Cultural Change in Jurisprudence

Scientific cultures are an environment characterised by different influences and are therefore a
framework that guides and shapes scientific activity and collaboration between researchers.
and characterises them. For the facet of publishing scientific findings, this results in
effects that counteract efforts to establish open access as a standard. This applies
particularly to legal scholarship and its conventions (cf. Fischer 2021). A lived
open access culture can only be achieved through an actual change in unwritten norms, values, expectations and conventions,
values, expectations and conventions, which in turn requires comprehensive reflection on them.
is a prerequisite. In addition, an open access environment optimised to meet new needs and requirements is necessary for a cultural change.
environment optimised for new needs and requirements is necessary for a cultural change.
This is where the KidRewi project comes in. It is intended for the field of law, focussing
the academic practice of independent legal publication, to promote the reflection on current practice required for a cultural change.
reflection on current practice and accompany the cultural change.
Socio-cultural reservations about original open access publication are to be overcome through
digital technological innovation and the concretisation of needs with regard to an optimised publication
publication infrastructure environment.
The core of the project, together with the OpenRewi network and science-based infrastructure
infrastructure providers, developed prototype solutions and measures that are evaluated and adapted,
and can be directly implemented as revised concepts following the project. The
The implementation of the concepts revised in collaboration with the target group of legal scholars
in cooperation with the target group of legal scholars will specifically address the needs for a responsive open access
independent legal publications and promote a real cultural change.