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Our Projects
Current Projects
- BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
- BieJournals - Open Access Journals at Bielefeld University
Bielefeld University Library operates a technical platform for the publication and presentation of open access journals. This platform is based on the open source journal management and publishing software OJS (Open Journal Systems). BieJournals is part of Bielefeld University's concept for the promotion of Open Access / Open Science.
Duration: 2009 -
Project partners: Various editors of Open Access journals at Bielefeld University- Colibri - Corpus Libri et Liberi – Digitisation of 19th Century Children’s and Youth Literature
The project Digitisation of 19th Century Children’s and Youth Literature aims to build a digital collection of German-language historical children’s and youth literature from the publication period 1801 to 1914. It will include about 15,000 bibliographic units. In this way, the project can close a significant temporal gap by linking up with the catalogue of 18th century imprints from German-speaking territories (VD18) in the context of the digitisation strategy of the DFG for 18th century imprints. On the other hand, it closes a gap to the children’s and youth books digitised in the project Europeana Collections 1914-1918.
Duration: 06/2021 - 05/2024
Project partners: Berlin State Library, University Library of Technical University of Braunschweig, Foundation International Youth Library Munich
Funding from: German Research Foundation- Landesinitiative openaccess.nrw
Within the framework of the project funded by DH.NRW, a state initiative openaccess.nrw is being established.
Supported by a project consortium of universities, universities of applied sciences, art and music colleges and the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum (hbz), openaccess.nrw will bundle processes and information, accompany strategic developments and serve as a hub for state-wide discourse and positioning on the topic of Open Access in NRW.
The state initiative is intended to enable DH.NRW universities to,
- offer innovative, demand-oriented and efficient Open Access services,
- to enter into a state-wide dialogue on the OA transformation, critically reflect on developments, and
- to position itself on the topic with a nationwide voice.
In the project, Bielefeld University Library is leading a work package for monitoring publication volumes and publication costs as a central task of evidence-based planning and implementation of the Open Access strategy in NRW.
Duration: 10/2021 - 12/2025
Funding from: DH.NRW
Project coordination: University Library of Duisburg-Essen- Niklas Luhmann – A Passion for Theory. Publishing his Literary Estate and Making it Accessible for Research
The objective of the project is to preserve Niklas Luhmann's literary estate and make it accessible for research as well as to study the genesis of his work and publish a critical edition of unpublished writings. To achieve this, the first step is archiving those parts of the estate worthy of preservation (manuscripts, card index, correspondence, library etc.). In a second step, those materials that are to be made accessible for research are digitized and prepared for further use. The University Library is responsible for presenting and cataloguing of items digitized by the Faculty of Sociology and also for secure long term preservation.
Duration: 2015 - 2030
Funding from: North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts
Project partners: Prof. Dr. André Kieserling (Faculty of Sociology), Archive of Bielefeld University, Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH)- open-access.network - Competence and networking platform in the field of Open Access 2
The project "open-access.network - Competence and networking platform in the field of Open Access 2" builds on the established and recognised platform open-access.network.
Using open and dialogue-oriented formats, the project aims to promote acceptance and implementation of the Open Access transformation in order to sustainably establish Open Access as the standard of scholarly publishing within the framework of Open Science in Germany.
The most important target group of the second funding phase are scientists and scholars, with the involvement of other stakeholders such as learned societies and private sponsors.
The project addresses current developments such as community-owned publication infrastructures and alternative funding models, publication based funding and "Diamond Open Access", subject-specific features of the Open Access transformation as well as criteria for research evaluation. The bundling of activities via the established open-access.network platform ensures that all offerings can be made available quickly, transparently and with a wide reach.
The main goals of the project are to support the Open Access transformation through comprehensive information, training and networking measures, the increased addressing of researchers, the development of re-usable materials and sustainably operated services.
Bielefeld University Library will focus on two main areas in the project:
a) the organisation of workshops and the production of handouts to support academic institutions to sustainably fund the Open Access transformation.
b) the maintenance and further development of the recommender service oa.finder, i.e. to include the segment of Open Access book publishers and conference papers.
Duration: 01/2023 - 12/2025
Project partners: KIM der Universität Konstanz, Helmholtz Open Science Koordinationsbüro am Deutschen GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, SUB Göttingen, Open-Access-Büro Berlin, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), Bielefeld University Library
Funding from: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Open Access Publication Fund
Bielefeld University's Publication Fund supports the publication of articles in Open Access journals. With the help of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and its Open Access Publishing funding programme, article processing charges (APCs) levied by Open Access journals can (on application, where necessary) be paid on behalf of university members. The Publication Fund is administered by the University Library.
Duration: 2009 -
Funding from: Rektorat of Bielefeld University, German Research Foundation- openCost: automated, standardised delivery and open provision of publication costs and publishing agreements
In cooperation with the University Library of Regensburg and DESY Hamburg, existing information infrastructures such as the Electronic Journals Library and OpenAPC will be further developed and the role of repositories in the indexing of Open Access publication costs will be strengthened. The project focuses on the development of a standardised metadata format for the recording and transfer of data on publication costs publications, the realisation of an open interface for harvesting and querying this data.
The DFG project openCost aims to provide a comprehensive record of all costs for publications by scientific institutions. To this end, three focal points are being worked on:
- Development of a standardised metadata format for the collection and transmission of data on the costs of publications.
- Realisation of an open interface for harvesting and querying these data
- Extension of the Electronic Journals Library (EZB) to include information on Open Access publication costs.
The project builds on and further develops existing information infrastructures such as the Electronic Journals Library and OpenAPC. The project organises thematic workshops and shares progress and results with scientific institutions and libraries in a public way.
Duration: 12/2021 - 11/2024
Project partners: Regensburg University Library , Bielefeld University Library, DESY Central Library
Funding from: German Research Foundation- PALOMERA - Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area
Academic books, book chapters and monographs play an important role in scholarly production and communication, especially in the social sciences and humanities.
PALOMERA (Policy Alignment of Open Access Monographs in the European Research Area) investigates the phenomenon that books, book chapters and monographs in Open Access are often not the focus of Open Access policies of research funders and institutions compared to Open Access journal articles.
To this end, the project will conduct studies, surveys and interviews and develop concrete use cases. The knowledge gained will be processed in PALOMERA in a structured way and shared publicly. Based on the knowledge thus gained, PALOMERA will develop recommendations to support and coordinate an aligned policy for Open Access books. This is aimed at all relevant stakeholders, such as research funders, research institutions, publishers, infrastructure providers, libraries, national policy makers and, last but not least, researchers. This is linked to the overarching goal of accelerating the transformation to Open Access for books.
Bielefeld University Library is involved in building and analysing the knowledge base by integrating cost data from OpenAPC and book-related bibliographic metadata and statistics from BASE.
GrantID: HORIZON Europe - 101094270
Duration: 01/2023 - 12/2024
Project coordination: OPERAS
Funding from: European Commission - HORIZON Reforming and enhancing the European R&I System
- PID Network Germany
The project "PID Network Germany" aims to establish a network of already existing and currently forming actors around the persistent identification (PID) of persons, organisations, publications, resources and infrastructures in the field of digital communication in science, research and culture.
The aim is to promote and consolidate the application, implementation, standardisation and international connectivity of PID systems at local, national and international level.
In addition to surveying needs and optimisation potential for existing PID systems, the project's findings are to result in recommendations within the framework of a national PID roadmap for Germany.
Duration: 36 months
Project partners: Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, German National Library, DataCite, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Bielefeld University Library
Funding from: German Research Foundation
Grant-ID: 506475377
- PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University
PUB is the institutional repository of Bielefeld University and preserves the scholarly output of its members. Operated by Bielefeld University Library, PUB provides open access to Bielefeld's scholarly publications and research data in accordance with Bielefeld University's Open Access and research data resolutions. PUB also collects digital theses. PUB has emerged from the project PubLister, funded by the DFG and is jointly developed by the university libraries in Ghent and Lund.
Duration: 11/2010 -
Project partners: Ghent University Library, Lund University Library
Funding from: German Research Foundation (PubLister), Rektorat of Bielefeld University- CRC1288 Subproject INF Data Infrastructure and Digital Humanities
The INF subproject is responsible for supervising all data- and information-related activities by providing a collaborative digital work and research environment for the whole SFB. By bringing together expertise in the fields of information infrastructure, research data management, and digital humanities, it contributes to establishing new research methods in the field of the humanities that will support research on practices of comparing. At the same time, INF is creating a sustainable basis for ensuring the long-term availability of the research data collected and used in the SFB. This will guarantee the transparency and traceability of research findings, theses, and publications.
Completed Projects
- EOSC-Future
EOSC Future is a project funded by the European Commission aiming to integrate, consolidate and connect e-infrastructures, research communities and open science initiatives in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
The project will unlock the potential of European research which is linked to a vision of open science for Society. It is characterised by the following aspects:
(1) All major stakeholders in the EOSC ecosystem are brought together under one project umbrella, on the one hand to consolidate the most important EOSC project results and on the other hand to connect different subject disciplines and their communities.
(2) In collaboration with subject-specific communities, scientific use cases will be developed that demonstrate the benefits and added value of EOSC for conducting excellent and interdisciplinary research.
(3) The EOSC community shall be actively involved in a variety of communication measures to increase awareness of EOSC and its further development.
(4) The EOSC portal, which provides information on the various offers of the EOSC, shall be further developed through the active participation of the EOSC community.
Bielefeld University Library is involved in the following work packages via OpenAIRE AMKE:
- WP4: Design and development of EOSC back office functions.
- WP6: Integration of Community services and research results
GrantID: H2020-101017536
Duration: 04/2021 - 09/2023
Project coordination: Athena Research & Innovation Information Technologies (Athena RC) (Athen, Griechenland)
Funding from: European Commission - Horizon2020-INFRAEOSC-03-2020- Open-Access.Network
open-access.network - Competence and networking platform in the field of Open Access
The open-access.network project creates a new information and networking service that will activate existing initiatives and link them on a supra-regional basis, as well as sustainably improve the exchange within the scientific community on Open Access. Information on the topic of Open Access will be made available centrally and reliably across all disciplines. Newly created, freely accessible materials, further education and training offers will further qualify actors and multipliers in science and libraries and impart competencies on practical, organisational and legal issues. As part of the overall project, Bielefeld University Library is responsible for two areas of work:
- It supports the editorially maintained information offerings by creating, integrating and expanding structured data collections that support the findability of OA publication opportunities from various points of view.
- It supports the strengthening of didactic competences and the knowledge exchange of OA multipliers by conducting train-the-trainer bootcamps.Duration: 12/2019 - 11/2022
Project partners: KIM der Universität Konstanz, Helmholtz Open Science Koordinationsbüro am Deutschen GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, SUB Göttingen, Open-Access-Büro Berlin, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)
Funding from: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)- OpenAIRE-Nexus Scholarly Communication Services for EOSC users
OpenAIRE-Nexus brings in Europe, EOSC and the world a set of services to implement and accelerate Open Science. To embed in researchers workflows, making it easier for them to accept and uptake Open Science practices of openness and FAIRness. To give the tools to libraries, research communities to make their content more visible and discoverable. To assist policy makers to better understand the environment and ramifications of Open Science into new incentives, scientific reward criteria, impact indicators, so as to increase research and innovation potential. To foster innovation, by providing SMEs with open data about scientific production. To this aim, OpenAIRE-Nexus onboards to the EOSC fourteen services, provided by public institutions, e-infrastructures, and companies, structured in three portfolios: PUBLISH (catch all repository; Open Access overlay journal platform; data anonymization; Data Management Plans), MONITOR (Open Science and research impact monitoring; open citation indexes for article-article, article-dataset links; European monitoring of Article Processing Charges, publication usage statistics), and DISCOVER (open catalogue and APIs to the OpenAIRE Research Graph of interlinked publications, data, software, projects; discovery portals for communities; validation and brokering services for data sources to improve their metadata). The services are widely used in Europe and beyond and integrated in OpenAIRE-Nexus to assemble a uniform Open Science Scholarly Communication package for the EOSC. The project aims at forming synergies with other INFRAEOSC-07 awarded projects, the INFRAEOSC-03 project, research infrastructures, e-infrastructures, and scholarly communication services define a common Open Science interoperability framework for the EOSC, to facilitate sharing, monitoring, and discovery of EOSC resources across disciplines.
GrantID: H2020-101017452
Duration: 01/2021 - 06/2023
Project coordination: OPENAIRE AMKE (Athens, Greece)
Funding from: European Commission - Horizon2020-INFRAEOSC-07-2020- Informium
The Rektorat of Bielefeld University supports the building up of campus-wide services for research data management under the umbrella brand Informium. The Coordination Centre for Research Data at the University Library offers comprehensive advisory services for developing data management plans and continuing documentation of research data. Furthermore, it supports faculties and academia to interlink their existing data services with global data archives. At the same time, the campus-wide service PUB (Publications at Bielefeld University) offers services for the publication of research data.
Duration: 2009 -
Funding from: Rektorat of Bielefeld University- National Open Access Contact Point OA2020-DE
Within the priority initiative "Digital Information" the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany established a National Contact Point Open Access. The objective of this project is to support a large-scale transition of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing, such as the Max Planck Digital Library initiative OA2020 pursue it on a global level. OA2020-DE is part of an establishing international network of national contact points and collaborates closely with German universities, research institutions and publishers.
Duration: 08/2017 - 07/2021
Project partners: Forschungszentrum Jülich Central Library
Funding from: Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany- ORCID-DE 2 - Consolidation of the ORCID Information Infrastructure in Germany
The second phase of the ORCID-DE project aims at the consolidation of the ORCID consortium established in Germany. In this context and bearing in mind a sustainable operation, the dialogue platform will be expanded by FAQs that are tailored to different target groups and a helpdesk system will be set up. The contribution of the university library within the project will focus on a joint requirement analysis regarding the use of organisational identifiers for academic institutions in Germany and their meaningful linkage with ORCID; using ORCID in other context such as Open Access transformation; the development of an ORCID monitor and the implementation of measures for metadata optimisation and enrichment in the ORCID-BASE repository ecosystem.
Duration: 01/2020 - 06/2022
Project partners: Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, German National Library, DataCite, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
Funding from: German Research Foundation- Cost transparency as a contribution to the Open Access Transformation - KOA
Building on the results of the OpenAPC initiative, the project aims to create standardized, cross-institutional routines for aggregating, analyzing, presenting, and monitoring the costs of open access publication fees in a transparent manner.
The overall objective of creating market and cost transparency for open access publication fees is achieved through the following sub-goals:a. Extend the collection of cost data by including additional open access publication funds,
b. Development of new methods for the qualified assessment of existing expenses and costs of academic institutions in Germany that do not yet have institutional support structures for the fee-based open access publishing,
c. Acquisition of costs for cooperative, non-fee based Open Access publishing models as well as for offsetting models and the Post Grant Fund of the BMBF,
d. Integration of KOA into a National Open Access Monitor.Duration: 10/2018 - 09/2020
Funding from: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)- Children's and Young Adult Literature in Multimedia 1900–1945
The project records movies and broadcasts featuring literary texts for children and young adults. In addition, appropriate print versions (novels, short stories, fairytales, picture books, comics etc.), passed on stage performances and further treatments and uses are documented. The University Library creates a data collection system based on Drupal.
Duration: 2015 - 2019
Funding from: German Research Foundation
Project partners: Prof. Dr. Petra Josting (Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft)- OpenAIRE-Advance - Advancing Open Scholarship
OpenAIRE-Advance continues the mission of OpenAIRE to support the Open Access/Open Data mandates in Europe. By sustaining the current successful infrastructure, comprised of a human network and robust technical services, it consolidates its achievements while working to shift the momentum among its communities to Open Science, aiming to be a trusted e-Infrastructure within the realms of the European Open Science Cloud.
In cooperation with its partners Bielefeld University Library coordinates a work-package "Towards a Scholarly Commons". It examines key elements of scholarly communication, i.e., co-operative OA publishing and next generation repositories, to develop essential building blocks of the scholarly commons.GrantID: H2020-777541
Duration: 01/2018 - 12/2020
Project coordination: University of Athens (UoA, Greece)
Funding from: European Commission - Horizon2020-EINFRA-2017- CONQUAIRE - Continuous quality control for research data to ensure reproducibility
CONQUAIRE will focus on reproducibility and quality control during the research process in an institutional setting.
The Semantic Computing Group together with nine research groups and Bielefeld University Library will develop services and tools to support researchers when creating/collecting data, versioning data (including code such as scripts used for analysis), and making their data reusable. This project aims to facilitate these tasks across the entire data lifecycle while ensuring a consistent high data and metadata quality.Duration: 01/2016 - 12/2018
Funding from: German Research Foundation
Project partners: Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano (CITEC – Cognitive Interaction Technology) at Bielefeld University- ORCID.DE - Promoting Open Researcher and Contributor ID in Germany
The aim of the project is to support sustainably the implementation of ORCID at universities and other research institutions through a comprehensive approach. The project was initiated by the Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI). Within the project, Bielefeld University Library is going to add a claiming feature to BASE that allows owners of a ORCID number to add online publications from repositories to their ORCID profile.
Duration: 05/2016 - 04/2019
Project partners: Helmholtz Open Science Koordinationsbüro am Deutschen GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Funding from: German Research Foundation- INTACT - Transparent Infrastructure for Article Charges
The project comprises three activity areas: OA Analytics will examine how open access publishing is distributed over German research institutions. With the initiative OpenAPC within the INTACT project, a platform is established that releases datasets on fees paid for open access journal articles by universities and research institutions. On a third level, the initiative ESAC (Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges) looks at the business processes of the evolving APC market and proposes efficient workflows while involving all parties such as funders, libraries, and publishers. INTACT collaborates closely with German universities, research institutions and publishers and is supported by DINI AG Elektronisches Publizieren.
Duration: 10/2015 - 09/2018
Project partners: Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Science (I²SoS) at Bielefeld University
Funding from: German Research Foundation- OpenAIRE 2020 - Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe 2020
OpenAIRE2020 is the third project phase of OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe). With 50 partners from all EU countries, OpenAIRE is a large-scale initiative to establish Open Science in Europe. Bielefeld University Library is a technical partner of OpenAIRE and works in particular in the fields of metadata harvesting and Open Access usage statistics.
GrantID: H2020-643410
Duration: 01/2015 - 06/2018 (42 months)
Project partners: University of Athens, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Funding from: European Commission- Europeana ECloud
- SFB882 project INF (Information and Data Infrastructure for the SFB)
This project takes on key service functions in the domain of data and information infrastructure by setting up and administering a virtual research environment for SFB882. It devises and implements standards of documentation for the data generated, applies anonymisation concepts for data archiving and provides advice on methodology.
- OpenAIREplus (2nd Generation Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe)
- OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe)
- Retrospective Digitization of Scientific Review Organs and Literary Magazines from the 18th and 19th Century in the German-speaking Area
The aim of this project is a digital reconstruction of the complete corpora of the major review organs and literary magazines originating from the age of the German Enlightenment and the following epochs. The first and foremost criterion for the selection of the periodicals is their recording in the "Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750–1815", elaborated by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Duration: 2000 - 2016
Project partners: Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Funding from: German Research Foundation- Reframing Scholarly Publishing
Bielefeld University Library is active in the design of methods and solutions for alternative scholarly publishing on the basis of new business models. This site provides information on the debate about "Reframing Scholarly Publishing" which offers in addition to the presentation of ongoing projects first steps into the theme open access.
- ECO4R - Exposing Complex Objects for Repositories
- Automatic Enrichment of OAI Metadata by Means of Computational Linguistics Methodology and Development of Services for Content-Based Integration of Repositories
- PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research)
- PubLister (Personal Publication Lists as Campus-wide Services)
Publication lists are part of scientific communication. Therefore the DFG project tests and develops sustainable services for the design and reuse of personal publication lists.Publication lists are part of scientific communication. Therefore the DFG project tests and develops sustainable services for the design and reuse of personal publication lists.
- DRIVER II (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research)
- Information Platform open-access.net
- OPUS 4 (Development of the Open Access Repository Software OPUS as a Component of National and International Networks)
- DRIVER I (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research)
- ProSeBiCA (Prospective control of academic libraries services using conjoint analysis)
- Notebook University Bielefeld
- BieSOn (Bielefeld Server for Online Publications)
- Digital Libraries and Their Impact for the Modernization of the Education System
- Intelligent Search Assistent
- E-Publisher Project
- The Digital Library North Rhine-Westphalia