Are we satisfied with the current state of global knowledge preservation? What are the current preservation methods? Who are the actors? Is this system satisfactory? What role do institutional repositories play in this process? What does the future hold for these repositories (taking into account linking efforts, publishing company concerns about revenue declines, widespread dark archiving practices, and so on)? Would new mandates help (or do we simply need to tighten existing mandates so they actually compel authors to do certain things)? And how do versions of record figure into all of this—that is, how do archiving policies (with regard to differences between pre-journal and post-journal versions) affect knowledge accuracy and transfer?

Repositories are a vital tool in modern information management and a key component of preser­vation and long-term availability. They are not well-suited, however, to the current chal­lenges posed by our information-rich society and the multitude of stakeholders involved in the modern scholarly publishing system. Strengthening repositories and standardizing preserva­tion processes are critically important. This challenge will require not only leading multi­ple stakeholder groups but also reforming multiple information systems, architectures, phi­losophies, practices, and more. OSI2016 Workgroup Question Are we satisfied with the current state of global knowledge preservation? What are the current­ preservation methods? Who are the actors? Is this system satisfactory? What role do institu­tional repositories play in this process? What does the future hold for these repositories (taking into account linking efforts, publishing company concerns about revenue declines, wide­spread dark archiving practices, and so on)? Would new mandates help (or do we simply need to tighten existing mandates so they actually compel authors to do certain things)? And how do versions of record figure into all of this—that is, how do archiving poli­cies (with regard to differences between pre-journal and post-journal versions) affect knowledge accurac­y­ and transfer? How can digital preservation advance open scholarship?

[english] The Leibniz Association supports Open Access strategies on organizational and institutional level. Leibniz institutes encourage Open Access publishing ideally and financially. Some of them issue Open Access journals. With the portal for Open Access publications LeibnizOpen (), the Leibniz Association complies with its “WGL Guidelines on open access” in order to allow a free exchange of quality assured research results as defined by the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”. collects freely accessible electronic publications authored by Leibniz researchers and provides a central access point to Open Access publications of the Leibniz Association. Technically, LeibnizOpen is an aggregator of disciplinary repositories mainly run by Leibniz infrastructure organizations that offer searching and archiving of freely available research publications for their respective communities. Content of these repositories is brought together by common technologies and metadata standards. Additionally, activities are carried out to increase the acceptance of Open Access in Leibniz institutes, acquiring content and clarifying legal issues. In order to succeed with this common goal despite the characteristic independence and heterogeneous publication cultures of the Leibniz institutes, a tight cooperation exists between the institutes running LeibnizOpen, the Leibniz Associations’ central office as well as the Open Access Working Group, and Libraries Working Group of the Leibniz Association.[german] Die Leibniz-Gemeinschaft unterstützt Open Access auf strategischer, d.h. Organisationsebene sowie auf Institutsebene. Die Leibniz-Einrichtungen fördern Open Access – ideell und finanziell – als Publikationsweg und geben zahlreiche Open-Access-Zeitschriften heraus. Mit ihrem Portal für Open-Access-Publikationen, LeibnizOpen (), setzt die Leibniz-Gemeinschaft insbesondere ihre „Leitlinien zu Open Access in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft” um, die den freien Austausch qualitätsgeprüfter Forschungsergebnisse im Sinne der Berliner Erklärung über den offenen Zugang zu wissenschaftlichem Wissen zum Ziel haben. LeibnizOpen bündelt die frei verfügbaren Publikationen von Leibniz-Forscherinnen und -Forschern und ist somit das zentrale Verzeichnis für Open-Access-Publikationen aus der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. Technisch gesehen ist es ein Aggregator einer Reihe von Fachrepositorien, die überwiegend von den Infrastruktureinrichtungen der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft betrieben werden und den entsprechenden Fach-Communities die Recherche sowie die Archivierung von frei im Netz verfügbaren Publikationen ermöglichen. Dazu werden die Inhalte dieser Repositorien mittels gemeinsamer technischer und Metadaten-Standards zusammengeführt. Daneben werden flankierend Aktivitäten zur Akzeptanzsteigerung von Open Access in den Leibniz-Instituten, zur Content-Akquise sowie zur Klärung damit verbundender Rechtsfragen betrieben. Um trotz der charakteristisch hohen Eigenständigkeit und äußerst heterogenen Publikationskulturen der Leibniz-Institute das gemeinsame Ziel effizient zu verfolgen, besteht eine enge Abstimmung zwischen den LeibnizOpen betreibenden Einrichtungen, der Geschäftsstelle, dem Arbeitskreis Open Access sowie dem Arbeitskreis Bibliotheken und Informationseinrichtungen der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.