Activities
The University of Münster is committed to open access publishing, among other things by means of cooperations, memberships and events.
Events
We invite you to join our events to explore more about publishing and open access to knowledge. Feel free to stop by to stay up to date on upcoming events and workshops.
The ULB Münster has participated every year since 2009 at the International Open Access Week with an information stand in the foyer of the Central Library at Krummer Timpen. In 2024, the motto of the week is "Community over Commercialization".
During the Open Access Weeks we will inform you about these and other topics:
- ORCID – Open Researcher and Contributor ID
- How do I "become" open access?
- Open access & Copyright
- Financial Help for open access: The University of Münster's publication fund
- Not just disclosing the result: open access research data
- How to find open access publications?
- Do you already know ... DOAJ and DOAB?
- Predatory Publishing & Conferencing - Predatory Activities in Science
- "Stronger Together" and "One for All": Community Funding and Institutional Memberships for open access
- Special books from the University of Münster: New publications of the University's publication series
Cooperations
"Stronger together": Community Funding
The ULB Münster was and is involved in these crowdfunding and Subscribe2Open projects for books and journals:
- Berghahn
- Open Anthro since 2022
- De Gruyter
- Open Access Transformation Packages
- German Literary Studies 2022–2024
- German Linguistics 2022–2024
- History 2022–2024
- Jewish Studies 2020
- Millennium Studies 2023–2025
- Subscribe2Open-Zeitschriften im Zeitschriftenpaket HSS & Economics
- Open Access Transformation Packages
- Duncker & Humblot
- Open Law 2024
- European Mathematical Society
- Knowledge Unlatched
- 2015/2016 general program 2
- 2016/2017 general program 3 Frontlist and Backlist
- 2018 HSS Books & STEM Books Frontlist and Backlist
- KU Select 2020
- English Language and Literature
- Modern Languages and Linguistics
- KU Select 2022
- KU Select 2023
- Communication, Cultural and Media Studies (Frontlist)
- English Language and Literature
- Modern Languages & Linguistics
- Politics & International Studies (Frontlist)
- Routledge Gender Studies 2023–2025
- Sociology (Frontlist)
- CEU Press: "Opening the Future": History Package
- Language Science Press 2018–2020 & 2021–2023 & 2024–2026
- Open Commons of Phenomenology 2018–2020
- Routledge Gender Studies 2019–2021
- MIT Press
- Direct to Open (D2O) 2024
- Mohr Siebeck
- "Internet and Society" 2024–2026
in cooperation with the Specialised Information Service for International and Interdisciplinary Legal Research
- "Internet and Society" 2024–2026
- Open Library of Humanities (since 2017)
- SCOAP3 (seit 2014)
- Specialised Information Service Education / University Library Erlangen-Nürnberg
- transcript
- wbv
- ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
ULB Münster's Specialised Information Service Benelux / Low Countries Studies is also active in the field of open access publications.
Cost Transparency: OpenAPC
The OpenAPC initiative makes the costs involved in paying open access publication charges – APCs for articles and BPCs for books – transparent via a platform – Open Data for Open Access.
The ULB Münster participates in Open APC with the figures of the University of Münster's publication fund for articles and for books.- Berghahn
Memberships
© ag universitätsverlage The Service Point for Publications is a member of Arbeitsgemeinschaft Universitätsverlage. The working group is an association of university presses, publishing services and platforms, which are connected to an academic institution and offer professional publishing services, in German speaking countries. The membership criteria include especially quality assurance according to scientific standards and the support of open access.