We will give a short insight how we, as a Helmholtz Research Centre, use our institutional repository OceanRep to monitor open access publication costs. We started with the first steps in 2016 and are still learning. We will show what already works quite well and where we experience technical or organizational challenges.
As a project partner of the JOIN² cooperation [1] and thus also as a supporter of the openCost project, the University Library of RWTH Aachen University collects data on publication costs in its institutional repository. The cost information on articles from the DEAL project from the years 2022 and 2023 was successfully harvested and integrated for the first time to OpenAPC.
The two-layered...
Through the “Open Access Publication Funding” programme [1], the German Research Foundation (DFG) is providing scientific institutions with financial support for open access publication fees. One of the programme’s key objectives is to enable a system of transparent monitoring of publication fees at scientific institutions, with the intent to leverage to the national and international level....
