Open Science

The University Library supports members of the University in research and publishing processes with a comprehensive portfolio of resources and research-oriented services. We follow the FAIR principles – findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable – and advocate for open access to research findings whenever possible.

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Research data management (RDM) refers to the planning, organisation, storage, documentation and dissemination of research data throughout the research process.
It includes the development of strategies and guidelines for the efficient management of data to ensure that it is accessible, traceable, secure and usable in the long term. The aim of research data management is to improve the quality, integrity and reusability of research data and thus make research more effective.
Jade University offers the following services:
Training courses on all relevant topics in research data management: data management plan, metadata, repository search, first guiding principles for data protection and copyright issues, etc.
Assessment of needs and shared development of strategies for a FAIR RDM
Project assistance “light”: research projects can be guided and supported on request
Individual counselling: in person, by phone, via email
New: research data management in teaching – planned from WS 2026/27
The setup of a sustainable research data management at Jade University is embedded in a project of the State Initiative Research Data Management Lower Saxony and is supported by the Ministry for Science and Culture (MWK) and the Volkswagen Foundation.
Jade University recommends that our members follow the principle of open access in accordance with the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”. As per the open access policy confirmed by the University senate, the University supports researchers through the setup and maintenance of open access infrastructures and a wide range of counselling, training and publishing services by the University Library.
The services at Jade University include:
Publishing support
Open access publishing funds
Support programme NiedersachsenOPEN
Participation in initiatives to support science-led open access
Participation in transformative open access agreements with commercial publishers
Publishing infrastructures
coming soon: University repository oktoPUS
SciFlow Authoring Platform
Participation in commissions for persistent identifiers (TIB DOI Konsortium, soon: ORCID DE Konsortium)