The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, infrastructure organizations, librarians, researchers and other interested parties to advocate and promote the unrestricted availability of the abstracts of the world's scholarly publications, particularly journal articles and book chapters, in trusted repositories where they are open and machine-accessible.
For 17 months, the Bibsam Consortium did not have an agreement with the world’s largest scholarly publisher, Elsevier. There is now a summary of the consequences for the consortium, the concerned organizations and their researchers.
Mit der Initiative MAP fördern die Universität zu Köln und die Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München forschungsstarke junge Geisteswissenschaftler zu Beginn ihrer Karriere. Im Rahmen eines Kooperationsprojektes publiziert MAP ausgewählte Dissertationen und Publikationen von advanced talents aus den geisteswissenschaftlichen Fächern der beiden Universitäten in unterschiedlichen Formaten Open Access unter der Lizenz CC BY 4.0.