Projects:

Currently, two projects are high on the agenda of the Information Centre and Library.

Open Journal System

Free access to publications, to the results of publicly funded research in particular, is one aim of the open access movement. The Julius Kühn Institute (JKI)  is committed to making its publications freely available.  Using the open-source software Open Journal Systems (OJS), it has established  an internet platform where scientific articles are directly available. Besides the online presentation of journal articles, the OJS is designed for facilitating and concentrating  on one platform the entire management workflow  of a journal, including article submission, peer reviews but also the processes of journal layout and editing.

For the time being, the OJS of the Julius Kühn Institutes is hosting nine journals, which can be searched entirely and free of charge.  The software, which was initially developed by several North American universities as part of the Public Knowledge Project  (http://pkp.sfu.ca), is being continuously enhanced and adapted to new needs. To make a contribution here, the JKI cooperates with the Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS) at  Freie Universität Berlin.  As a so-called „pilot user“, the JKI participates in the DFG-funded project „ojs.de“  and works actively to improve workflows within OJS, e.g. allowing  the export of metadata for the registration process of Digital Object Identifiers (DOI), enhancing the automated review concept or making the system compliant with the literature management programmes in terms of citation and storage of bibliographic data.

The OJS of the Julius Kühn Institute is accessible at http://pub.jki.bund.de

Repository of BMELV research

The repository is a joint project of the four research institutes overseen by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV):

• Julius Kühn Institute  (responsible for cultivated plants),
• Friedrich Loeffler Institute (animal health)
• Max Rubner Institute (nutrition and food)
• Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute (rural development, forestry and fisheries)

as well as

• Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and
• Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE)

The project partners have regular consultations with the working committee representing the scientific libraries under the umbrella of the BMELV.  Jointly, necessary  storage capacities and measures for establishing an open access repository are defined. Besides identifying  appropriate technological solutions, aspects of copyright and intellectual property rights are being discussed as well.
The platform shall be implemented as a shared service. This shall provide for a cost-effective solution which can also be made available to  other science fields.
In depositing their data in the repository, scientists can make their results quickly visible and store them reliably on a long-term basis. Consequently, the research efficiency  of the respective institute is better documented. 

The research institutions of the BMELV advocate the goal of the Berlin Declaration and understand the BMELV repository as a contribution to a better visibility and availablity of their research results.

Citation from Berlin Declaration: „Our mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if the information is not made widely and readily available to society. New possibilities of knowledge dissemination not only through the classical form but also and increasingly through the open access paradigm via the Internet have to be supported. We define open access as a comprehensive source of human knowledge and cultural heritage that has been approved by the scientific community.

In order to realize the vision of a global and accessible representation of knowledge, the future Web has to be sustainable, interactive, and transparent. Content and software tools must be openly accessible and compatible.“