In 2020, Joachim Schöpfel and I planned to publish an anthology on research data, topics to be covered should include issues such as fake data (even then we were thinking…
On November 12, 2024, I had the pleasure of delivering a workshop titled “Scientific Publishing: Publication Strategies, Open Science, and Open Access” at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. This…
On October 22, 2024, I delivered a keynote lecture at the LundOnline Conference 2024 (not surprisingly held in Lund, Sweden) titled Balancing Aspirations and Outcomes: A Critical Look at Open…
The book „Open Divide: Critical Studies on Open Access“ edited by Joachim Schöpfel and me, Ulrich Herb, was published in 2018. It features contributions from various authors, including Richard Poynder,…
Plan S, an initiative by European funders to increase open access to journal articles, has led to progress but not in the way originally intended. Although it aimed to dismantle…
I am very happy to be giving a keynote on October 22nd at the LundOnline conference, which, despite its name, will take place in person in Sweden. The conference’s theme…
In September, a journalistic article on Diamond Open Access (by Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal and myself) and a preprint on Transformative Open Access Agreements (by Laura Rothfritz, Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal, and…
As some people abroad were interested in my earlier posts on the German DEAL contracts, I have decided to summarise here some key points of the new contracts with Wiley,…
As the year nears its end, it’s time for a look back at 2023 … My university job Summa cum Fraude In 2023, a project funded by the German Research…
On May 31st 2022, I gave a presentation at the German Library Congress (BiblioCon), specifically during the public session of the German Library Association (dbv) Commission for Acquisition and Collection…
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