The objective of the Distributed Network for Publishing Services project is the cooperative development of consulting and services for scientific publishing, as well as the expansion of interlinked open access publishing infrastructures based on distributed competencies of the BUA partners. With the realization of the network, transparency for publication processes will be established, legal certainty will be created, the visibility of quality-assured publications will be increased, and the bibliometric classification of published research results will be made possible. Dr. Andreas Brandtner (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Andreas Degkwitz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Jürgen Christof (Technische Universität Berlin), and Ursula Flitner (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) are leading the project.