can be read here.
We would also like to provide a brief excerpt: " [...] We are only able to gain knowledge through theoretical and experimental work financed by taxpayer funds. Doesn't it seem obvious to make this knowledge freely available to the general public?”
Good to know
Below is a list of relevant news about the topic of open access. Enjoy!
- Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary journal access after refusing to pay fees. Nature News, January 2018
- Wissen schaffen und frei zugänglich machen- TU Berlin adopts Open Access Policy Article by Vera Meyer on the TU University Library blog, December 2017
- Openness and visibility of fungal bio(techno)logy. Editorial for the OA journal Fungal Biology and Biotechnology (@FBBiotech) by Vera Meyer, Corrado Nai & Alexander Idnurm, October 2017
- Angle Journal article on open access by Dr. C. Nai: "Kill the Bill - On open access scholarly publishing, and getting more for less"
- News regarding Projekt DEAL and its efforts to reach a nationwide agreement in Germany with the publisher Elsevier regarding OA policies.
Open Access news at TU Berlin and beyond
- Projekt DEAL and SPRINGER NATURE sign memorandum of understanding for the world’s largest transformative Open Access agreement
- Projekt DEAL signs Open Access agreement with Wiley
- OA newsletter of the TU Berlin University Library
- Statement from Vera Meyer in TU Intern 2/2018
- Panel discussion with Vera Meyer on quality criteria and standards in (open) science at Wikimedia addressing the question:“Is open science the better science?” (March 2018)
- TU-internal Open Access Newsletter