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Open Access Days 2025: Goal Achieved – or how can it (Ever) be Accomplished?
What does Open Access promise and what does it cost? How can the crucial importance of open...

Open Access Conference: Reputation Without a Paywall?
Whether Open Access is a cure or homeopathy and putting the measurement of science on the test bench...

Open Access Days 2024: DEAL, Diamond and Beyond
How the Open Access transformation can be depicted as a wave movement, what a new transformation...

Open Access During the Pandemic: Prelude to a Permanent Change in Publishing Behaviour?
Is the observable increase in preprints during the COVID-19 pandemic a temporary phenomenon or the...

Innovations in Libraries: Impressions of a Study Trip to the Netherlands
ZBW staff member Alena Behrens recently had the opportunity to get to know nine very different libraries...

Open Science in Economics: Selected Findings From the ZBW Awareness Analysis 2022
There is generally great enthusiasm for Open Science and Open Practices in library circles. But what is...

Open Letter: Open Science Should Provide Support, not Impose Sanctions
Following ZBW's Open Science Retreat on the impact of global crises on the Open Science movement in June...

INCONECSS 2022 Conference: Artificial Intelligence, Open Access and Data Dominate the Discussions
INCONECSS is the international conference for librarians and information specialists in the economic...

Briefly Noted: ZBW MediaTalk in Test Mode on Mastodon
Even though the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk is now a case for lawyers, many users from Germany have...