GenderOpen in a New Design – Relaunch Completed

Screenshot of the homepage of the GenderOpen repository. In the top left corner, the logo “Gender Open Repositorium” is displayed. At the center, a large banner reads “Geschlechterforschung entdecken” (“Discover Gender Research”) with a short description of GenderOpen’s services. Below it, a yellow button says “Mehr Informationen im GenderOpen-Blog” (“More information on the GenderOpen blog”). On the right side of the image, there is a black-and-white historical photo showing three persons cleaning and placing books into a shelf.

After a comprehensive relaunch, GenderOpen now presents itself in a modernized design and with enhanced functionalities. In addition to a clearer and more intuitive search, contributions can now be filtered more easily by subject, author, or publication type. This further facilitates access to several thousand freely available texts in gender studies.

Following the relaunch, GenderOpen now runs on DSpace 8.2. The relaunch was carried out in collaboration with The Library Code and the Working Group on Electronic Publishing at the University Library of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, as part of the GenderOpen project of the Berlin University Alliance.

A more detailed post on the relaunch has been published on the Toolbox Gender and Diversity in Teaching blog.

Bessere Auffindbarkeit: Zeitschriftenbeiträge aus drei Fachzeitschriften online

Das Repositorium GenderOpen hat seinen Bestand deutlich ausgeweitet. Ab sofort sind nahezu alle Artikel aus älteren Ausgaben der GENDER. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, der femina politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, sowie der Freiburger Zeitschrift für GeschlechterStudien verfügbar. Letztere erschien ab 1995 unter dem Titel Freiburger FrauenStudien und ab 2007 als Freiburger GeschlechterStudien.

Die drei Zeitschriften erscheinen beim Verlag Barbara Budrich, dem wir für die Zusammenarbeit danken. Sämtliche Beiträge stehen im Volltext zur Verfügung und können im Rahmen der jeweiligen Creative-Commons-Lizenzen nachgenutzt werden.

Durch die Aufnahme in GenderOpen sind die Artikel noch besser auffindbar, da die Bestände u. a. in BASE, Google Scholar und im Meta-Katalog verzeichnet sind. Die Integration der umfangreicheren Zeitschriftenbestände wurde durch einen Workflow möglich, den das medienwissenschaftliche Repositorium media/rep/ entwickelt und uns zur Nachnutzung bereitgestellt hat.

Insgesamt verzeichnet GenderOpen nun 3.666 Beiträge.

Now 3,000 texts on GenderOpen

GenderOpen celebrates a milestone: more than 3,000 texts are now freely accessible via the open access repository for gender studies! Since the launch of GenderOpen, our goal has been to make academic work visible and accessible in the long term – for researchers, students and all interested parties.

This success is only possible thanks to the numerous submissions from the community and the close cooperation with publishers. We would like to thank all those who share their research via GenderOpen and thus strengthen Open Access in gender studies.

Are you looking for relevant literature or would you like to publish an article yourself? Browse through our constantly growing collection or find out here how you can make your research visible on GenderOpen.

Here’s to the next 3,000!

Access at Risk

Information for Authors and Institutions Facing Barriers to Sharing Their Research

GenderOpen is a repository for gender research based in Germany. Since its start in 2017, GenderOpen has focused on making openly accessible gender research from German speaking countries. 

In light of current developments, particularly in the US, we want to help securing access to research by offering our services to researches from gender and women’s studies, trans studies, diversity and intersectionality studies that feel that access to their research is under thread.

For example, if you run a working paper series or an open access journal whose access is currently under threat, please contact us at info@genderopen.de.

The types of texts that GenderOpen accepts and makes accessible are:

  • journal articles,
  • papers in edited volumes or proceedings,
  • doctoral dissertations,
  • monographs,
  • working papers

These text types have already been subjected to quality assurance, and GenderOpen does not carry out an additional evaluation of the content of submissions. 

Ideally, the version deposited in GenderOpen should be the original published one, but we also accept authors’ preprint or postprint versions. We recommend that you use a version with pagination corresponding to the published version. Moreover, the contribution must be available as a PDF file free of technical security restrictions, or even better as a PDF/A file.

Terms and Conditions for Uploading Texts to GenderOpen

To upload a publication to GenderOpen, authors must be able to grant the repository the rights to a secondary publication under a Creative Commons license. This requires consideration of the following conditions:

  • Author Rights: If the authors hold the rights to their publication, all co-authors must provide their consent for the upload.
  • Third-Party Rights: If the rights are held by a publisher or an institution, permission from the rights holder must be obtained before depositing the text.
  • Previously Open Access Publications: If the publication was already made available as an Open Access publication, it may be uploaded, provided that the chosen license allows for redistribution.

Additionally, authors should ensure that their submission complies with any applicable legal and contractual obligations, such as embargo periods or specific publisher policies on self-archiving.

2500 Entries on GenderOpen

GenderOpen has reached the mark of 2500 entries. Articles can now be uploaded using a partially automated process, so that we will be able to make larger volumes of the journals GENDER and femina politica available in the coming weeks. We are also planning to upgrade the repository software in 2025, which we will report on here.

New Project Period – Funded by the Berlin University Alliance

In February 2022, GenderOpen entered the next project period: funded by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA), GenderOpen can be consolidated and further developed over the next four years. 

The tasks within the framework of BUA funding include, on the one hand, the internationalization of the publishing service and the corresponding expansion of content acquisition. On the other hand, the need for an open-access primary and secondary publishing service for PhD theses and other types of documents will be investigated. If need be, this service will be developed. Furthermore, it is planned to link and integrate the existing Open Access projects in gender studies, with regard to an adaptable concept of “openness” for similarly complex and diversely organized scientific fields. Finally, an application for third-party funding for the further development of the project should also be submitted.

Projektlogbuch 2021

17. März 2021

Das Projektteam hat einen neuen Workflow umgesetzt, um Beiträge in GenderOpen zu übernehmen. Dabei kommen verschiedene Tools zum Einsatz: Wir nutzen Citavi, um Metadaten zu erfassen, Beiträge inhaltlich zu erschließen sowie um Arbeitsstände zu dokumentieren. Mit Hilfe von Libre Office Calc und dem SAFBuilder werden sie dann paketweise auf GenderOpen hochgeladen. Auf dieser technischen und organisatorischen Grundlage werden wir zukünftig Zeitschriftenartikel und andere Publikationen von kooperierenden Verlagen und Redaktionen verwalten.

18. Februar 2021

Beiträge über GenderOpen verfügbar zu machen ist jetzt noch einfacher: Ab sofort können Autor_innen auf elektronischem Weg eine Nutzungsvereinbarung abschließen. Außerdem haben wir die Lizenzauswahl beim Upload von Publikationen vereinfacht. Hier erfahren Sie, wie Sie Publikationen auf GenderOpen veröffentlichen können.

16. Februar 2021

GenderOpen hat die 2000er Marke geknackt: Damit bietet das Repositorium kostenfreien Vollltextzugang zu mehr als 2000 Publikationen, die überwiegend auch frei weiter genutzt werden können. Möglich macht dies der Fokus auf Open Access – die freie Lizenzierung von Zweitpublikationen. Wir danken allen Autor_innen und Kooperationspartner_innen für die Unterstützung!

First Project Period Finalized Successfully

The cost-neutral extension of the DFG project expired on October 31, 2019. Until the decision on further funding in a larger project context is made, content acquisition can only be carried out to a small extent and submissions cannot be processed immediately. We will inform you about the progress of the project right here..

GenderOpen erhält das DINI-Zertifikat

Das GenderOpen-Repositorium erhält das Zertifikat für Open-Access-Repositorien und -Publikationsdienste 2016 der Deutschen Initiative für Netzwerkinformation! Das DINI-Zertifikat ist das zentrale Gütesiegel für Vertrauenswürdigkeit, Nachhaltigkeit und Qualität von Open-Access-Repositorien und –Publikationsdiensten im deutschsprachigen Raum. GenderOpen erfüllt alle Anforderungen des DINI-Kriterienkatalogs, etwa hinsichtlich der Organisationsstruktur, der Benutzer_innenoberfläche oder den technischen Schnittstellen. Mit dem DINI-Zertifikat erreicht GenderOpen einen zentralen Meilenstein und ist hervorragend aufgestellt für zukünftige Aufgaben. Neben den Mindestanforderungen erfüllt GenderOpen übrigens auch den überwiegenden Teil der nichtverpflichtenden DINI-Empfehlungen.

GenderOpen in the META Catalogue

From now on, the publications in the GenderOpen repository are also findable in the META catalogue of i.d.a., the umbrella organization of German language lesbian/women’s libraries, archives and documentation centers! The META catalogue is the central search tool for the collections of about forty institutions in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Italy and Switzerland. For a DFG-funded infrastructure project, this link to self-organized projects is unique!