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Report of the working group "Open-Access-Publikationsplattformen"
(2017)
Abstract
The Berlin Open Access Strategy claims: "It is a long-term goal to establish a Berlin-wide open access infrastructure for monographs, anthologies and periodicals – as a cooperation of infrastructure service providers located at research institutions as well as Berlin-based publishers and publishing service providers." A Berlin-wide open access publishing infrastructure should be based on the existing infrastructural and scholarly expertise of several, cooperating institutions in Berlin and result in high-quality publications at fair costs.
A working group "Open Access Publishing Platforms" consisting of representatives of several Berlin research institutions was set up and commissioned to carry out the necessary preliminary work. 
The first part reports on existing publication infrastructures run by Berlin research institutions. The second part describes three possible model for re-structuring and setting up a Berlin-wide open access publishing infrastructure for monographs, anthologies and journals.
