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What is Open Access?

The aim of Open Access is to make quality-assured scientific research results available via the Internet, free of financial, legal and technical barriers. The aim is to improve the supply of information to researchers and the transfer of research.

Interested parties can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search in, refer to and otherwise use the full texts in every conceivable legal way.

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences supports the Berlin Declaration https://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration and encourages its research members to publish in open access.

Some research funding organisations, for example the DFG, demand and promote open access publications.

Open Access is mainly done in two different ways, the "green" and the "golden" way. The green path describes the secondary publication of journal articles, monographs and research reports on the institutional repository h_docs. The corresponding documents are archived on this server and made freely accessible. h_docs offers this service free of charge to all members of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and with reliable organisational and technical standards.

The golden path describes the first publication in quality-assured open access journals. This path is supported at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences by the Open Access Publication Fund. This publication fund takes over the author accounts upon request. Further information can be found here: https://bib.h-da.de/services/open-access/open-access-foerderung/

If you have any questions about Open Access, please contact

Katharina Emig

Open Access Officer at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences

Central Library
Schöfferstr. 8
64295 Darmstadt
Tel.: 06151/16-30111
E-mail: open-access.bib@h-da.de