Open access in Austria

Open access to scholarly communication in Austria has developed in the 2010s largely through government initiatives.

[3] The international advocacy effort "OpenscienceASAP – Open Science as a Practice" is based in Austria.

[4][5] There are a number of collections of scholarship in Austria housed in digital open access repositories.

[6] They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read.

Key events in the development of open access in Austria include the following:

Growth of open access publications in Austria, 1990-2018
Number of open access publications in various Austrian repositories, 2018