Research Area
Sociology
Research Institution
Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Academic Position
University Professor
Important grants and merits
Membership in DFG-Research Group "Horizontal Europeanization" (2012-2015)
Scientists and students at financially weak universities have been increasingly excluded from their international scientific communities, because their institutions cannot provide them to a sufficient extent with access to scientific journals. Open Access is part of a solution, where societal and public interests rank higher than the profit interests of a small group of editors.