Quality standards for Open Access books
The AG Universitätsverlage has already developed „Quality Standards for Open Access Monographs and Edited Volumes“ in 2018, setting standards for OA monographs that go beyond the description of the status quo. The quality criteria are aimed both at the members of the working group and at commercial book publishers whose OA publications are supported by public funds (OA monograph fund).
A revised and expanded second version was published in 2022 and presented and discussed by Dagmar Schobert and Margo Bargheer at the Open Access Days in Bern (2022) (slides).
In 2026, the third version was published, which takes into account the latest developments in the open-access publishing landscape and provides guidelines for the publication of Gold and Diamond open-access books.
Version 3 (2026)
- DE: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Universitätsverlage. (2026). Qualitätsstandards für Open-Access-Bücher (Version 3). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22938571
Version 2 (2022)
- DE: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Universitätsverlage. (2022). Qualitätsstandards für Open-Access-Bücher (Version 2). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7075761
- EN: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Universitätsverlage. (2023). Quality Standards for Open Access Books (Version 2). Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/record/7743833
Version 1 (2018)
- DE: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Universitätsverlage. (2018). Qualitätsstandards für Open-Access-Monografien und -Sammelbände (Version 1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3562239
- EN: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Universitätsverlage. (2021). Quality Standards for Open Access Books. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4622135
