Open Science
Publishing in Open Access journals
Charité and BIH support open access to scientific knowledge and have signed the Berlin Declaration 2018. The Open Access Transformation measures are coordinated by the Open Access Team of the Medical Library. The Berlin Senate adopted an OA strategy for Berlin in 2015, and the goal of 60% freely accessible publications in 2020 stated there has been achieved for Charité (see dashboards of the Medical Library and the QUEST Center).
The Charité Medical Library oversees the topic of Open Access and advises you on all issues related to Open Access publishing via openaccess@charite.de.
Berlin Universities Publishing
Since 2022, the institutions of the Berlin University Alliance jointly operate the Open Access publisher Berlin Universities Publishing (BUP). This publishing house provides a platform that researcher communities can use to publish their own open access journals. The publishing model, the so-called “diamond open access”, does not rely on fees from authors or readers, but requires editors to take on additional tasks beyond peer review organization, like copy-editing and typesetting. Besides journals, BUP also publishes Open Access books. While publication itself is, as for journal articles, free of charge, supplementary services, such as copy-editing, typesetting, and layout, can be purchased for a fee.
Predatory Open Access
So-called predatory journals are journals with no or inadequate quality assurance procedures. Like many OA journals, they are based on the APC funding model, i.e. the author pays publication fees for publication in these journals. The term predatory publishing has become established for this practice.