Executive Summary
Introduction
Agricultural Research
Information and Communication Technology
e-Infrastructures Area
Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Climate Research
Climate science
Current status of climate modelling research infrastructure
Current status of the research infrastructure of observationalclimate science programmes in Germany
German Weather Service(DWD, Deutscher Wetterdienst), Offenbach
The German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD, Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum), Oberpfaffenhofen
World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE, Biogeochemistry, Circulation, and Life of Present and Past Oceans), Bremen
National Oceanographic Data Centre for Germany(NODC), Hamburg
National Bathymetric Data Centre, Rostock
World Data Center for Climate (WDCC)
Results of a survey concerning climate research practices in six German institutions
Current status of Open Access in climate research literature
Current status of Open Access in climate research data
Challenges for Open Access e-Infrastructures in climateresearch
Future directions and summary
Implications for OpenAIRE
List of figures
List of tables
Bibliography
Appendices
Health Sciences
Subject-Specific Requirements for Open Access Infrastructure –Attempt at a Synthesis