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Free access to scientific and scholarly information for everyone, everywhere: that is open access.

At open-access.network, you will find not only information about open access, but also a wide range of training and networking opportunities, which we cordially invite you to avail of. The oa.helpdesk offers concrete individual advice.

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News

Austria in the oa.atlas

More data, better overview: Open Access monitoring tool boosts collaboration and networking in German-speaking countries

Call for Proposals: Open-Access-Tage 2026

Beiträge zu Verantwortung, offenen Infrastrukturen und dem Wandel wissenschaftlicher Publikationsformate gesucht – als Vorträge, Workshops, Poster…

Events

Magnifying Open Science II: Case studies and narratives (online)

26. March 2026

Open Science is not only about open research outputs, such as open access publications, code and data, but also about values and principles that underpin Open Science practices. Monitoring various practices and processes, like research design and collaboration, that promote openness in the Social Sciences and Humanities is not straightforward and requires a qualitative approach.

In this event we would like to bring together different qualitative approaches, such as case studies and narratives, and discuss how these approaches can be operationalised and contextualised within the Social Sciences and Humanities for Open Science Monitoring purposes.

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What is Open Access?

Open Access Days

With around 400 participants, the Open Access Days are the annual central platform for the steadily growing Open Access and Open Science community from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They address all interested in the possibilities, conditions, and perspectives of scholarly publishing. This includes employees of libraries and other science infrastructure institutions and publishers as well as scientists and members of science administration.