Library Publishing Directory
TU Wien
TU Wien Bibliothek
Academic Library · AustriaPublication Services
https://www.tuwien.at/en/library/publishing/publishing-books-and-journalsBeate Guba, Library Director
Email: beate.guba@tuwien.ac.at
Program Overview
Mission/Objectives:TU Wien Bibliothek has established Austria's first fully open access publisher with TU Wien Academic Press (https://www.tuwien.at/academicpress/en). TU Wien Academic Press publishes high-quality open access monographs, collected volumes, and conference proceedings from key research areas of TU Vienna, including subjects such as architecture, urban and spatial planning, climate and energy, transportation, computer science, artificial intelligence, as well as works related to Vienna and the region of Central and Southeastern Europe. High scientific integrity and high academic quality are the central focus at TU Wien Academic Press. All manuscripts, from submission through publication, go through a comprehensive quality assurance process, including peer review. Optionally, books are additionally also published as print books. TU Wien Bibliothek also offers alternative open access publication opportunities for journals with the Janeway hosting platform. The platform reposiTUm supports the open access strategy of TU Wien and ensures the best possible dissemination of scientific publications of TU Wien members. The metadata is curated by the library and delivered to OpenAIRE and BASE.
- Publishing activities began: 2015
- Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
- Open access focus: Central to mission
- Portion of Open Access publications: All
- Publishing Languages: English, German
Program Organization
- Organization of publishing services: Centralized library publishing unit/department
- Advisory/editorial board: No
- Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 5
- Individual people: 5
Publishing Activities
- Conference papers or proceedings
- Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
- Journals
- Monographs
Journal Publishing:
- Journals published: 2
- Campus-based faculty-created: 2
- Peer-reviewed: 2
Monograph/Book Publishing:
- Monographs published: 3
- Peer-reviewed: 3
Highlights
Top Publications:
- Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (conference series published with IEEE )
- Trust in Robots (monograph of the PhD program “Trust Robots” at TU Wien)
- Vages Terrain (collected volume)
Disciplinary Specialties:
- Architecture: urban and spatial planning
- Energy and environment
- Materials and matter
- Computational science and engineering
- Works related to Vienna and the region of Central and Southeastern Europe
Partners
- Internal partners: Campus departments or programs; Individual faculty
- 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)
- Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No
Technologies & Services
Media Formats:
- data
- images
- text
Software & Platforms:
- DSpace
- Janeway
- WordPress
Additional Services:
- assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
- Indexing services (e.g.
- author advisory - other
- author advisory - copyright
- DOI distribution
- analytics
- cataloging
- contract/license preparation
- copyediting
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- ISBN registry
- ISSN registry
- marketing
- metadata
- outreach
- peer review management
- training
- typesetting
Digital Preservation Strategy:
- Portico
Policies
Adopted Policies:
ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023: Standard Terminology for Peer Review