Open Access

"What is Open Access?

Open access means that academic literature should be available free of charge and publicly on the Internet, so that interested parties can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search in, refer to, and otherwise use the full texts in any legal way possible, without financial, legal, or technical barriers beyond those associated with Internet access itself.

The October 22, 2003 publication of the "Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities" and the annual conferences set in motion by this act initiated a process that has raised global awareness of the accessibility issues surrounding scholarly information. The year 2013 marked the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Berlin Declaration.

Further information on Open Access can be found on the DFG-funded information platform open-access.net.

• On June 30, 2014, EUF President Prof. Dr. Werner Reinhart signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access; see also Signatories of the Berlin Declaration.
   
• On December 18, 2017, Europa-Universität Flensburg and the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences agreed to common principles for a joint Open Access Policy, set forth in their Declaration on Open Access.
   
• One focus of the promotion of publications at the EUF is the promotion of open access publications, see also the information provided by the ZHB.