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DINI Certificate "Document and Publication Services" 2010

In summer 2010 the DINI working group for Electronic Publishing released 
the third edition of the DINI Certificate "Document and Publication 
Services" and by this adapted the well-established criteria catalogue 
for scholarly repository services to current developments. Now, the 
English version of the DINI Certificate 2010 has been made available to 
the public.

The global scientific communication system is subject to a fundamental 
transition process. Due to new opportunities arising from the internet 
and other information and communication technologies and also to the 
changing requirements of scholars and scientists, new means and channels 
for scientific communication develop. A leading development is the 
global Open Access movement committed to the idea of freely available 
scientific and scholarly publications.

To support the numerous developments in Germany and to set common 
standards for publication infrastructures DINI's Electronic Publishing 
working group embraced this topic early on and in 2002 published its 
first recommendations for "Electronic Publishing in Higher Education". 
Based on these documents, the working group formulated criteria and 
formalized them in the DINI Certificate "Document and Publication 
Services". Following the 2004 and 2007 editions, 2010 is the third 
version of the document. The certificate describes technical, 
organisational and legal aspects that should be considered in the 
process of setting up and operating a scholarly repository service and 
puts considerable interest in Open Access. The aim of DINI is to move 
forward towards a standardised and interoperable repository landscape to 
improve the visibility and linkages of scientific publications.  During 
the years the DINI certificate has gained reputation as standard-setting 
authority for repositories.

The latest edition of the DINI certificate addresses particularly the 
following aspects:
     - The growing importance of the "golden road" to Open Access.
     - The increased demand for interoperability with comprehensive 
services.
     - The growing technical virtualization of Document and Publication 
Services (hosting of services).
     - A comprehensive view of the scientific and scholarly research 
processes.

The new English version can be found at
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100182800

Today, there are about 140 OA repositories in Germany. A list of German 
repositories can be found at
http://www.dini.de/dini-zertifikat/liste-der-repositorien

Different DINI projects such as OA Network and OA Statistics promote the 
further development of repositories in Germany. Please visit 
http://www.dini.de/projekte/eng/ for an overview.

*About DINI*
The German Initiative for Network Information (DINI, Deutsche Initiative 
für Netzwerkinformation) is the most relevant organisation in Germany 
for supporting a national repository infrastructure. DINI is organised 
in working groups for thematic fields like IPR, Standards and Electronic 
Publishing. DINI regularly organises workshops and conferences for 
promoting the use and the quality of digital repositories. It has 
initiated several projects to support the technical development of a 
network of digital repositories and actively encourages the process of 
DINI certification. The DINI certificate was developed and is regularly 
updated by the Electronic Publishing working group. The certification 
process evaluates and improves the quality of publication services by 
referring to international standards and quality criteria. In 
consequence, the process improves data quality and conformity to enable 
services and the networking of repositories. Currently 37 German 
repositories have received the DINI certificate.

*Contact*
Dr. Uwe Müller | [log in to unmask]
Frank Scholze  | [log in to unmask]

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Helmholtz Open Access Project
Coordination Office

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14473 Potsdam
Fon: + 49 (0) 331-288 1948
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