Several projects in the field of open access transformation share the common goal with openCost ofcreating cost transparency by focussing on interrelated topics and tasks such as funding, financialsustainability, budgeting, monitoring, appropriate workflows and tools, networking, and promoting exchange. Four projects are particularly closely linked: Since 2019, open-access.network has created an information and networking platform on the topic of open access, organised workshops onthe information budget, has published several resources on open access funding, and has launchedfocus groups to connect stakeholders and initiatives and improve their exchange. Since 2023, Transform2Open supports transformational activities at research institutions in Germany by improvingand developing cost monitoring mechanisms, promoting overarching information budgets, developing international criteria, optimizing workflows, promoting financial transparency, and developing competency profiles. Close cooperation and several in-depth consultations of openCost andTransform2Open pursue especially the streamlining of data schemata and data transfer to other systems. Since 2024, OA Datenpraxis focuses on promoting and establishing processes and proceduresfor sovereign data practice in shaping the open access transformation by improving data-drivenadministration, developing standards for collaborative data practices, minimizing dependencies oncommercial data sources, and improving respective information services. A recent addition, havingstarted in 2026, the goal of OASA (Open Access Scenario Analysis) is to analyse financial development perspectives in the open access domain and to assess their potential impacts –to be realisedthrough systematic scenario analyses, various participatory formats, the development of recommendations, and transfer activities supporting operational actions at academic institutions. The posterpresents the four projects and shows their interrelations as well as future collaboration avenues withopenCost and other relevant initiatives and actors.
Lange et al. (Thu,) studied this question.