Optimierung der Workflows für Zweitveröffentlichungen – der „Grüne Weg“ am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is part of the Helmholtz Association and, with around 5,000 scientists and nearly 9,000 publications a year, is one of the most research-intensive institutions in Europe. The focus of the work in the institutional repository KITopen lies primarily in the area of publication management, which provides an important basis for the multiple reports of the research institution. Today, KITopen is part of a modular research information system and the KIT library is constantly expanding its services in this area. Open Access is also becoming an increasingly important indicator for the KIT, since the Open Access Guideline of the Helmholtz Association has been adopted in 2016: Like many other research organizations, the Helmholtz Association is committed to make all publications affected by this policy available in open access by the end of 2025. The article shows how the KIT library reacted to this new constellation and sustainably strengthened the green open access path through the expansion of the KITopen repository. Not only technical and workflow-specific requirements play a role here: The core of this innovative approach at KIT are first and foremost the policy decisions of the KIT Library, which demand to consistently interpret the legal conditions and harmonize their uniform communication throughout the varying user interfaces.