Open Access Policy for IGB

We are committed to Open Access

Open Access stands for unlimited and free access to quality-controlled academic information in the Internet. Through the removal of technical, financial and legal barriers, Open Access is instrumental in accelerating academic innovation processes and improving the visibility of research results. This supports those working in academia in their research and publication processes, and maximises the benefits of publicly funded research.

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To promote the principles of Open Science, IGB agreed on an Open Access Policy. We thereby adhere to the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities and the Open Access policy of the Leibniz Association 2016-2020. IGB’s Open Access activities are coordinated by the library.

Gold and Green

Last year, 295 peer-reviewed articles were published at IGB. Of these, 99 were immediately accessible in open access – in other words, a share of 34 per cent took the “golden road”. In 2018 we introduced a mandate for the self-archiving of all studies which have been carried out at IGB and were published in subscription journals. Since then we were able to make an additional number of 64 publications open access via the “green road” in the repository PUBLISSO.

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Open Access Policy of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)

Open Access Policy of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), agreed on by the Board of Management of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) on 6 December 2019.