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The availability of administrative data and official statistics data for (basic) research becomes increasingly a determinant for the competitiveness of a country's research capabilities. This is particular true for the social sciences including economics as well as health research and could provide an important contribution for evidencebased politics and public administration. In Austria, the greatest challenges are the unclear and uneven legal situation and political resistance against a more open and better structured access to registry and statistical data for science. From an international perspective, the accessibility of administrative data is self-evident and state of the art in many European countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article highlights the development and status quo of repositories in Austria, which have received an important impulse by the project e-Infrastructures Austria. While in the years following the "Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge" (2003), mainly the areas of publications and Green Open Access were dealt with, but recently research data has become increasingly popular, especially in the context of initiatives like the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This upturn is also reflected in the ongoing increase in the number of Austrian repositories listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org). By means of statistical evaluations it was ascertained which types of documents are included in these repositories, which academic disciplines they represent, the extent of their content, which software is used, whether already existing interfaces (such as OAI) are available and which policies are being followed for the respective repositories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Libraries play a fundamental role in society. In order to make library services visible, the Library Index BIX measures the performance of public and academic libraries in Germany. An increasing number of libraries from other countries join the BIX every year. Austrian university libraries make up the largest group of foreign participants. Committed to develop quality management systems, library performance measurement plays an important role at the universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An online survey was made to learn more about the opinion and attitude of the Austrians concerning digital literature. The results are being discussed in this article. They are intended to deliver concrete data for digitizing institutions to be able to evaluate the situation of digitization in Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]