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Workgroup Electronic Publishing Niels Fromm

Workgroup Electronic Publishing Niels Fromm. History. Developed the edoc -server of the Humboldt-University Started 1997 among the first Universities in Germany to give its students the option of publishing an electronic version of their Theses or Dissertation

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Workgroup Electronic Publishing Niels Fromm

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  1. Workgroup Electronic Publishing Niels Fromm

  2. History • Developedtheedoc-server oftheHumboldt-University • Started 1997 amongthefirstUniversities in Germany togiveitsstudentstheoptionofpublishing an electronic versionoftheirThesesor Dissertation • Working Group Electronic Publishing was founded1999 asjointendeavourofthe Computing Centreandthe University Library - employeesfromthe Computing Centreandthe Library areworkingtogether • LongtermPreservationandlongtermAvailabilityofthepublisheddocumentsweretopicsfromthestart: wemadethecommitmentthatthepublisheddocuments will beavailablefor 50 years • Focus isthefreeandunrestricted Access to all Documentspublished on theedoc-Server -> Open Access

  3. Electronic Documents • Startedwith Electronic ThesesandDissertations (about 2500) • ExpandedouroffertoeJournals, Series andArticles, digitisedhistoricDocuments (altogetherabout 18000 singledocumentsavailable online) • Every Item uploadedandpublished on our Server hastobe Open-Access in Full-Text • Forevery Item wegenerate an persistentidentifier (URN-System bygermannational Library) • Usagestatisticsforeachdocument:

  4. Current Research Projects • OpenAccess-Statistik(Central calculationofusageStatisticsforDocument-Servers forcomparability) • OpenAccess-Netzwerk(Centralised Services for OA-Repositories, like a searchover all connectedRepositoriesorduplicatechecks) • LuKII(LOCKSS and Kopal Infrastructure and und Interoperability, Development prototype, proofofconceptand via thisprojectwestarted a german LOCKSS-Network and a LOCKSS-Competence-Centre ) • EOD(ebooks on demand: digitalisationofhistoricbooks on demand, link toorder in Library catalog)

  5. Current Research Projects • Laudatio(Project aimstobuild an open accessresearchdatarepository) • Research Data Management Survey at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  6. Electronic ThesesandDissertations • Requirementsfordelivery: • Electronic Version ofthePublication must bedelivered in the PDF-Format withcertainproperties (PDF/A) • Abstract in englishandgermanwith max. 2000 characters in plaintextformat (withoutanyformatting) • FourKeywords in englishandgermanasplaintext • SignPublication-ContracttogiveustherighttopublishyourTheses • FourcopiesofyourThesesor Dissertation on Paper (canbeprintedforyoubythe Library for a reasonableprice) • Electronic Publishing is quick, simple andaffordable

  7. edoc.hu-berlin.de

  8. edoc.hu-berlin.de • Repository Ranking (http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/world) • Europe: 24 • Germany: 5 • Electronic Publication on theedoc-Server ensures high visibility!

  9. Questions? fromm@ub.hu-berlin.de

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