Open Access Lab

Services
Authors
Affiliation

Katharina Böhmer

University of Bern

Alessandra Fedrigo

University of Bern

German version

Welcome to the OA Lab!

We provide advice and support for researchers who wish to publish in Diamond Open Access (DOA), independently of commercial publishers: as editorial board members, editorial teams, or authors of academic journals.

For Editorial Board Members For Editorial Teams For Authors

For Editorial Board Members

Together with you we design:

  • new OA journals
  • innovative features for your OA journal
  • strategies for the further development of existing OA journals

We support you in:

For questions about:

please contact the Open Science Team of the University Library of Bern UB: openaccess@ub.unibe.ch

For Editorial Teams

We share our expertise on the following topics:

  • designing OA-journal workflows
  • editorial process: guidelines for peer review, proofreading, stylesheet…
  • production process: formatting, typesetting, proofreading, publication…
  • best practices: workflow in OJS, image management (image rights and image editing)
  • communication with authors and editorial board, time management…
  • plagiarism check: software and handling of plagiarism
  • marketing strategies (social media).

We offer:

  • regular consultation and training for editorial teams of OA journals
  • assistance in optimizing editorial workflows

For questions about:

please contact the Open Science Team of the University Library of Bern UB: openaccess@ub.unibe.ch

For Authors

We advise you on:

  • image management (image rights and image editing)
  • communication with museums, libraries, archives, etc.
  • communication with editorial teams of OA journals
  • legal questions (copyright)

We offer tips on:

  • innovative presentation of image material
  • embedding multimedia features into texts (video, audio, etc.)

For questions about:

please contact the Open Science Team at University Library of Bern UB: openaccess@ub.unibe.ch

About Us

The OA Lab is a service of Digital Humanities at the University of Bern. Katharina Böhmer (director) and Alessandra Fedrigo (collaborator) played a key role in establishing the successful art history Diamond OA journal 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual as editors, are experts in the field of OA publishing for academic journals and specialists in digital image management. They are happy to share their in-depth editorial expertise and practical experience with everyone interested.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Contact:
Katharina Böhmer
Alessandra Fedrigo
oa-lab.dh@unibe.ch

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