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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.

Memberships

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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.

Cooperations

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.

Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS)

The Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS) supports researchers at the University of Münster incurring out transparent and reliable research. It offers networking, strategy development, counseling, information material and further education across various disciplines of science.

"Stronger together": Community Funding

The ULB Münster was and is involved in these crowdfunding and Subscribe2Open projects for books and journals: