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The ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ therefore offers its members infrastructures, consulting and training services as well as financial support in the areas of Open Access and research data management.

The ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ is a co-signatory of the . In this sense, it has been pursuing the goal of achieving open access to scientific publications with its OA policy and supporting services since 2013. At the end of 2019, the OA policy of the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ was adapted to the current framework conditions and an OA publication fund was additionally established. Within the framework of a pilot project (2020-2024), financial resources will be made available to researchers to publish articles in OA journals and OA anthologies. Eligible for funding are researchers at the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ who do not receive corresponding funding for their peer-reviewed publications from research funders, such as the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) or EU funding programs.

The University Library of Basel offers various options for open access publications with the repository , other publication platforms as well as publication discounts. It also manages the publication fund and supports researchers with advice and training in the area of open access.

With the implementation of a targeted , the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ pursues the goals of providing a basis for good scientific practice, enabling the subsequent use of research data for further research, and thus optimizing the societal benefit of research results. In this context, the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ offers its members, among other things, consultations and courses on data management plans, on how to handle research data, and on how to publish them.