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Description
The DFG-funded Transform2Open project addresses the development of budgets, criteria, competencies, and related processes at research-performing organizations around the financial dimensions of the Open Access transformation.
The Transform2Open project supports transformation activities at research institutions in Germany through the following actions:
(1) Improving and further developing cost monitoring; (2) promoting the interplay of library budgets, third-party funding, and other financial resources at research institutions to create overarching information budgets; (3) further development of criteria for contracts with commercial publication service providers, optimizing workflows around the handling of publications and associated metadata and invoices; (4) promoting transparency around the financial framework of the OA transformation and identifying organizational structures and (5) competence profiles for professionals involved in Open Access transformation at research institutions.
Transform2Open organizes dialog forums and develops actions of recommendation for strategies, concepts, and measures for shaping the Open Access transformation at universities and non-university research institutions.
The project ensures the successful interaction of various transformative efforts with the DEAL project and other initiatives and projects in Germany.
Partners of the Transform2Open project are the Central Library of Forschungszentrum Jülich, the Helmholtz Association's Open Science Office, and the Potsdam University Library.
