AuROA service catalog for scientific open access publications: Transparent listing of tasks for book publications

This service catalog provides a compilation of possible individual tasks and services in the scientific open access publishing process. The catalog is intended for use by all individuals and institutions involved in the publication process in their sometimes overlapping roles: authors and editors, publication service providers (publishers, repositories, etc.), sponsors (foundations, etc.), libraries, and other involved parties. They can decide for themselves which of the listed publication fields, services and technicalities are relevant to their work.

On the one hand, the aim is to create a basis for contracts or contract negotiations between the different involved parties in a transparent manner and on an equal footing, and to facilitate comparability. On the other hand, the catalog is intended to promote and facilitate cooperative forms of publication between the parties involved, especially in the digital domain.

The catalog is based on the results of the AuROA project (Autor:innen und Rechtssicherheit für Open Access - authors and legal certainty for open access), which examined the heterogeneous and complex needs, perspectives, and requirements entailed in open-access publishing for disciplines that regularly publish in book form. In order to achieve legally secure publication conditions, the AuROA contract generator was developed. This tool generates individual sample contracts for open access publications that are based, among other things, on elements from this service catalog. The University Library of the University of Duisburg-Essen headed the project in a two-year collaborative effort with the Department of Communication and Business at the IST Hochschule für Management in Düsseldorf and the Department of Book and Reading Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.