Open Access Publishing 2019 - 2020 / HAWK

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Viöl
• Term: from 2018 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 414172647

The University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HAWK) qualifies its nearly 6,000 students in 6 faculties at Hildesheim, Holzminden and Göttingen in 20 Bachelor's and 14 Master's degree programs. In addition to pure teaching, research at the HAWK has been steadily gaining in importance over the last few years, resulting in a doubling of the third-party funds raised in just three years (from 2016 to 2017, an increase of 27%). In order to sustainably improve the framework conditions for researchers at the HAWK, the university has in recent years, in addition to pure research projects, increasingly implemented and applied projects for research infrastructures (structural, administrative and organizational). The resulting improved research infrastructure in combination with large-scale research projects with a long duration has led to a significant expansion of research at the HAWK in recent years. In order to make the results of their own research available to the largest possible scientific community free of charge, the HAWK wishes to publish the results in open access journals (peer review. In order to support its scientists in the best possible way in open access publishing, the HAWK wants to establish sustainable and reliable structures for the funding of open access publications through funding at the university. In this way, the HAWK would like to encourage and support its scientists to disseminate research results via open access publishing, thereby enabling immediate and the widest possible access to their scientific work, thereby increasing the citation rate of the publications on the one hand and the HAWK clearly gains in national and international visibility.For this purpose, the requested funding should provide HAWK employees with funds to finance open access publications. At the same time, the university will develop, establish and consolidate supporting, organizational and administrative structures. Organizationally, the open access publication fund will be integrated into existing structures of technology transfer and research. For sustainable data collection, an interface between the fund and the libraries and the new research information system (FIS) of the HAWK will be created.The common interface to the FIS will be established through the newly created FIS Agent, which will also be responsible for the implementation and support of the Fund as an Open Access Agent.

• DFG Programme: Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)