Scholar-led Plus: Tailored support for scholar-led publishing
The aim of the project is to improve the publication situation of scholar-led, open-access gold journals and blogs through a community network. These journals and blogs face particular challenges while established systems of funding and support often do not take effect here. As an integral part of the publishing ecosystem, the visibility and recognition of these journals and blogs needs to be improved.
The project understands scholar-led publishing as a complex management process for which existing expertise and technical solutions must be bundled and coordinated. The renewed commercialization of publishing necessitates a sustainable, innovative network that provides low-threshold, direct advice, exchange and networking opportunities.
The network, called KAMBIUM, will be developed in two project phases and in close collaboration with stakeholders of scholar-led publishing. Both project phases will be accompanied by qualitative research to provide recommendations for the further development of scholar-led publishing.
In the first and exploratory phase of the project (concept stage), the literature on business and support models will be reviewed and the needs of journals and funders will be assessed with surveys and workshops.
In the second project phase (implementation stage), workshops will be held to develop publication manuals on specific topics and to establish a network of experts.
KAMBIUM. Fair and free publishing for a diverse Open Access ecosystem
Kambium is currently being set up and will be a network of mutual support (peer-to-peer) in order to advise and represent the non-content side of scholar-led journals and blogs. With a wide set of relevant topics and different training formats, we aim at sustaining Open Access publication outlets and foster the Open Access transformation in general.
Results
All project results are published on an ongoing basis. A report on the project’s stakeholder workshop is linked below.
Results of the stakeholder workshop
Events in the project
Date | Event |
18.10.2022 | Writing Sprint “Technology and Infrastructures” |
20.10.2022 | Writing Sprint “Rights and Licenses” Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (digital event) |
25.10.2022 | Writing Sprint “Workflows” |
27.10.2022 | Writing Sprint “Communication and Distribution” Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (digital event) |
03.11.2022 | Writing Sprint “Business Models” Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (digital event) |
08.11.2022 | Writing Sprint “Governance and Legal Form” Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (digital event) |
01.06.2022 | Presentation of the results of the workshop “Securing Diamond Open Access Together” Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (digitale Veranstaltung) |
19.05.2022 | Workshop “Journals in transition towards Open Access”, TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Technology and Natural Sciences University Library (digital event) |
07.04.2022 11.00-17.00 | Workshop “Jointly securing Diamond Open Access: quality criteria, funding areas and opportunities for co-determination” Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (digital event) |
26.10.2021 | Panel Discussion “Led by Scientists and Paid for by the Community?” Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in cooperation with the Open Access Office Berlin, Berlin |
| Duration | April 2021 – March 2023 |
| Funding | German Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
Benedikt Fecher, Dr.Head of Research Programme and Associate Researcher: Knowledge & Society
Johanna KlixStudent assistant: Knowledge & Society
Marcel WrzesinskiOpen Access Officer and project lead "Scholar-led Plus"
Journal articles and conference proceedings
Wrzesinski, M. (2022). Community-governed and community-paid publishing. Resilient support for independent open access journals. Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022. Practicing Sovereignty. Interventions for open digital futures, Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2022.. Publication details
Ganz, K., & Wrzesinski, M. (2021). Open Education: Mehr als digital und ohne Paywall. FGZ - Freiburger Zeitung für Geschlechterstudien, 147-150. DOI: 10.3224/fzg.v27i1.14 Publication details
Working paper
Wrzesinski, M., Riechert, P., Dubois, F., & Katzenbach, C. (2021). Working with publication technology to make open access journals sustainable. HIIG Discussion Paper Series, 2021(02). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4558781 Publication details
Waidlein, N., Wrzesinski, M., Dubois, F., & Katzenbach, C. (2021). Working with budget and funding options to make open access journals sustainable. HIIG Discussion Paper Series, 2021(01). DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4558790 Publication details
Other publications
Asmussen, T., Boucher, M.-C., Dalkilic, E., Drubek-Meyer, N., Finger, J., Ganz, K., Heinig, J., Heuer, J., Kirchner, A., Klassen, O., Kunz, R., Mirbeth, J., Neufend, M., Rauchecker, M., Steiner, T., Wenninger, A. & Wrzesinski, M. (2022). THE SCHOLAR-LED.NETWORK-MANIFESTO. self published. Publication details
Scholar-led.network (2021). Das scholar-led.network-Manifest, Fokusgruppe scholar-led.network. (2021) Das scholar-led.network-Manifest. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4925784. Publication details
Asmussen, T., Boucher, M.-C., Dalkilic, E., Drubek-Meyer, N., Finger, J., Ganz, K., Heinig, J., Heuer, J., Kirchner, A., Klassen, O., Kunz, R., Mirbeth, J., Neufend, M., Rauchecker, M., Steiner, T., Wenninger, A. & Wrzesinski, M. (2021). Das scholar-led.network-Manifest. scholar-led.network. Publication details
Wrzesinski, M. (2021). Open Access, aber nicht umsonst: Robuste Finanzierung für wissenschaftliches Publizieren. Digital Society Blog. Publication details
Finger, J. & Wrzesinski, M. (2021). scholar-led.network: neue Unterstützung für wissenschaftliche Publikationsprojekte. ZBW Blog. Publication details
Waidlein, M. & Wrzesinski, M. (2020). InnOAccess-Workshops: Gebührenfreie Open-Access-Zeitschriften nachhaltig publizieren. ZBW Blog. Publication details
Lectures and presentations
KAMBIUM: A network to make community-driven publishing workOpen Access Scholarly Publishing Association Conference 2022. OASPA. Online, Online, Germany: 22.09.2022 Further information
Marcel Wrzesinski
Plattformisierung, Zentralisierung und Kollaboration. Chancen und Herausforderungen für Scholar-led Open AccessOpen-Access-Tage 2022. Universitätsbibliothek Bern. Gurten, Bern, Switzerland: 21.09.2022 Further information
Marcel Wrzesinski
KAMBIUM: Praktisches und strategisches Wissen für wissenschaftsgeführtes PublizierenRoad to Open Meta. HTWK Leipzig and Science Open. HTWK Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany: 12.09.2022 Further information
Marcel Wrzesinski
Community-governed and community-paid publishing. Resilient support for independent open access journalsWeizbaum Conference “Practicing Sovereignty. Interventions for open digital futures”. The Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany: 09.06.2022 Further information
Marcel Wrzesinski
Stand und Ergebnisse zu Scholar-led PlusWorkshop “Zeitschriften in der Open-Access-Transformation” (Session: Stand und Ergebnisse zu Scholar-led Plus). TIB - Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover. Digital, Berlin, Germany: 19.05.2022 Further information
Marcel Wrzesinski
“Hintergrund und Einordnung in Debatten: Die WissenschaftsperspektiveDiamond Open Access (Session: Open-Access-Zeitschriften und -Bücher ohne Publikationsgebühren finanzieren: Debatten, Modelle und Erfahrungen zu "Diamond OA"). Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. Digital, Digital, Germany: 11.05.2022 Further information
Marcel Wrzesinski
Panels
Aktuelle Entwicklungen von Open Access vor dem Hintergrund von DEAL und Plan SFachtagung zur Lage der sozial- und geisteswissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Berlin, Germany: 09.05.2022 Further information
Marcel Wrzesinski
Organisation of events
Diamond Open Access gemeinsam absichern: Qualitätskriterien, Förderbereiche und Möglichkeiten der Mitbestimmung07.04.2022. Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: Knowledge Unlatched (National) Further information
Marcel Wrzesinski
Scholar-led and community-paid?26.10.2021. Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: Open Access Büro Berlin (International) Further information
Marcel Wrzesinski