To mark Open Access Week 2020, the SNSF and swissuniversities are launching a joint campaign in which researchers and senior academic administrators speak out in favour of open access publishing. In eight short videos, they demand “knowledge for all”.
“Open access is a politically smart move – it gives science and research greater legitimacy.”
Bruno Staffelbach, President University of Lucerne.
“At first, when publishing OA, I could only find my way with difficulty through the jungle of licences. But I got good advice from my higher education institution.”
Julian Dederke, political scientist ETH Zurich
“Scientists want to do science, not decipher the obligations attached to open access! We have created an online assistant that gives them the information they need.”
Micaela Crespo Quesada, open access coordinator University of Lausanne
“We support open access – all journals should be open for researchers to publish in.”
Ulrich Weidmann, Vice President of Infrastructure ETH Zurich
“We need new ways of publishing, so that open access is available to everyone in art history.”
Beate Fricke, art historian, University of Bern and editor of the OA journal 21Inquiries.
“The role of libraries is to enable research. With open access – no more paywalls – they will be able to do this a lot better.”
Christian Oesterheld, director of Zentralbibliothek Zürich
“The peer review processes of open access journals must be of a consistently high standard – this is doable!”
Dasaraden Mauree, climate researcher, formerly EPF Lausanne
“Open access is also about equal opportunities for researchers.”
Melanie Röthlisberger, linguist University of Zurich
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