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Open Science
EUPeace promotes open science, open education, and open data practices as central to our institutional and Alliance-wide activities on peace, justice, and inclusion. We fully support the EU Open Science approach to improve the quality, efficiency, and responsiveness of research, and strictly follow the FAIR principles for research data and self-developed research software.
Below is a list of initiatives, ressources, and trainings established at our member universities.
Open Science Initatives
University of Marburg
- UMR is clearly committed to Open Access and adopted its official Open Access Policy in 2015. As described in the Open Access Policy, Philipps-Universität Marburg supports its researchers in publishing Open Access and encourages them to make their research freely available.
- The UMR University Library supports financing articles or monographs in Gold Open Access with the DFG-funded Open Access Fund. If you fulfil all the necessary requirements, your Open Access publication fees can be paid from the fund.
- UMR provides the Open Journal Systems (OJS) software to editors who wish to have their journal hosted by the University Library as an open access journal. OJS enables your journal to have a professional web presence and supports the editorial workflow.
Justus Liebig University Giessen
- JLU supports Gold Open Access publication channels for journal articles and books (monographs and edited volumes) via the Open Access Publication Fund (https://www.uni-giessen.de/ub/de/publizieren/openaccess/oafonds).
- JLU participates in transformation and publishing agreements for publishing in Open Access (https://www.uni-giessen.de/ub/de/publizieren/openaccess/rabatte_oa).
- Open Journal System: The publishing of journals is supported by an Open Journal System (OJS). The OJS is used by the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), which was established as part of the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments, for the review journal Kult_online and the peer-reviewed journal On_Culture (https://www.on-culture.org/).
University of West Bohemia
- UWB signed Berlin Declaration in 2015 and supports Green Path, publishing in a printed periodical and depositing in an open repository.
- UWB is in the process of transforming to the golden path (on UWB implementation via CzechElib). Transformative agreements (2023 – 2025) - e-resources: CzechELib (https://www.czechelib.cz/en/); Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor&Francis, Emerald: limited number of tokens for OA publishing; CUP, ACM, SCOAP3: unlimited OA publishing; Sage: APC discount for publishing. Further information: https://www.czechelib.cz/en/442-instructions-for-authors
- There is an annual monitoring of APC, support in creating Persistent Identifiers (PID - Authors ID (ORCID,etc.), DOI, ROR) as well as methodological support to authors (publishing, predatory journals, etc.), including an institutional promotion of OA publishing. But there is no University Open Access Fund to support the payment of publication fees.
University of Sarajevo
- Links to Open Access Initiatives at UNSA:
Oriental Institute (https://pof.ois.unsa.ba/index.php/pof)
Language Institute (https://www.e-bosanski.ba/e-izdanja/)
Faculty of Law (https://www.pfsa.unsa.ba/pf/biblioteka/e-izdavastvo/ and https://www.pfsa.unsa.ba/pf/biblioteka/godisnjak/)
Faculty of Islamic Sciences (https://fin.unsa.ba/zbornik-radova/)
Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (https://genapp.ba/)
Faculty of Crminalistics, Criminology and Security Studies (https://krimteme.fkn.unsa.ba/index.php/kt and https://izdavastvo.fkn.unsa.ba/index.php/eknjige)
Faculty of Architecture (https://af.unsa.ba/izdavacka-djelatnost/izdanja/)
Faculty of Philosophy (https://ejournals.ff.unsa.ba/index.php/radovi/index)
Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science (https://ppf.unsa.ba/radovi.php).Open Research Repository
University of Marburg
- UMR adopted a research data policy for supporting researchers in research data management and in the preparation and publication of their data in accordance with the FAIR data principles (FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). This work is institutionally supported by the eResearch Service Center (https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/research/contact/eresearch). The topics of research data management and FAIR open data are also dealt with in the regional context of the Hessian Research Data Infrastructures (HeFDI, https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/forschung/kontakt/eresearch/eresearch-trainings/hefdi-angebote) and three consortia of the national research data infrastructures (NFDI)
- UMR offers an open research data repository: https://data.uni-marburg.de/
Justus Liebig University Giessen
- Open Access repository JLUpub: Golden and green Open Access publications are made accessible via the institutional repository, the central infrastructure for OA publishing at JLU. Both research data (JLUdata) and text publications (JLUdocs) can be published on the repository.
Comillas Pontifical University
- Comillas’ open institutional repositories that can be accessed vie these links: https://www.comillas.edu/pdi-pas/#repositorio-institucional and https://repositorio.comillas.edu/jspui/handle/11531/5. It depends on each researcher to define if the publication/results are public or private in our repository.
University of West Bohemia
- UWB offers an Institutional Repository: Digital Library (https://dspace5.zcu.cz/) including theses and habilitations defended at UWB, fulltexts of the publishing activities of UWB authors, Open access articles and monographs published by UWB
- The UWB University Library addresses the topic of research data management by cooperating in the creation of a Data Management Plan (Data Management Steward)
University of Sarajevo
- The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering is currently in the process of making an R&D(igital) platform that will contain this data.
- The Language Institute (https://www.e-bosanski.ba/dijak/), the Faculty of Islamic Sciences (https://fin.unsa.ba/tekuci-projekti/), the Faculty of Philosophy (https://ejournals.ff.unsa.ba/index.php/radovi/index) and the Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (REBIDA - Regional Biodiversity Database, server is under construction) have Open Research Repositories.
Open Educational Resources
University of Marburg
- UMR has a policy on Open Educational Resources (https://uni-marburg.de/PCkxLd) and Open Educational Resources are already and can be published on ILIAS (https://uni-marburg.de/sGutg2).
- OSIUM Open Educational Resources: https://osf.io/yrh7n/
University of Sarajevo
- The Language Institute (https://www.e-bosanski.ba/bravo/ & https://www.e-bosanski.ba/ori/), the Faculty of Islamic Sciences (https://digital.ghb.ba/ghb/users/index.xhtml & https://fin.unsa.ba/elektronska-izdanja/), the Faculty of Philosophy (https://ebooks.ff.unsa.ba/index.php/ebooks_ffunsa/index) and the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science (https://ppf.unsa.ba/uploads/Dokumenti/IZDATE%20KNJIGE%20UPOSLENIKA%202010-2017.pdf) provide Open Educational Resources.
- The Faculty of Architecture has a selection of public lectures by invited lecturers: https://af.unsa.ba/video-2/.
Trainings and Workshops
University of Marburg
- The MArburg Research Academy (MARA) offers an Open Science program including workshops on research data management, open methods and reproducibility, open source, open research in (digtal) humanities and open access: https://uni-marburg.de/3sYZJI
- Organisation of Open Science Days
- Train the Trainer Retreat on digital skills in research
- A university-wide Open Science Newsletter informs about local Open Science activities
Justus Liebig University Giessen
- Videos on open access publishing on the Giessen University Library YouTube channel: Videos on various topics, including those relating to OA publishing (e.g. JLU Publication Fund https://youtu.be/R52EwLCIDKI, OA books https://youtu.be/ovvyYOoQUYY, CC licences https://youtu.be/aCgijfJltyY, Predatory Publishing https://youtu.be/rJnT0v3M1w4) are made available on the Giessen University Library YouTube channel.
- Training courses for different target groups on Open Access and Open Science: Students are introduced to the topics of Open Access and Open Science as part of the two modules Information and Data Management I+II, which are offered by the University Library as part of various degree programmes and are each worth 3 ECTS credits. In six thematic blocks, they acquire an understanding of the importance of open science; the OA team reaches young academics via long-established and regular workshops on OA publishing at the Giessen Graduate Center for Life Sciences (GGL), Giessen Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and the Giessen Graduate Center for Social Sciences, Business Economics and Law (GGS). Organisation of Open Access Information Days
University of West Bohemia
- Educational events/seminars on Open Access and Open Science created by library information staff for academics and doctoral students
- Organisation of an Open Access Week
University of Sarajevo
- The Language Institute (https://www.e-bosanski.ba/bosanski-akcenatski-prirucnik/), the Faculty of Medicine (https://mf.unsa.ba/), and the Faculty of Philosophy (https://ebooks.ff.unsa.ba/index.php/ebooks_ffunsa/index) at UNSA have approaches to include open science in teaching.
Open Access Initiatives
University of Marburg
- Information and local services are gathered in the UMR official Open Science Website: https://www.uni-marburg.de/open-science
- The Open Science Initiative University Marburg (OSIUM) is a grassroot initiative promoting open science at Marburg University. OSIUM is a working group consisting of open science enthusiasts from every career stage and a variety of research fields who collaborate with local services as well as national and international initiatives.
University of Limoges
- Development of an Open Science blueprint.
Comillas Pontifical University
- The University Library intends to implement a project on creating an Open Science Policy.
