• Energy Research

DSpace ist eine Open-Source-Software, auf der weltweit circa 45% der Open-Access-Repositorien basieren (Quelle: opendoar.org, 15.10.2019). Im Jahr 2018 gründeten 25 akademische Institutionen in Deutschland das DSpace-Konsortium Deutschland mit dem Ziel, die Entwicklung von DSpace zu stärken und sich Einfluss auf die Entwicklung von DSpace zu sichern, die für sie strategische Bedeutung hat. Die Hintergründe zu dieser Gründung, die Ziele des Konsortiums und seiner Mitglieder sowie die Bedeutung von Open-Source-Software für nachhaltige Forschungsdateninfrastrukturen werden in diesem Artikel beleuchtet. DSpace is an open source software on which about 45% of open access repositories worldwide are based (source: opendoar.org, 15.10.2019). In 2018, 25 academic institutions in Germany founded the DSpace Consortium Germany with the aim of strengthening the development of DSpace and securing influence on the development of DSpace, which is of strategic importance to them. The background to this foundation, the goals of the consortium and its members as well as the importance of open source software for sustainable research data infrastructures are highlighted in this article.

For 20 years, the German DINI Certificate for Open Access Publication Services has provided transparent criteria and guidelines for building and maintaining trustworthy publication services such as repositories and Diamond Open Access journals. The community-developed, non-commercial certificate paves the way for open scholarly communication and supports the prerequisites for the free availability of scholarly information as an essential element of future-oriented research-related services. Introduced in 2004 and now in its 7th revised version, the DINI Certificate has been used in approximately 120 - mostly successful - certification processes. Since the beginning the catalogue takes into account international standards (e.g. provided by COAR, OpenAIRE). With this poster, we are reaching out to the international repository community by illustrating the key features of the well-established Certificate and its catalogue of criteria. The latest version of the Certificate has been adapted to the Austrian legal system. We hope that other countries will follow, so that repositories in more countries can benefit from the DINI Certificate.