Open Access

Full Visibility of Achivements

1. Full visibility barrier free! Online at your fingertips without pay barriers.
2. Full visibility now! Not only metadata (author, title, abstract, year), but the full text now (not after 12 month embargo period).
3. Full visibility easy to retrieve! Documents are well indexed: Use of DOI, URN, cataloged in National Library, Dublin Core, ...
4. Full visibility still in the future! The full text guaranteed available also in 100 years and beyond through archiving.

My Initiatives

• Continuous Open Access Special Issue Aircraft Design at MDPI (http://journal.AircraftDesign.org, since 2020)
• HAW Hamburg is Library Registrar at perma.cc (https://perma.cc)
• Open Access with a Personal Repository (http://repository.ProfScholz.de)
• Open Access at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences:
• Literature Database for Open Access, realized with Sevenpack under Typo3 (Example: Scholz, access only at HAW Hamburg)
• URN-Unternamensraum für die HAW: urn:nbn:de:gbv:18302 (Eintrag Nr. 377)
• Signature Budapest Open Access Initiative: for the organization (put "Hamburg" in search box) & as individual (not visible anymore)
• Open Access at the German Air & Space Conference 2015 of the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (DGLR). See details of the new publication process
• Open Access at the European Air & Space Conference 2015 of the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS). See details of the new publication process
• Set up of Open Access Journal: Advances in Aerospace Science and Technology (up to April 2016)
• Support to set up Open Access Disciplinary Repositories (up to April 2016):
• Submit a new manuscript to OALib PrePrints for preliminary review, typesetting, and deposit into a selected Disciplinary Repository (Free)
• Submit Preprint or Postprint from any journal with its metadata to a selected Disciplinary Repository (Free)

My Blog Entries

• 2015-02-06: DOAJ - Fully Functional Now for Application and Reapplication

Comments and Questions by Prof. Scholz on OASPA's Blog

• 2014-11-11: Confusion with NPG Goes On. "Scientific Data" Does Not Meet All of OASPA’s Criteria
• 2014-11-03: „Nature Communications“ Does Not Meet OASPA’s Criteria - However, the publisher became an OASPA member anyway!?
• 2014-09-30: What We Learn from Springer’s Final Report on SCIgen - Generated Papers
• 2014-09-04: Full Criteria Applied for Reinstating Springer’s Membership?
• 2014-02-12: OASPA Establishes Unclear or Even Contradicting Rules --- Traditional Publishers Exploit the Open Access Idea with Hybrid OA
• 2014-02-09: Critical Comments about OASPA Granting Membership to Publisher Brill



• 2014-06-10: DOAJ's Questions on Application Form; DOAJ's Selection Criteria; "Principles of Transparency" - Not Everything Fits Together
• 2014-01-13: How to Evaluate the Peer Review Process? Hoax versus Transparency
• 2014-01-06: Several Questions Related to the "Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing"
• 2014-01-13: The Open Access Spectrum (OAS) on an Even Closer Look: Dimension 5 (Automatic Posting)
• 2014-01-12: The Open Access Spectrum (OAS): Is is Dead? Why on PLOS? OAS Questioned: Dimension 5 (Automatic Posting); Dimension 6 (Machine Readability). Proposal: NEW Dimension 7: Review Process

Comments and Questions by Prof. Scholz on DOAJ's Blog

• 2015-08-24: DOAJ is Blacklisting — Again — and Broke a Promise Not To Do So
• 2015-06-02: Copyright and Licensing - My Review and Explanation
• 2015-05-20: How are jounal level pages defined?
• 2015-05-17: Definition of Green OA and Gold OA.
• 2015-05-04: Seal and Metadata Upload --- Information about "Allow to crawl?"
• 2015-02-17: Data Items Visible and Invisible – Data Items Compulsory and Voluntary
• 2015-02-11: Insufficient Data in the DOAJ (e.g. to Check the DOAJ Seal Awarded to a Journal)
• 2015-02-10: DOAJ, Please Guide Us to Good Examples Showing APC (Elsevier and De Gruyter do not qualify as good examples!)
• 2015-01-28: QUESTION 25: LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Portico, PMC, National Library, Others
• 2015-01-04: Crystal Clear Criteria Please!
• 2014-12-09: Impact Factors (IF) --- IF Related to Acceptance into DOAJ? --- How to Legitimately Calculate an IF?
• 2014-10-23: DOAJ Started Blacklisting and Broke a Promise Not to Do So.
  DOAJ stopped this after this blog entry! Thanks DOAJ!
• 2014-10-01: How does DOAJ Cope with its Workload? - My little DOAJ-Statistic and Mathematical Look into DOAJ’s Future
• 2014-08-26: DOAJ POINTS Measure Valuable Open Access Journal Characteristics Objectively
• 2014-07-08: Getting Prepared for (Re)Application - Digital Archiving Policy (DOAJ Question 23)
• 2014-06-27: Getting Prepared for (Re)Application - Deposit Policy (DOAJ Question 49)
• 2014-05-24: Filling out the New Application Form - Hints from a Careful Study of DOAJ’s Web Page - What Your Journal MUST HAVE for Acceptance

Comments by Prof. Scholz on COPE's Forum Discussions leading to Forum Discussion Documents

• 2015-05-07: Proposal for an improved and extended Standard Retraction Form

Comments by Prof. Scholz on Scholarly Kitchen (It is not possible anymore to jump directly to the comments. Please search for "Scholz" on the page.)

• 2015-09-17: Contradicting Rules about EiCs at DOAJ and Hindawi Working without EiCs
• Comments on "Why We Need a Blacklist, and Some Suggestions on How to Do It Right"
• 2015-08-18: How Beall’s List scores in light of the proposed criteria. "deceptive publishing". More ...
• 2015-08-18: DOAJ’s (Black)List: Tab "Added", Tab "Removed", Tab "Rejected Applications". The broader view about DOAJ
• 2015-08-23: How to set up a site checking journals on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
• 2015-08-23: Arguing the case for a site checking journals on "Best Practice"
• Comments on "Should We Retire the Term 'Predatory Publishing'?"
• 2015-05-11: A longer comment - My own blog post
• 2015-05-11: Yes, it is so easy to use Beall’s list, but ...
• 2015-05-11: Beall maintains an unscientific list of 789 "potential, possible, or probable predatory" publishers: Not helpful!
• 2015-05-11: We know there is an alternative: The DOAJ whitelist.
• 2015-05-11: We do not need any (unethical) blacklist. Journals with good cost effectiveness will grow, the others will wither!
• 2015-05-17: Beall's writings are not scientific. Blacklisting is unethical. Whitelisting may not cover everything, but the best ethical move.
• 2015-05-19: Let Me Try to Provide a More Systematic Approach with this Comment
• 2015-05-23: How to Deal with Thieves!
• 2015-05-23: To conclude: Trying to Understand what Motivates Activities
• 2015-05-11: Reposted to LinkedIn: Open Access
• 2015-04-30: An answer to: "What is editorial independence and how does it impact publishing?"
• 2015-04-30: These points should be in the contract of an EiC for an OA journal working on APC
• 2015-03-30: The publisher has to let the journal (ship) on its journey with its EiC (captain)
• 2015-02-24: We do not need more restrictions from the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) — Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCN) facilitate uploading
• 2015-01-06: Springer not showing Article Processing Charges (APC)
• 2015-01-05: Societies, OA, and the Commercial Arrangement
• 2014-12-27: Unsolicited Commercial E-Mails: Spam is Always What Others Do
• 2014-12-18: The real problem with Nature Publishing Group (NPG) / Macmillan Publishers
• 2014-09-10: Distinguish between QUESTIONS and CRITERIA --- What Your Journal MUST HAVE --- DOAJ POINTS

Blog Posts by Prof. Scholz on LinkedIn (My LinkedIn posts are gone

• 2015-05-11: Should We Retire the Term "Predatory Publishing"? (Find this here.)
• 2015-03-05: Directory of Open Access Journals Introduces New Standards to Help Community Address Quality Concerns (This post is gone now.)

My Publications Related to "Open Access"

Poster and Presentation:
DGLR_PRE_JournalRanking_15-09-22.pdf     Upload:  08 October 2020,     Size:  434K

SCHOLZ, Dieter, 2015. Publish your DLRK 2015 - Paper in a Special Issue of the Journal Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology by Emerald Group Publishing!. Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress (Rostock, 22. - 24. September 2015). Available from: http://OA.ProfScholz.de.

Poster and Presentation:
Publish_with_AEAT_for_DLRK2015.pdf.pdf     Upload:  17 September 2015,     Size:  204K

SCHOLZ, Dieter, 2014. Publication Options Suitable for Aircraft Design - Open Access Journals Edited by Members of European Aerospace Organizations. 4th Symposium on Collaboration in Aircraft Design (25. to 27.11.2014, Toulouse, France). Available from: http://OA.ProfScholz.de and http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3594626.

Presentation:
OA_PRE_SCAD_14-11-25.pdf     Upload:  29 December 2019,     Size:  609K

SCHOLZ, Dieter, 2013. Open Access Publishing in Aerospace – Opportunities and Pitfalls. In: MELIN, Tomas; KRUS, Petter; VINTERHAV, Emil; ÖVREBÖ, Knut: PROCEEDINGS of the 4th CEAS Conference in Linköping, 2013 (4th CEAS Air & Space Conference, 16. to 19.09.2013, Linköping, Sweden), pp 503-515. ISBN 978-91-7519-519-3, http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-99581, DocumentID: 236. Available from: http://OA.ProfScholz.de and http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.546649 (Paper), http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18921 (Presentation).

Paper (peer-reviewed):
OA_PUB_CEAS_13-09-16.pdf     Upload:  13 December 2014,     Size:  419K

Presentation:
OA_PRE_CEAS_13-09-16.pdf     Upload:  03 October 2013,     Size:  1.6M

My Memos Related to "Open Access"

AAST_M_JournalMetrics_14-12-06.pdf     Upload:  08 December 2014,     Size:   505K    

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  Prof. Dr. Scholz
  Aircraft Design and Systems Group (AERO)
  Aeronautical Engineering
  Department of Automotive and Aeronautical Engineering
  Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
  Hamburg University of Applied Sciences