Open Science, Open Access & Research Data Management

The University of Basel therefore offers its members infrastructures, consulting and training services as well as financial support in the areas of Open Access and research data management.

The University of Basel is a co-signatory of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. In this sense, it has been pursuing the goal of achieving open access to scientific publications with its OA policy and supporting services since 2013. At the end of 2019, the OA policy of the University of Basel was adapted to the current framework conditions and an OA publication fund was additionally established. Within the framework of a pilot project (2020-2024), financial resources will be made available to researchers to publish articles in OA journals and OA anthologies. Eligible for funding are researchers at the University of Basel who do not receive corresponding funding for their peer-reviewed publications from research funders, such as the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) or EU funding programs.

The University Library of Basel offers various options for open access publications with the repository edoc, other publication platforms as well as publication discounts. It also manages the publication fund and supports researchers with advice and training in the area of open access.

With the implementation of a targeted Research Data Management, the University of Basel pursues the goals of providing a basis for good scientific practice, enabling the subsequent use of research data for further research, and thus optimizing the societal benefit of research results. In this context, the University of Basel offers its members, among other things, consultations and courses on data management plans, on how to handle research data, and on how to publish them.