How does Green Open Access work?
Workshop for GASCA members
Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 10-12 am, online, German
Dr Kathleen Heft and Anja Rosenbaum
Findings from social and cultural anthropological research are often published in closed access, i.e. in fee-based publications and under restrictive usage rights. Researchers with limited financial resources and without access to libraries as well as research partners and the interested public find it difficult to access these research findings.
In many cases, however, publications published in closed access can be subsequently converted to open access and made available to a wide audience. Green open access, also known as secondary publication or self-archiving, makes scientific publications available via repositories and guarantees free and permanent access as well as their findability via search engines and databases.
The workshop teaches the basics of Green Open Access and introduces tools, repositories, checklists and contact points that support social and cultural anthropologists in transferring their publications to Open Access. In the hands-on part of the workshop, we will prepare the secondary publication of one of our own publications. Participants will have the opportunity to use the tools and checklists presented and clarify the most important questions, e.g. on secondary publication rights, publishing policies and manuscript versions. At the end, they will be able to archive their publication independently in a repository.
Following the two-hour workshop, you will have the opportunity to take part in an optional consultation hour.
The workshop is organised by the project ‘EthnOA – Open Access in the ethnological disciplines’ of the Specialised Information Service for Social and Cultural Anthropology. Write to us if you have any questions about the programme: ethnoa-kontakt@hu-berlin.de.
Please register for the workshop by 2 April 2025 at the following link: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/b/2506c9d5d22be018bcfd7dc800d9528b-1095943
The number of participants is limited to 30. The workshop offer is primarily aimed at members of the GASCA and DGEKW. You will receive the dial-in link to the Zoom room by e-mail a few days in advance.