From Google’s English:  “For a long time, Open Access was more of a bottom-up movement. In the meantime, however, the EU and national political platforms are also campaigning for this. Free access to science is a central component of the European Research Area Policy Agenda, which was adopted in 2021 and is now to be inscribed in the national legal systems. In Austria, the Open Science Austria platform, now under the umbrella of the University Conference (Uniko), is working on the topic. The Austrian Science Fund FWF also backed Open Access early on….

In Austria, the “Austrian Transition to Open Access” (AT2OA) project, which is supported by university actors, is responsible for bringing together publication metadata from different universities – a development that puts Austria in a relatively good position when it comes to infrastructure. Ultimately, this could also result in a pilot for a research documentation system that covers the entire publication activity in the publicly funded area. Mayer emphasizes that other states, in which the activities are already structured in a national policy framework and are not only based on initiatives by the knowledge actors themselves, are already further along in this regard….”