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About GOAL
Our database is online and growing. Visit us at: GOAL :: Home (zhaw.ch) and find Swiss practice-oriented journals and their Open Access policies.
NEW: GOAL keeps growing and you can now also find policies for book contributions (book chapters, conference proceedings): Policy – Book contribution
Visit also our Zenodo community to find our Green Open Access policy templates in German, French and English as well as further helpful materials.
GOAL was a swissuniversities co-funded project that had as goal to unlock the potential of Green Open Access among Swiss professional and scholarly journals. It ran between 2022 and 2024.
Since July 2025 and until January 2027 we run GOAL-Hub, a spin-off to keep bringing forward sustainable Open Access.
By Green Open Access we mean a Secondary publication of an article from a journal that is made available; that is, the work has been published by the publisher first.
The content is free to read and ideally free to use (eg under a Creative Commons Licences) online on a Disciplinary or Institutional Repository
An Institutional Repository is an online archive operated by a non-commercial Organization (eg Academic Institutions), excluding Social Networks such as Researchgate.
Because Green Open Access is a sustainable way to promote Open Access
The ZHAW was the leading institution, the HSLU, ZHdK, FHNW and PH Fribourg were the partner institutions. A Sounding Board with further twelve Swiss Higher Education Institutions provided advice to the GOAL Team.
Team
Project Members
The team members who work together in the GOAL project come from different institutions: ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and University of Teacher Education Fribourg (HEP | PH FR).
Sounding Board
GOAL intends to bring together as many Swiss universities of applied sciences and of teachers’ education as possible. The Sounding Board is the place where Open Access specialists and/or other representatives from these institutions such as university managers or administrators can come into close contact with GOAL.
Project GOAL
Information & Contact
For further information on Open Access, please visit the link and glossary page. If you have any kind of questions regarding the project, please do not hesitate to send us your question by our contact form. If you want to contact a concrete member of our project, you can find our details on the project members page.
