1. WE STRENGTHEN
SCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES
IN AUSTRIA.

2. Open Access Book Funding by the
Austrian Science Fund - FWF
London
2nd of July 2013
Doris Haslinger
Stand-Alone Publications
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3. FWF- Funding Program for Scientific Publications
 Stand-alone Publications:
for scientific publications (like monographs, collections,…) of all
scientific areas
between 2009 and 2011 the applicants and publishers could
decide whether they want to archive the electronic version
open access
since the end of 2011 funding of scientific publications is
generally contingent on the fulfillment of the open access
obligation
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4. Open Access-book funding by FWF
December 2011: new guidelines for stand-alone publications
 Lump-sum grant up to EUR 14,000.00 for production, simultaneous
open access publication and editing
 Lump-sum grant up to EUR 18,000.00 for production, simultaneous
open access publication and foreign language editing or translation
 Additional grant up to EUR 2,000.00 if the publisher itself conducts
the peer review
no funding if applicants or publishers refuse to publish open
access
calculations for costs are not necessary
publishers are extremely interested in our funding program
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5. Open Access-book funding by FWF
 Improve the quality
Funding of peer review: stimulate the publishers to establish
their own „Peer Review System“
Funding of editing and foreign language editing: improve the
quality of the publications
 Force the visibility and the impact in the international scientific
community
Funding of translation: makes the publication more visible to the
scientific community, especially outside of Austria and the
German speaking countries.
Funding of Open Access: scientific outcomes are noticed by a
wider audience, publishers become more visible internationally
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6. FWF-E-Book-Library – Archiving
 Not successful on the webpage of the publisher - the open access
publication remained more or less hidden.
 FWF-E-Book-Library: open access repository for all stand-alone
publications funded by the FWF: https://e-book.fwf.ac.at
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7. FWF-E-Book-Library
 Online since August 2012
 Technical support via Phaidra
 April 2012: letter to 600 authors and 70 publishers
 August 2012: start with scanning and uploading FWF funded books
published since 2000
 June 2013: approximately 190 books online
 Archiving of books published since 2000
 Archiving of all new publications
 Archiving under CC-Licenses
 Export the digital books and metadata to OAPEN-Library, DOAB and
EUROPEANA
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8. FWF-E-Book-Library
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9. FWF-E-Book-Library in the OAPEN-Library
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10. FWF-E-Book-Library in DOAB
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11. FWF-E-Book-Library in EUROPEANA
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12. Ideas for the future
 Improve the quality
Certification for publishers with successful quality control and
quality improvement
 Force the visibility and the impact in the international scientific
community
Force English publications: obligatory translation into English for
some publications
For Open Access only CC-BY or CC-BY-NC
 Deal with new forms of publication
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13. Thank you for your attention!
 FWF-E-Book-Library:
https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/
 Open Access Policy:
http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/public_relations/oai/index.html
 Peer-Reviewed Publications:
http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/peer-reviewed_publications.html
 Stand-alone Publications:
http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/projects/stand_alone_publications.html
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