On 7 July 2026, from 10:00 to 11:30 CEST, Justus Liebig University Giessen will offer the online workshop Open Access Publishing and the Open Access Policy of JLU. The workshop is open to all interested members of the EUPeace Alliance and will take place in English.
About the event
Open Access means unrestricted online access to scholarly journal literature. The workshop will explain how Open Access can make research easier to find, read and cite, and why it has become an important publishing model, particularly in the life sciences.
Topics covered
Participants will receive an introduction to the scholarly publishing process and to different ways of publishing Open Access. The course will cover the “golden road” to Open Access through Open Access journals, the “green road” through repositories, and examples such as PLoS, BioMedCentral and PubMed Central.
Funding and policy information
The workshop will also present the Open Access publishing fund and the Open Access policy of Justus Liebig University Giessen. It is offered within the Doctoral Development Programme of the International Giessen Graduate Centre for the Life Sciences (GGL).
