Positions on creating an Open Access publication market which is scholarly adequate : Positions of the Ad Hoc Working Group Open Access Gold in the priority initiative 'Digital Information' of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany

This position paper is the working group's first result. It is directed at scholarly institutions dealing with aspects of Open Access publishing, and bundles and evaluates the requirements for contracts based on the publication cost model. It also raises the question of linking subscriptions and Open Access and gives the institutions targeted ideas for formulating their Open Access strategies. It aims to create transparency and sustainability in the field of scholarly publishing in the interests of the sciences and to avoid perpetuating mistakes of the past