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In recent years the provision of information for Swiss universities has been promoted through funding of joint projects of the university libraries by the Swiss federation. Funding by the federation was and is understood as initial financing during the project phase. When the project stage is over, infrastructures and services to end users must be funded by the participating institutions themselves. The paper discusses the funding model which was employed in the transformation of the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries into permanent operation. Afterwards new challenges by the project E-lib.ch: Swiss Electronic Library with respect to its continuation will be discussed.
This thesis investigates the role of research institutions in Germany in transforming scholarly publishing
from subscription to Open Access in the field of scientific journals. Open Access transformation aims
to overcome the traditional subscription model to further innovative methods of digital scholarly communication.
The study examines the options open to higher education institutions and research performing organizations for shaping the Open Access transformation. The thesis presents a description of these options
in the areas of strategy and communication, services and infrastructures, business relations with publishers and cooperation. Then, the implementation of these options in practice was analyzed. For this
purpose, a survey was conducted among 701 academic institutions in Germany. The response rate of
403 responding institutions (57.49%) can be considered very positive.
This survey, which is probably the most comprehensive on the subject to date, shows that higher education institutions and research performing organizations in Germany have so far implemented only a
few options for promoting Open Access.
While the distribution of Open Access repositories is positive, the handling of Open Access publication
charges and the associated monitoring of publication costs are still at the beginning. The results of the
survey indicate a high need for action.
The presented quantitative survey closes the gap of missing data on Open Access in Germany. Based
on this new dataset, the study formulates recommendations for further engagement with the Open Access transformation at research institutions in Germany. One focus is on activities that arise in the area
of academic libraries.