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Activities planned by the individual institutions

This section provides an overview of the activities and events planned by the individual universities and non-university research institutes, libraries etc within the framework of international Open Access Week. To encourage cooperative exchanges, we have grouped the institutions according to federal state (Bundesland).

This list is intended to be a source of ideas for the many institutions that plan to participate in international Open Access Week but have not yet decided on a programme. It will be updated continually to include new activities and participating institutions.

Documentation

For informational purposes and as a source of ideas for Open Access Week 2010, we have compiled documentation (slides, photos, videos) of the national and international activities which took place within the framework of Open Access Week 2009.

The Alliance of German Science Organisations' Open Access Working Group hosted a podium discussion to mark the opening of international Open Access Week:

videos of the statements by the individual panel members and of the podium discussion (video)

The German radio station Deutschlandfunk covered Open Access Week in a programme on 20.10.2009:

International Open Access Week

Documentation of other national activities

Documentation of international activities

Baden-Wuerttemberg

Heidelberg

University of Heidelberg

Heidelberg University Library

Contact persons: Dr. Maria Effinger, Ulrike Faelsch, LL.M, Dr. Sabine Haeussermann

In addition to an opening event on 19 October 2009, workshops on a variety of themes will take place throughout the week.

Information on the activities planned by Heidelberg University Library is available here.

Presentation slides

Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIZ)

Library of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Contact person: Regine Tobias

Konstanz

University of Konstanz

University of Konstanz Library

Contact person: Anja Oberlaender

The following activities are planned:

Information booth in the foyer, probably with a continuous presentation
Information session on Open Access
Buttons for the staff of the University Library
In-house seminar (tentative)

Mannheim

University of Heidelberg

Library for the Medical Faculty of Mannheim

Contact person: Martina Semmler-Schmetz

Stuttgart

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Fraunhofer Information Center for Planning and Building

Contact person: Ulrike Kuesters

The following activities are planned:

Central activities:

Launch of an Open Access Newsletter (topics: Open Access publishing support fund, scientists' accounts of their personal experience with OA, information on OA publishers, important developments and news from the OA scene)
Brochures and flyers on Open Access and publishing support at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Measures to publicise the new publishing venture Fraunhofer Verlag and its hybrid publishing model that combines print and Open Access versions of Fraunhofer scientists' publications.

In addition, a range of activities are planned at over 50 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft institutes nationwide. These include:

Introductory talks on the subject of "Scholarly publishing and Open Access at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft"
Information booths in the institute libraries with material and literature on Open Access
Promotion entitled "Everything is so green! When self-archiving flourishes": Information management specialists help Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft authors to self-archive their already-published works in the Fraunhofer-ePrints repository

Stuttgart University

Libraries of Stuttgart University

Contact: Matthias Schulze

The following activities are planned:

Information booth at the Vaihingen branch of the UB Stuttgart on 20 October and at the library's city-centre headquarters on 22 October with a presentation of OA projects (OA Policies, OA Statistics)
Information booth offering material on Open Access
Presentation on making older publications accessible online via OPUS and library catalogues (Section 137l of German Copyright Act (UrhG) – granting of rights in respect of unknown types of use) taking University of Stuttgart scholars and scientists as an example

Photos

Ulm

University of Ulm

Communication and Information Center (kiz Ulm)

Contact person: Karin Zwiesler

Among other things, kiz Ulm will display posters at various locations (e.g. the Dissertation Department) to draw attention to Open Access Week. The posters will also feature a reference to the information booth at library headquarters. In addition, bookmarks will be distributed at the library service points. A circular letter enclosing a bookmark has been sent to the university's scholars and scientists to draw their attention to Open Access Week.

Moreover, kiz has put together an informative web page, which is in a prominent position on its website, and which will be available for a considerable time under the rubric News Articles.

Further information can be found here.

Bavaria

Garching

Max Planck Society

Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

Contact person: Dr. Gerda Maria Lucha

Martinsried

Max Planck Society

Library of the Max Planck Institutes for Biochemistry and Neurobiology

Contact person: Juliane Pohl

Munich

Bavarian State Library

Bavarian State Library (BSB)
Contact person: Gregor Horstkemper
Event series - "Field testing Open Access":

perspectivia.net - Online publications of the German Humanities Institutes Abroad. 19 October, 18:00 hrs
OstDok - The future platform for Eastern European documents on the Internet. 20 October 2009, 18.00 hrs
The Historical Encyclopaedia of Bavaria - An online reference work. 21 October 2009, 18:00 hrs
100(0) key documents on German and Russian history in the 20th century. 22 October 2009, 18:00 hrs

The events will take place in the seminar room (Schulungsraum, Kleiner Sitzungssaal) on the ground floor of the Bavarian State Library, Ludwigstrasse 16, 80539 Munich.

University of Munich

Library of the University of Munich

Contact person: Volker Schallehn

The following activities are planned:

information booth in the University Library from 19 - 22 October between 9:00 and 16:00 hrs
distribution of flyers in the faculties. Further information can be found here.

Regensburg

University of Regensburg

Library of the University of Regensburg

Contact person: Gernot Deinzer

The following activities are planned:

ceremony to mark the launch of the new repository
information booth on Open Access and the new repository
numerous events on Open Access in the various disciplines

Further information can be found here and in the detailed programme flyer (PDF, 34 KB).

Wuerzburg

University of Wuerzburg

Library of the University of Wuerzburg

Contact person: Kristina Hanig

The Library of the University of Wuerzburg will have information booths on Open Access at central campus locations from 19 to 22 October. The booths will be staffed from 11:00 to 14:00 hrs each day. The programme will include short talks, the presentation of the new OA journal Profil (Wuerzburg journal of university foreign language instruction), distribution of information material (incl. new flyer on OPUS Wuerzburg and Open Access)

Collection of statements by Wuerzburg scholars on the subject of Open Access; presentation of the statements on a poster at the information booths.

Berlin

Freie Universitaet Berlin

Center for Digital Systems

Contact persons: Dr. Katja Mruck, Rubina Vock

Freie Universitaet Berlin

University Library

Contact persons: Dr. Remco van Capelleveen, Antje Meye

Freie Universitaet Berlin

Center for the Promotion of Women's and Gender Studies

Contact person: Marco Tullney

The Center for Digital Systems, the Center for the Promotion of Women's and Gender Studies and the University Library of the Freie Universitaet Berlin are planning the following activities (not yet finalised):

Information booth presenting Open Access in general and the Freie Universitaet Berlin's Open Access policy and activities in particular
Distribution of flyers on various faculties' subject-based repositories and Open Access journals; distribution of Open Access buttons
Talk on Open Access
Short film about Open Access (tentative)
Information on Open Access for students
Information on Open-Access initiatives in Berlin and environs

Further information can be found here.

Photos, presentation slides Open Access at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (PDF, 3 MB)

Helmholtz Association

Helmholtz Center for Materials and Energy

Contact person: Wolfgang Fritsch

We are planning a Web-based "paper-chase" on the subject of Open Access, and information/discussion events on

Roads to literature at the Helmholtz Center Berlin
Seeing and being seen: Open Access at the Helmholtz Association and the Helmholtz Center Berlin
Open Data: Should research data be locked away or made accessible?

At the end of the week we plan to conduct an opinion poll on Open Access and on the week's events.

Humboldt University Berlin

Institute for Library and Information Science (IBI)

Contact person: Uwe Mueller

A number of activities will be conducted at the Humboldt University:

Podium discussion on "Open Access between freedom and coercion - Democratisation of science or expropriation of authors' intellectual property?"
Information event: "edoc roadshow"

Further information can be found here.

Photos and report

Humboldt University Berlin

e-journal: kunsttexte.de (Institute of Art History)

Contact: editorial team

Max Planck Society

Fritz Haber Institute

Contact person: Uta Siebeky

Universidad Internacional

Kolleg für Management und
Gestaltung nachhaltiger Entwicklung gGmbH

Contact person: Dario Jana-Castro

Social Science Research Center (WZB)

Library of the WZB

Contact person: Sebastian Nix

Presentation slides (PDF, 606 KB)

Brandenburg

Potsdam

Blog: Librarians are uncool

bibliothekaresinduncool.wordpress.com/

Contact person: Dieter Meer

The blog has started a survey on Open Access. Further information can be found here.

Helmholtz Association

Library of the Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein

Contact person: Roland Bertelmann

Further information can be found here.

Presentation slides

University of Potsdam

Library of the University of Potsdam

Contact person: Dagmar Schobert

Bremen

Bremerhaven

Helmholtz Association

Library of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research and the Helmholtz Open Access Project

Contact person: Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen

Hamburg

Helmholtz Association

Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

Contact persons: Zaven Akopov, Antje Daum

The following activities are planned:

an information booth in the library
numerous informative posters in the library corridor
distribution of flyers and other information material among the scientists working for DESY
direct contact with and briefing of the various group leaders
organisation of group seminars on general Open Access topics

Hamburg University of Technology

University Library (TUB HH) of the Hamburg University of Technology

Contact person: Thomas Hapke

There will be a short tutorial entitled "What does Open Access mean for me?" The tutorial, which is part of the SearchING series, will take place on
19 October at 13.30 hrs

Click here for more information.

Webblog of the TUHH

University of Hamburg

Hamburg State and University Library

Contact person: Isabella Meinecke

The State and University Library (Stabi) will celebrate Open Access Week with a blog campaign. Blog posts will focus primarily on Hamburg-related Open Access activities. Numerous members of the library staff and external experts will be participating in the campaign.

Blog campaign

Hesse

Frankfurt on Main

German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF)

DIPF, Leibniz Institute for Educational Research and Educational Information

Contact person: Günther Hansen

Kassel

University of Kassel

University Library of Kassel

Contact person: Gerd Richter

The following activities are planned:

Promotion of Open Access in front of the canteen and distribution of information material
Talks and a symposium in the evenings
Preparation of orange-coloured jelly (jello) modelled on the OA button; distribution free of charge

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Greifswald

University of Greifswald

GEOZON Science Media

Contact person: Sascha Fricke

Warnemuende

Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemuende

Library of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemuende

Contact person: Olivia Diehr

In the run-up to international Open Access Week a lecture on the subject of Open Access will take place on 16 October 2009 at 10.30 hrs. The purpose of the lecture is to stimulate discussion on Open Access.

Lower Saxony

Braunschweig

University of Braunschweig

Braunschweig University Library

Contact person: Dietmar Brandes

Helmholtz Association

Helmholtz Center for Infection Care - Library

Contact person: Axel Plähn

Further information can be found here.

Goettingen

University of Goettingen

Lower Saxony State and University Library

Contact person: Nina Gerlach

The following activities are planned:

Information booth for students in front of the library, Tuesday, October 20th
Article in the campus magazine

Hanover

University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Library of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Contact person: Christian Hauschke

German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) Hanover

TIB/University Library Hanover

Contact person: Lambert Heller

Joint activities of the TIB/University Library Hanover and Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts:

creation of a web page for Open Access Week
flyers and other promotional materials (floor stickers, posters etc)

Events:

Open Access - Electronic publishing at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts

20 October, 11:30 hrs und 14:00 hrs, Library of the Deaconry, Health and Social Studies Faculty of Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Blumhardtstr. 2, 30625 Hanover

21 October, 11:30 hrs and 14:00 hrs, Kurt-Schwitters-Forum, room 117, Expo Plaza 12, 30539 Hanover

22 October, 11:30 hrs and 14 hrs, Central Library of Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts, room 2, Ricklinger Stadtweg 118, 30459 Hanover

Open Access in Economics
23 October, 11:00 to 13:00 hrs, University of Hanover, Niedersachsensaal, Koenigsworther Platz 1, 30167 Hanover

Podcast and presentation slides

Website Open Access in Hanover

Hildesheim

University of Hildesheim

Library of the University of Hildesheim

Ansprechpartner: Ewald Brahms

Oldenburg

University of Oldenburg

Institute of History

Contact person: Joachim Losehand

Osnabrueck

University of Osnabrueck

University of Osnabrueck Library

Contact person: Jörg Schmitz

The following activities are planned:

Promotion of international Open Access Week on the library homepage and in posts in the library blog
Information events introducing Open Access to the library staff
Sticker action: stickers will be affixed to selected high-end journals in all the department librarie
Poster presentation on Open Access in the Philology / Cultural Studies Department Library
Distribution of openaccessweek.org bookmarks and display of materials from the information platform open-access.net, DINI, UNESCO etc.

North Rhine-Westphalia

Aachen

RWTH Aachen University

Library of the Geological Institute, RWTH Aachen

Contact person: Cornelia Lutter

Further information can be found here.

RWTH Aachen University

Central Library of The RWTH

Contact person: Roland Rappmann

RWTH Aachen University

The University Archive of Aachen University

Contact person: Klaus Graf

Bielefeld

Bielefeld University

Bielefeld University Library

Contact person: Dr. Karin Ilg-Hartbecke

The following activities are planned:

Information booth in the university hall presenting local Open Access projects and best-practice example
Talk on Open Access given by a Bielefeld scholar
Information events for the staff of the university library
Promotion of OA in university and university library media·

The target groups are students, faculty and library staff.

Photo

Bochum

Ruhr University Bochum

University Library of Bochum

Contact persons: Dr. Karolin Bubke, Erdmute Lapp

The following activity is planned:

Event entitled "Open Access and the bibliography of the Ruhr University Bochum"

Bonn

Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training

BIBB

Contact person: Dr. Astrid Recker

The following activities are planned:

Open Access Information Day for BIBB researchers as well as staff of neighbouring institutions on 21 October 2009 (continuous presentation, information material)
Information booth in the library where researchers can ask questions and receive information about the Open Access paradigm and the opportunities it offers (entire day)
Introductory talk on Open Access (offered several times during the day)

Report (PDF, 79,8 KB)

Duisburg

University of Duisburg-Essen

Library of the University of Duisburg-Essen

Ansprechpartner: Sigurd Praetorius

Dusseldorf

University of Dusseldorf

University and State Library

Contact person: Gabriele Dreis

Essen

University of Duisburg-Essen

Library of the University of Duisburg-Essen

Contact person: Ulrich Hoffmann

Gelsenkirchen

University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen

Institute for Work and Technology

Contact person: Karin Weishaupt

Jülich

Forschungszentrum Juelich (Juelich Research Centre)

Forschungszentrum Juelich - Central Library

Contact person: Edith Salz

There will be an information booth on scientific publishing in the reading room of the Central Library:

Poster presentation: services of the Central Library relating to scholarly publishing (publishing house, language service, bibliometrics) and how it benefits authors
Presentation of selected works published by the publishing house of the Forschungszentrum Juelich
JUWEL: Juelich's Open Access server which holds some 3,500 publications
Advice for authors at the Forschungzentrum's publishing house

Cologne

University of Applied Sciences Cologne

Library of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne

Contact person: Peter Dr. Otzen

University of Applied Sciences Cologne

Institute of Information Science

Contact person: Achim Osswald

North Rhine Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz)

hbz

Contact person: Kathrin Gitmans

University of Cologne

University and State Library Cologne

Contact person: Ralf Depping

German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) Cologne/Bonn

German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED)

Contact persons: Anita Eppelin, Dr. Tanja Meyer

The hbz, the ZB MED Cologne/Bonn, the University and State Library (USB) Cologne, Cologne University of Applied Sciences (the Institute of Information Science and the University Library), the Central Library of the German Sport University Cologne and the Library of the University of Bochum plan to conduct the following joint activities:

Series of talks on topics relating to Open Access from an author's perspective and to the participating institutions' Open Access projects (21/22.10.09)
Promotion stand with contact persons and information on the Open Access activities of the participating institutions and Open Access Week give-aways such as badges, stickers and balloons (21/22.10.09)
Promotion of OA in the public-service areas of the participating institutions (posters, bookmarks for library borrowers) (19-23.10.09)
In the run-up to Open Access Week, dispatch of material advertising the event to other interested institutions in North Rhine-Westphalia (on request and as long as stocks last)

Presentation slides

University of Cologne - Regional Computing Centre (RRZK)

Library of RRZK

Contact person: Gregor Teslau

Muenster

University of Muenster

University and State Library Muenster (ULB)

Contact persons: Stephanie Kloetgen, Viola Voss

The following activities are planned:

From 19 - 23 October there will be an information booth in the foyer of the ULB with information material and posters on Open Access. Among other things, the University of Muenster's scholarly series will be presented as a hybrid publishing option.
Posters in the institute libraries and the student canteen
Articles in the university magazine and the local press
Advertisements on the ULB website and in the ULB newsletter
Since the beginning of September: distribution of advertising strips, especially to university scholars

The German Pirate Party

Pirate Party, Muenster

Contact person: Bastian Greshake

Talk on Open Access at 19.30 hrs on 20 October at the culture café "Frauenstr. 24", 20 October, 7:30 p.m.

Summary of the talk:

Open Access is a concept that means nothing to most people. How does open access to knowledge work? Indeed, how does scholarly publishing work? What are the advantages of Open Access? And what can politics do to promote Open Access?

Presentation slides: Open Access - Free Access to Knowledge

Presentation slides: Open Access Publishing

Saarland

Saarbruecken

University of the Saarland

Saarland University and State Library (SULB)

Contact person: Ulrich Herb

The following activities are planned:

An OA workshop on 23 October where the arguments for and against Open Access will be discussed and a copyright expert (Professor Herberger), a CC expert and a number of editors and authors with experience of OA will give an account of their experiences.
Presentation of the Saarland University and State Library's existing OA projects. Some new OA journals and the university press may also be presented.

Further information can be found here.

Saxony-Anhalt

Stendal

Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Stendal

Department of Applied Human Sciences

Contact person: Guenter Mey

The following activities are planned:

information board and posters on Open Access
a talk on Open Access

Saxony

Chemnitz

University of Chemnitz

Library of the University of Chemnitz

Contact person: Ute Blumtritt

Information and discussion forum on Open Access focusing on authors' rights. Venue: Technical University (TU) of Chemnitz
Production of a short film on Open Access with reference to the above event. The film will be shown on display screens at central locations at the TU Chemnitz.
Memo about the planned events on Open Access on the login screens of the public computer workstations and in databases
Presentation of the Open Access university press
Scheduled launch of the TU Chemnitz' first Open Access journal
Display of information material on Open Access in the public areas of the TU Chemnitz

Presentation slides

Dresden

University of Dresden

Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB)

Contact person: Roland Pohl

A series of talks on a variety of topics is planned for 22 October 2009:

Qucosa: Saxony's repository
Talk on Open Access in Germany and abroad
SLUB/Fotothek + Wikimedia: What form does the cooperation take? What does Open Access mean in relation to images?
Open Access in teaching
Creative Commons. Open Access - similar approaches and effects. Copyright awareness.
A revolution in the utilisation of knowledge? A social analysis of Open Access especially from the perspective of the humanities
CARPET: an information platform for e-publishing tools and services
Open Access publishing in the field of economics
EOD – E-Books on Demand
Open Access: legal issues and policy

The detailed programme can be found here (PDF, 66 KB).

Presentation slides

Schleswig-Holstein

Borstel

Borstel Research Center - Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences

Library of the Borstel Research Centre - Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences

Contact person: Kai Geschuhn

A talk on the following topic will take place at 11.00 hrs on 19 October 2009:

The principle of "openness" in medical research: Open Access, Open Data, Medicine 2.0
Speaker: Anita Eppelin Dipl-Biol., MA, German National Library of Medicine, Cologne

Kiel

University of Kiel

Kiel University Library

Contact person: Rainer Horrelt

Two presentations will be held on the subject of Open Access in the natural sciences and in economics:

Open Access in the natural sciences – The Helmholtz Association example
Open Access in economics – The German National Library of Economics (ZBW) example

More information is available here.

German National Library of Economics - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW)

ZBW - German National Library of Economics

Contact person: Olaf Siegert

The ZBW will be supporting the activities at the Universities of Dresden, Hannover and Kiel by giving talks (Dresden and Kiel) and participating in a podium discussion (Hannover).