Open Access Publishing
offered by the Hamburg State and University Library
offered by the Hamburg State and University Library
Guidelines
Profile
Hamburg University Press is the Open Access publication service of the Hamburg State and University Library (SUB Hamburg). It follows the Golden Way of Open Access: all publications are available online for free reading, free downloading and free re-use.
Hamburg University Press is a non-profit institution of the SUB Hamburg (Betrieb gewerblicher Art). The service publishes selected works (usually first editions) by researchers and scholars from the University of Hamburg, other Hamburg universities and universities of applied sciences, and other academic and science-related institutions. The publishing service is a non-profit organization of the SUB Hamburg and supports researchers and scholars with innovative services and up-to-date software for contemporary publishing at science-friendly conditions.
The publications are published under a Creative Commons licence ( CC BY 4.0 or CC-BY-SA 4.0). This licence promotes the dissemination of the works and encourages their subsequent use. In this way, Open Access and Open Science are supported. All books are published in parallel as high-quality print-on-demand editions. The printed books can be ordered via bookshops and the publisher's website.
Hosting of scholarly Diamond Open Access journals is also offered. ‘Diamond’ Open Access refers to Open Access journals and platforms that are free to both authors (without article processing charges (APC)) and readers.
Authors/Editors' Commitment
Authors and editors agree to the publication in Open Access. Authors and editors grant Hamburg University Press the (non-exclusive) right to publish their works worldwide and freely accessible on the internet as well as in other agreed forms (e.g. printed). The online publications are made available under a free licence (Creative Commons). The authors as creators remain in possession of their rights of use and continue to have the right to publish their publication elsewhere, to change it or to exploit it in any other way. Authors and editors assure that their work does not violate the rights of third parties.
Ethical guidelines
Hamburg University Press provides mandatory formal publication criteria that comply with the Committee On Publication Ethics (COPE) ethical guidelines. Publishers, editors, authors and reviewers are informed accordingly and encouraged to take the principles of transparency in scientific publication and the DFG's guidelines for safeguarding good scientific practice into account.
Technical operation
Hamburg University Press is technically realised with the open source software Open Monograph Press (OMP), developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The online shop is implemented with Wordpress (WP), more precisely: the WP plugin Germanized for Woocommerce. The journal hosting is done with the open source software Open Journal Systems (OJS), also by PKP. All applications run on local servers or on virtual machines in the Regional Computer Centre (RRZ) of the University of Hamburg.
Visibility
Hamburg University Press is committed to making the electronic editions of its publications as widely available as possible:
All publications receive a unique identification in the form of a DOI (DOI - Digital Object identifier, provider: Crossref).
The publisher's online publications can be found in national and international library catalogues such as the Hamburg Campus Catalogue, at the German National Library, but also in Worldcat (the world's largest bibliographic database, which includes catalogues from thousands of OCLC member libraries).
Via an online interface (OAI interface), the publishing service offers multipliers the possibility to obtain information about all online publications. The publisher is registered with some of them and can be searched through them. These include in particular OAPEN and DOAB for books or the international platform OpenAIRE. The search engines Google Scholar and BASE - the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine - also list publishers' publications.
Articles from OA journals published by Hamburg University Press can also be registered at article level with DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), the world's central research platform for academic OA journals. From here, the articles are distributed further internationally. They can also be found via subject portals.
Standards are essential for a technical infrastructure that ensures the dissemination and visibility of content in the interest of science. For this reason, Hamburg University Press has successfully supported the journal Aethiopica. International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies in gaining a DINI certificate for Open Access publication services.
The DINI certificate is a renowned seal of quality. It confirms the development of document servers according to international standards and on the basis of a secure technology.
