Projects
Current projects
FDLink - Strengthening the framework conditions for cultural change and a shared service landscape
The collaborative project FDLink builds on the experience gained from the previous projects FDMentor and FDNext. It aims to connect researchers even more effectively with suitable services and to strengthen the universities' RDM contact points accordingly. The aim of the project is to develop strategies to simplify the establishment of RDM at the faculty level, models and handouts for the organizational embedding of RDM at the universities, specialist forums and modular RDM portfolios for target group-oriented recommendation of RDM services. The aim is to improve the consolidation of bottom-up and top-down measures at universities.
Within work package 1, the University of Potsdam intends to establish RDM in faculties, including Open and FAIR Data practices. The focus lies on the topics of RDM in university teaching, in doctoral agreements and in incentive structures as well as RDM support structures.
The partner institutions are the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Technische Universität Berlin, the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg and the European University Viadrina.
Funding period: 07/2024 - 06/2027
Contact person: Andreas Kennecke
Transform2Open - Cost monitoring, criteria, competencies, and processes of Open Access transformation
The DFG project Transform2Open is dedicated to the further development of budgets, criteria, competences and associated processes at scientific institutions relating to the financial dimensions of the Open Access transformation. The project ensures the successful interaction of various transformative efforts together with the DEAL project, openCost and other projects and initiatives in Germany and internationally.
Project partners of Transform2Open are the Helmholtz Open Science Office of the Helmholtz Association (Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft), the Central Library of Forschungszentrum Jülich and the University Library of the University of Potsdam.
Funding period: 02/2023 - 01/2026
Contact person: Tobias Höhnow
OA-WFMS - Workflow Management Systems for Open Access University Publishers
The BMBF-funded joint project Workflow Management Systems for Open Access University Publishersaims to analyze the business processes and workflows of university and other scholarly institutional publishers in the production of Open Access publications in consultation with stakeholders from the fields of scholarship and institutional publishing and on this basis to develop requirements for suitable workflow management systems (WFMS). By introducing a software solution to support their complex and multifaceted workflows, OA university presses’ production processes can be simplified and accelerated, thereby promoting the broader acceptance, impact and dissemination of Open Access.
The OA-WFMS project partner is the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig).
Funding period: 09/2023 to 08/2025
Contact person: Andreas Kennecke
Institutionalized and sustainable research data management in Brandenburg (IN-FDM-BB)
The IN-FDM-BB project emerged from the FDM-BB network of all eight state universities in Brandenburg and several non-university research institutions. The aim of the new funding phase is to establish and expand sustainable structures in Research Rata Management in the state of Brandenburg. The three-year project is being funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung/BMBF) and the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture Brandenburg (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur/MWFK) with almost 2.5 million euros.
Further information can be found in the joint press release of the FHP and UP or in the press release of the MWFK.
Funding period: 10/2022 - 09/2025
Contact person: Andreas Kennecke
Open Access Publication Funding
The project funded by the DFG's Open Access Publication Funding programme aims to strengthen and further expand the University of Potsdam's Open Access activities. With the help of the transformation contracts and the publication fund offered since 2015, as well as the accompanying educational and advertising measures, the Open Access share of journal articles is to be continuously increased from 75% (as of 2021).
Another goal is to further develop and automate the existing workflows for the university-wide recording of all publication costs. A central monitoring process is to be implemented at the University Library based on two technical components: the University's central document management system, which will be used university-wide for the receipt and processing of electronic invoices, and the publication management system Output.UP, which aggregates all relevant publication and cost information.
Funding period: 01/2022 - 12/2024
Contact person: Tobias Höhnow