Open access means that research outputs, such as articles and data, are free of restrictions on access and free of restrictions on use. In the light of recent market developments in academic publishing, we argue in this essay that the discourse about open access must include a discussion about...

In this article we argue that the current endeavors to achieve open access in scientific literature require a discussion about innovation in scholarly publishing and research infrastructure. Drawing on path dependence theory and addressing different open access (OA) models and recent political...

Das vorliegende Working Paper reflektiert die Erarbeitung forschungsethischer Empfehlungen des Rates für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), die unter https://www.ratswd.de/dl/RatSWD_Output9_Forschungsethik.pdf zu finden sind. Der RatSWD beziehungsweise die von ihm eingesetzte Arbeitsgruppe...

In the New England Journal of Medicine, Longo and Drazen critically assessed the concept of data sharing. Their main concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for their own original research questions. The authors...