Open Access

In our Coffee Lecture series, information about open access publishing is provided in short videos. This information is particularly relevant for young researchers and scientists.

This video helps to choose the right journal. No matter which Open Access route is chosen, the quality of the journal should be appropriate. Here we present various tools for selecting the most suitable journal.

In this video we inform you about the advantages of the platform-independent Open Researcher and Contributer ID (ORCID) for scientists.

The topic of predatory publishers appears constantly in the media. This video will help you recognise predatory journals and avoid falling for them.

In this short video, you’ll get an overview of Open Access pathways and transformation agreements. The video covers the DEAL project, transformation agreements at RPTU, the funding of APCs, authors’ cost-sharing under DEAL, and the opt-out procedure. Finally, it discusses the pros and cons of Open Access, Creative Commons licenses, and author profiles.

Not all the media you need are licensed by your library. This video shows legal ways to get behind the paywall. We present various free browser add-ons that enable legally compliant access.

This Coffee Lecture covers various aspects of publishing in the context of third-party funded projects: financial funding opportunities, the choice of license, in particular regarding CC BY and CC BY NC-ND, the correct citation of funding information, and the advantages of an ORCID iD.