LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

AHCI

Arts and Humanities Citation Index

APC

article processing charge

BBAW

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

BMBF

Federal Ministry of Education and Research

BOAI

Budapest Open Access Initiative

CC

Creative Commons

CODATA

Committee on Data for Science and Technology

DFG

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council)

DINI

German Initiative for Network Information

DOAJ

Directory of Open Access Journals

DOI

digital object identifier

DRM

digital rights management

EC

European Commission

ERC

European Research Council

FhG

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer Society)

GDCh

Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker

GWK

Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz des Bundes und der Länder (General Science Conference of the Federal Government and the States)

HEFCE

Higher Education Funding Council for England

HEI

higher education institution

HGF

Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres)

HRK

German Rectors Conference

IAP

InterAcademy Partnership

ICSU

International Council for Science

IP

intellectual property

IR

institutional repository

ISSC

International Social Science Council

IWG

interdisciplinary working group

JCR

Journal Citation Report

JIF

journal impact factor

JISC

Joint Information Systems Committee

KE

Knowledge Exchange

KII

Commission on the Future of Information Infrastructure

MPDL

Max Planck Digital Library

MPG

Max Planck Society

NPM

new public management

OA

open access

OJS

Open Journal Systems

OSF

Open Science Foundation

PR

public relations

RfII

Council for Information Infrastructure

RIN

Research Information Network

ROARMAP

Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies

RSC

Royal Society of Chemistry

SCI

Science Citation Index

SOAP

Study of Open Access Publishing

SPARC

Scholarly Publishing Initiative

SSCI

Social Science Citation Index

STM

science, technology and medicine

TA

toll access

TELOTA

The Electronic Life Of The Academy

TWAS

The World Academy of Sciences

UrhG

German Copyright Act

VAT

value added tax

WGL

Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Science Association)

ZPID

Leibniz-Zentrum für Psychologische Information und Dokumentation (Leibniz Institute for Psychology)