Readers might wish to read more on this issue in English at Peter Suber's weblog
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/11/more-on-chance-for-oa-to-german.html http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/12/more-on-oa-for-german-scholarship.html There are links to German publications. Feel free to ask me personally if there are any questions open. Klaus Graf