Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsblibliothek Göttingen

Academic Library · Germany

• https://www.univerlag.uni-goettingen.de
• univerlag@uni-goettingen.de

Göttingen University Press

https://www.univerlag.uni-goettingen.de

Margo Bargheer, Head of Electronic Publishing
Email: bargheer@sub.uni-goettingen.de

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
We publish work from scholars associated with Göttingen University and assist authors and editors to publish their works electronically and in print. Our aim is to offer free access to as many publications as possible. Our aim is to publish reviewed high-quality books and journals that due to their specialised or innovative nature will not easily be accepted by commercial publishers. We expect our authors and editors to comply to high standards of scientific integrity, quality, and ethics.

• Publishing activities began: 2003
• Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
• Open access focus: Central to mission
• Portion of Open Access publications: All
• Publishing Languages: German; English; all languages supported by university-run reviewing processes

Program Organization

• Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
• Advisory/editorial board: Yes
• Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3
• Individual people: 6
• Funding sources: Charge backs/cost sharing; grants; library materials budget; library operating budget; sales revenue; author fees

Publishing Activities

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Educational resources
• Journals
• Monographs

Highlights

Partners

• Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs; individual faculty; graduate students
• Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  Göttingen University Press is an intrinsic part of the university's service portfolio to support researchers in their role as authors and editors. The press runs its own publishing profile and manuscript admission processes and is steered by an editorial board consisting of all faculties' representatives. The university press and the library publishing activities share technical features (all DSpace or OJS-based, PID policy always the same), and staff members collaborate closely.
• Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  Our university's authors are obliged to keep the scientific record remains as complete as possible. Supplementary material such as research data, research software, or extensive digital appendices and audio-visual material should be stored on certified and trusted repositories with DOIs to ensure scientific integrity. We strongly recommend our authors to make use of our specialized repositories on campus. We run joint training and information events to exercise close collaboration across teams.
• Program’s openness to working with external partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g., local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
• Types of publications should other publishers refer to your program: Unfortunately due to tax and procurement rules other publishers can only refer publications with Göttingen origin to us.
• Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

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Policies

Adopted Policies:
COPE guidelines for publication ethics; Singapore Statement of Research Integrity; Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism

Additional Information

Last Year:
As a default for edited volumes and anthologies we issue DOIs now for book chapters.

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Future Plans:
We are currently looking at how we can incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals classification into our publications. With the advent of artificial intelligence in texting such as ChatGPT, our university needs to rethink how research assessment is conducted and the extent to which publishing activities need to reflect the new ethical implications of research production and assessment.

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