Personal Advice

If you are looking for support for your questions about Open Access, you could take a look here: Helpdesk of the project open-access.network

Most universities and research institutions now have their own specialists for the topic of Open Access, known as Open Access officers. You can get support from them in questions relating to Open Access. Further information: Open Access officer DACH (German) for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

If you have any questions or suggestions, you are also welcome to get in touch with us.

Courses and Materials

Open Access officers often offer support for their institutions on the topic, and there are also comprehensive information offers beyond this.

Discipline-specific training:

• MOOC "Transparent and Open Social Science Research" from the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)
• The Resource Library of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) contains a variety of resources for learning, teaching and practicing research transparency and reproducibility.
• Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS) Slide Deck Library
• E-Book "Publishing and Measuring Success in Economics"

Interdisciplinary training:

• Open Access primers and further information via open-access.network
• Course "Open Science: Sharing your research with the world," Module 3 Publishing in Open Access
• Open Science MOOC "Open Access to Research Papers"
• Training by the Open Science Center of the LMU Munich