Freie Universität Berlin has been active in supporting the idea of open access for many years.

What ist Open Access?

Open Access stands for free access to scholarly publications. Open access publications are freely available worldwide via the Internet without any legal, technical or financial barriers.

Why Open Access?

Open Access is a benefit to all of us. Free and immediate access to research results benefits both the individual scientists and the scientific community as a whole. It accelerates academic exchange of information and experience and transfer of research results into practice.

How does Open Access work?

To meet the open access criteria of an unrestricted and free of charge access to research results, researchers can choose between the different pathways to open access.

Detailed information, news and current events can be found at the Open Access webseite of Freie Universität.

Team & Contact

University Libary

Open-Access-Team of Freie Universität Berlin
E-Mail: open-access@fu-berlin.de

Document Server Editorial Team
Birgit Schlegel

E-Mail: edocs@ub.fu-berlin.de

Open Access and Academic Publishing
Christina Riesenweber

E-Mail: christina.riesenweber@fu-berlin.de

New: Berlin Universities Publishing (BerlinUP) 

Berlin Universities Publishing ist ein Open-Access-Verlag in einer nichtkommerziellen, wissenschaftseigenen Infrastruktur und mit einer allgemeinen, verlagsunabhängigen Publikationsberatung.

BerlinUP wird gefördert von der Berlin University Alliance und gemeinschaftlich getragen von den Bibliotheken der Freien Universität Berlin, der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, der Technischen Universität Berlin und der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

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