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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.
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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.
