Paderborn University strengthens access to scientific knowledge

Open access policy adopted. Science is built on collaboration. The exchange and dissemination of new insights are key building blocks for scientific progress. The digital transformation, which is also revolutionising scientific work, has produced entirely new opportunities for sharing scientific data, methods and findings. As well as enabling quick, global distribution, it also makes multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary access increasingly easy. This also relates to the publication of research findings in the form of essays or monographs, which are traditionally published by specialist publishers such as Springer Nature or Cambridge University Press. Traditional journal subscriptions have been increasingly called into question in recent years, as they mean that high costs limit access to the findings produced (and generally also peer reviewed) by scientists.