List of exhibitors

Here you will find a list of the Open Access (OA) projects, products and services which will be presented at the Exhibition.

The exhibitors are divided into four categories:

It is still possible to reserve an exhibition booth. If you wish to do so, please consult  the Information for exhibitors and the Registration instructions.

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Open Access publishers

 

The Working Group of University Presses
The Working Group of University Presses is an alliance of 15 university presses from Germany, Austria and Northern Italy. Members publish mainly the scientific and scholarly output of their own institutions. Since 2005 the Group has been meeting once a year to exchange experiences and members make joint appearances at exhibitions and events. 
The Group's members encourage their authors to publish in accordance with the principles of OA. This generally involves a combination of OA electronic publishing and print-on-demand editions as required.   

 

Copernicus Publications
Copernicus Publications was established as a scientific publisher in 1994. In 2001, it  moved towards Open Access, and it now has 21 peer-reviewed journals and 11 access-reviewed discussion forums. Specialising in the earth, space and planetary sciences, the company has an innovative public peer-review process incorporating authors, reviewers and the scientific community. Its speedy production and single article publication focuses on online dissemination and is supplemented by print-on-demand services.

 

Lemmens Medien
Lemmens Medien is a media services enterprise which specialises in (higher) education management, research management and marketing. For some years now, in addition to its experience as a publisher, Lemmens Medien has been offering further training modules on the above-mentioned topics in cooperation with institutions of higher education. The company's goal is to help scholarly institutions and extra-university research organisations to play a formative role in Europe's developing education and research markets. One characteristic of this development is that basic-training, research, advanced-training and further-education phases are linked to research and development in industry. Lemmens Medien's Open Access project fits in with this. The project has now reached the development phase and interested scholars, scientists and science managers are invited to play an active role. In addition to the subject areas mentioned above, other academic disciplines will also be included.

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Open Access journals

 

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
The Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (BJOC) was launched in 2005. It is a peer-reviewed OA journal which publishes high quality articles in the field of organic chemistry. Editor-in-Chief of BJOC is Professor Jonathan Clayden, University of Manchester, U.K. All BJOC publications are openly accessible online. Authors incur no costs because the journal is published and funded by the Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences.

 

Economics – the Open Access, Open Assessment E-Journal
Economics – The Open Access, Open Assessment E-Journal is an electronic economics journal which operates as an interactive communication and publication platform. Its goal is to gain acceptance as an internationally-recognised peer-review journal. Therefore the focus is on the quality of contributions. Quality is assured by  subjecting contributions to a two-stage, open peer-review process. Not only are papers submitted for consideration reviewed in the traditional way by guest reviewers, they also undergo parallel review by registered journal users. The assessments are published on the journal website (open assessment).
Economics is run under the auspices of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in cooperation with the German National Library of Economics (ZBW), and receives funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). 

 

e-Journal of Practical Business Research

The e-Journal of Practical Business Research publishes select research papers which have been produced in collaboration with partners in industry. Real-life, concrete problems are the main focus of all the contributions featured. The themes and their treatment are very specific and it is usually up to the reader to decide whether the research findings can be generalised to other problems. However, it is precisely the specific nature of the published findings which make them so valuable. Instead of speculation and theorising, the authors offer objective empirical facts and concrete solutions.
An important feature of practical research is the research methods used. Only methodologically stringent research fulfils scientific criteria. Therefore, each published paper features a section describing the methods used and the role they played in solving the problem in question.


Forum: Qualitative Research (FQS)

FQS is a multilingual online journal of qualitative research. Its main aim is to promote discussion and cooperation between researchers from different countries and from a wide range of disciplines such as anthropology, education, ethnology, history, nursing and health sciences, information and management sciences, communication sciences, criminology, cultural sciences, medicine, linguistics, philosophy, politics, psychology, social work and sociology. Speed, flexibility and interactivity – the unique attributes of the Internet – are employed to develop new forms of discourse and standards of quality which differ from those of the traditional print media.  

 

German Medical Science
German Medical Science is an Open Access portal for online journals, congresses and research reports from all areas of medicine. It is aimed at all those who work on and with scientific publications. The portal offers open access to high-quality peer-reviewed medical literature and gives scientists from the medical world the opportunity to publish their research findings online.
German Medical Science is produced cooperatively by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF), the German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI) and the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED) which is the Federal Republic of Germany's specialised library of medicine, health, nutrition, the environment and agriculture. 

 

GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies

In December 2007 a pilot project for the conversion of established social science journals to Open Access was launched at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies. The project is being realised in cooperation with the Hamburg University Press and will be funded for two years by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The print versions of the converted journals will be retained. The journals will go online in stages from December 2009. This will improve communication with scholarly and scientific communities.

 

Living Reviews
Living Reviews are scientific open access journals, publishing review articles that provide insightful surveys on research progress in the fields they cover, and guiding readers to the most important literature in the field.
Its unique concept allows authors to regularly update their articles to incorporate the latest developments in the field. Living Reviews are available online only, enhanced by web features like movies, downloadable source code, or cross-linking to other resources.

 

Public Library of Science (PLoS)
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource.
Our goals are to:

 

Querelles.net

Querelles.net, an online review journal for women's studies and gender research, has been in existence since the summer of 2000. It features reviews of recent scientific publications, information on focus topics and an overview of current research status. It also provides annotated links, bibliographies and selected contributions on focus topics. Querelles.net is the first – and to-date the only – online journal devoted explicitly to this research area.

 

Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3)

SCOAP³ is a consortium of leading funding agencies, laboratories, scholarly societies and libraries specialising in high energy physics. It was initiated by Dr. Robert Aymar, the Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). With this pilot project, the participant institutions aim to convert the leading high energy physics journals to Open Access in cooperation with the publishers. The hope is to make Open Access to all high energy physics publications a reality in 2009.

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Open Access document servers

 

EconStor
The German National Library of Economics' (ZBW) subject-based repository EconStor specialises in economic publications from Germany and already contains over 7000 full-text documents. These are mainly working and discussion paper series. In future, the repository intends to broaden its focus beyond preprints and to target other types of electronic publication, especially dissertations, conference papers and postprints with a view to making them openly accessible.
The full-text documents together with the usual metadata (title, author, abstract, keywords, JEL) are available online via EconStor's own website and are indexed by Google. A subset of the documents is included in RePEc (after consultation with the publishers) and can be accessed via its services IDEAS and EconPapers.

[Note: The repository is currently switching from OPUS to DSpace. From September onwards it will be available on a new website under the name EconStor]

 

The edoc server at the Humboldt University Berlin

The document and publication server edoc provides members of the Humboldt University with the organisational and technical facilities for making their scholarly documents publicly accessible online. Operated jointly by the Computer and Media Service of the Humboldt University and the University Library, the repository makes highly relevant scholarly documents available online for teaching and research purposes while adhering to the highest standards of quality. The electronic documents are assigned permanent addresses and are findable via national and international library catalogues, search engines etc. edoc protects documents against falsification by using special measures such as digital signatures and time stamps. Moreover, the long term archiving of the digital objects is guaranteed.

 

pedocs – the document server of the German Education Portal at the German Institute for International Educational Research

The document server pedocs aims to bundle contributions in the field of pedagogics and educational research. Archive content includes articles which have already been published in academic journals, out-of-print works, and so-called grey literature. Pedocs also makes available audio-visual material for teaching purposes and school research.

Pedocs is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

 

PsyDok

PsyDok offers the psychological community the opportunity to make documents openly accessible. Document citability and long-term availability is guaranteed, as is the indexing of the documents by subject-based and institutional databanks and search engines such as Current Web Contents and Web Citation Index (Thomson), Google Scholar, PsychSpider and Psyndex (ZPID). An Open Access publishing house with a psychology section is being set up for primary publications.

 

Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR)
At present, the document server SSOAR provides free and unrestricted access to full-text qualitative research documents. After the pilot phase, which ends in 2008, SSOAR's content range will be extended. SSOAR represents the implementation of the Green Road, one of several Open-Access-Strategies. The Green Road is primarily geared towards making postprints of peer-reviewed journal articles openly accessible in repositories. However, SSOAR also contains articles from collective volumes, conference proceedings and refereed research and working reports.

SSOAR is being built cooperatively by the Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) in consultation with the Institute for Qualitative Research at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and by GESIS Social Science Information Centre (Bonn).

 

Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA)

Open Access guarantees authors the rights to their work and ensures increased visibility. The University of Zurich has made Open Access a strategic goal. It operates the Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA), a document server in which its researchers self-archive their publications and make them openly accessible.

Binding guidelines, services for scientific publishing and the fact that, from 2008, the University's academic yearbooks (Akademische Berichte) will be based on ZORA's content, all serve to promote the implementation of Open Access.

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Other Open Access projects and activities

 

Berlin 6 Conference
In October 2003 the Max Planck Society and European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO), an initiative to create an IT-based infrastructure for the social sciences and the humanities, initiated a conference in Berlin with the aim of finding ways to develop a new, web-based environment for the various areas of scholarship. At the end of the conference, the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities was issued in which the signatories expressed their clear commitment to Open Access. The Declaration was signed by leading national and international scientific bodies. In an ongoing process, the signatories have since sought joint solutions for problems such as quality assurance or the acceptance of Open Access publications. This joint effort was institutionalised in the form of the Berlin Follow-up Conferences. The Berlin 6 Conference will take place in Dusseldorf from 11-13 November 2008.

 

Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV)
The KOBV operates an Opus & Archiving Service to support the member libraries' Open Access activities. This service involves the operation of local publication servers and the archiving of electronic documents in individual library repositories. The division of labour within the KOBV network is such that headquarters takes care of all technical matters and the member libraries can concentrate on content and organisational aspects.

 
DINI e.V., German Initiative for Network Information
The DINI working group Electronic Publishing (EPUB) supports electronic publishing at German universities by drawing up recommendations for document and publication services and by organising training courses and seminars. In 2003, EPUB began certifying document and publication services using a standardised procedure. In addition to certification, DINI advises and supports providers of document and publication services concerning the provision of qualified services. It supports the spread of OAI-compatible services in Germany by organising information events and user workshops. In addition, via EPUB, DINI promotes the exchange of information with the international OAI community and the development of OAI-based services. DINI actively supports the development of a national network of certified Open Access repositories as a cornerstone of the European research infrastructure which is being created within the framework of the EU project DRIVER.


Digital Peer Publishing North Rhine-Westphalia (DiPP NRW)

DiPP NRW supports new forms of scientific communication by giving scientists and scholars, in cooperation with libraries, the technical, legal and organisational support they need to digitally disseminate their research to their peers. A web-based peer-review procedure ensures the scientific quality of the articles. DiPP's Digital Peer Publishing Licence (DPPL) sets out author-friendly conditions for the use of content.

 

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. As of September 2008 the Directory lists over 3600 full text, quality controlled, open access journals from more than 2000 publishers in 91 different countries.

 

EPrints Services
EPrints Services is a spin-off of the University of Southampton, UK.
Its mission is a sustainable development and support of the Open Source Software EPrints.
EPrints Services offers:

 

Helmholtz Open Access Project
The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres contributes to solving major challenges facing society, science and the economy with top scientific achievements in six research areas. With 26,500 employees in 15 research centres the Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific organisation. The Helmholtz Association was one of the initial signatories of the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities” in 2003. This commitment towards open access was formally adopted by its Assembly of Members (assembly of the directors of the Helmholtz centres). Since 2005 the Helmholtz Open Access Project supports scientists as well as the respective Helmholtz centres in the implementation of Open Access.The project informs about its activities.

 

MyCoRe

MyCoRe is an Open-Source software which was developed by a group of experts from university libraries and data centres throughout Germany. The MyCoRe project provides a software core for document and publication servers and archives. Building on this core, special local MyCoRe applications can be developed for archives, journal portals, library systems, document servers, dictionaries and publishers. The sample application  DocPortal shows the whole range of MyCoRe functionalities.

 

Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities

Working Group Electronic Publishing

This working group provides information on the various openly-accessible resources  produced by the member Academies. 
Resources particularly worthy of mention include frequently-used publications which were previously available only in book form, especially dictionaries such as the Deutsche Rechtswoerterbuch (The German Legal Dictionary), the Deutsche Woerterbuch der Brueder Grimm (The Brothers Grimm German Dictionary), the Goethe-Woerterbuch (The Goethe Dictionary) and the Woerterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache (The Dictionary of Contemporary German), as well as scholarly edition series such as the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

 

WALS Online
Through a joint effort of the Max Planck Digital Library and the Department of Linguistics of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, all the data and analytical texts from The World Atlas of Language Structures are now freely available online. The materials are published under a Creative Commons Licence, guaranteeing open access for users and inviting scientists to use them for their work. WALS Online is by far the most important web site on the world's linguistic diversity.
The site shows data on over 2,500 languages, for which more than 6,500 references have been used. Searching and browsing is possible by structural feature, by language name or language family, by reference and by author. The analytical texts contain links to all the references and all the languages. The maps can be shown at any zoom level, and the map symbols can be displayed in various shapes and colours. A wide range of export options is available.

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