Open Access Network of certified repositories in Germany

OA-Netzwerk as central node is building a network of German Open Access Repositories and cooperates closely with OA-Statistik (developing an added-value service for repository usage statistics), DOARC (open access reference citation service) and OA-Fachrepositorien (enhancing the collaboration of institutional and subject-based repositories) as well as with the collaborative platform CARPET, aiming at developers and users of electronic publishing software technologies.

Principal investigators

Schirmbacher, Peter Prof. Dr. (Details) (Director / Secretary)

Financer

DFG: Sachbeihilfe

Duration of project

Start date: 10/2009
End date: 09/2012

Website

http://www.dini.de/projekte/oa-netzwerk/

Research Areas

Open Access Network, Interoperability, Open Archives Initative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), Service Oriented Architecture, Webservices, DINI Certificate for Document and Pubilcation Services, Repository Network, Metadata Harvesting, RDF