Library Publishing Directory

University of Hamburg

Hamburg State and University Library Carl von Ossietzky

Academic Library · Germany

Open Access Publication Services / Hamburg University Press

https://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de

Isabella Meinecke, Head of the Department of Open Access Publication Services / Hamburg University Press
Phone: +49 40 428 387 146
Email: isabella.meinecke@sub.uni-hamburg.de

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Hamburg University Press (Hamburg UP) is the open access publication service of the Hamburg State and University Library (SUB Hamburg). The service publishes hybrid books in gold open access and offers digital hosting services for scholarly diamond open access journals. Both publishing activities rely on open source software. Hamburg UP provides researchers and scholars with professional up-to-date services in order to promote institutional publishing according to open science. We support researchers who strive for publishing on their own responsibility (scholar-led). Formal quality standards form the basis for visibility and sustainability. All publications are published either under the CC-BY or the CC-BY-SA license. The service promotes scholarly publishing through international community engagement, network activities, and participation in (inter)national projects. A repository for initial and secondary open access publications (Repositorium.Hamburg) complements the service.
  • Publishing activities began: 2002
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
    Long-time engagement in (inter)national projects and network activities, development of standards, enhancement of institutional publication opportunities for researchers, and eager to provide scalable and sustainable professional institutional publication services.
  • Open access focus: Central to mission
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: German; English; open to other languages

Program Organization

  • Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 3.25
  • Individual people: 5
  • Students: Graduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Author fees, Grants, Library materials budget, Library operating budget, Sales revenue

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Grey literature
  • Journals
  • Monographs
  • Multimedia


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 10
  • Campus-based faculty-created: 5
  • Campus-based student-created: 2
  • Contracted by external groups: 3
  • Peer-reviewed: 10
  • Currently inactive or archived: 5
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 3
  • Peer-reviewed: 3
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 3

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • IJRVET. International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (journal)
  • kommunikation@gesellschaft (journal)
  • Towards Sustainable Transport and Mobility (anthology)
  • Journal of Language and Aging Research (JLAR) (journal)
  • Dinámicas de transferencia y transformación cultural en las literaturas hispánicas (anthology)
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • History
  • Social sciences
  • Linguistics and literary studies
  • Law
  • Archival science

Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: No
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: No
  • 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: Hosting of diamond open access journals, hybrid monographs, and anthologies in gold open access preferably for the Arts and Humanities; authors used to publish with PKP software (OJS, OMP, ...)
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
  • Open Monograph Press (OMP)
Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • cataloging
  • contract/license preparation
  • copyediting
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • graphic design (print or web)
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • image services
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • metadata
  • outreach
  • print-on-demand
  • training
  • typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • Other (please specify)
  • PKP Open Preservation Network
  • Keepers Registry
  • In-house

Policies

  • Guidelines: https://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/oa-pub/guidelines
  • Rights: https://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/oa-pub/rights
  • Open Access, Open Science: https://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/oa-pub/statements-oa-os
  • Quality Management: https://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/oa-pub/quality-management
  • Quality Management: Sustainability: https://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/oa-pub/quality-management
  • Privacy Statement: https://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/oa-pub/about/privacy

    • Adopted Policies:
    Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Plan S , OpenAIRE; Working group of German-speaking University Presses (Quality Standards for Open Access Books, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7743833); Extensible Quality Standard in Institutional Publishing (EQSIP) V2.0 for Diamond Open Access (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10726732); DINI - German Initiative for Network Information (DINI Certificate for Open Access Publication Services 2022, https://doi.org/10.18452/24679)

    Additional Information

    Last Year:
    Focus on diamond open access.
    Future Plans:
    Evaluate expansion of diamond open access publication services. Continue harmonizing standards and policies for OA books and journals; exploring xml publishing. Continue engagement for diamond open access, especially in EU project CRAFT-OA (https://craft-oa.eu).
    Other Information:
    Our library offers slightly different publication models for books and for journals. While both models focus on formal quality assurance, book publishing generally follows the golden way of open access and supports hybrid publishing according to communities' needs. Journals are implemented through diamond open access hosting for peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Journal hosting is aligned with quality criteria of relevant organizations as well as other professional standards and strives for open science compliance. The different models also entail differences in the guidelines. Nevertheless, both are research-friendly, scholar-led, and and support open access.