ZHdK offers Open Access and the related publishing services of the Media and Information Centre (MIZ). The offer includes an institutional publication repository ZOPAR (ZHdK Open Publications in the Arts Repository) and a Gold Open Access funding line as part of a publication budget managed by the MIZ.
ZOPAR is a publication repository that meets common standards such as retrievability, long-term archiving and interoperability with other research systems. ZHdK uses ZOPAR to implement its Open Access policy and provide access to ZHdK publications in Open Access. ZHdK specifies the legal conditions relating to the use of ZOPAR in the “General Terms and Conditions for Using ZOPAR”.
The Gold Open Access funding line is used to finance publications that were initially published by external publishers in accordance with the Gold Road standards. The criteria for coverage of publishing fees via the publication budget are defined in the funding guidelines.
With these services and its Open Access policy, ZHdK commits itself to promoting Open Access and complies with the Swiss National Strategy on Open Access.