Library Publishing Directory

University of Konstanz

Communication, Information, Media Centre (KIM)

Academic Library · Germany

Team Open Science

https://www.kim.uni-konstanz.de/en/openscience/

Martina Benz, Open Access Officer
Phone: +49 7531 88-4245
Email: openscience@uni-konstanz.de

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The Communication, Information, Media Centre (KIM) operates the Konstanz Online Publication System (KOPS). As a document server, it offers members of the University of Konstanz the ability to post documents on the internet open access and functions as a university bibliography listing all publications of the University from 2008 on. KIM also offers Open Journal Systems (OJS) hosting for researchers of the University of Konstanz to run their own open access journals.
  • Publishing activities began: 2008
  • 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: Services distributed across library units/departments
  • Advisory/editorial board: No
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 1.5
  • Individual people: 5
  • Funding sources: Library materials budget; Library operating budget

Publishing Activities

  • Conference papers or proceedings
  • Datasets
  • Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
  • Monographs
  • Posters


Partners

  • Internal partners:  Campus departments or programs, Individual faculty, Graduate students
  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
  • 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): Yes

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • data
  • text
Software & Platforms:
  • DSpace
  • locally developed software
  • Open Journal Systems (OJS)
Additional Services:
  • author advisory - other
  • author advisory - copyright
  • DOI distribution
  • analytics
  • cataloging
  • dataset management
  • digitization
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • metadata
  • training

Policies

  • Open Science Policy: https://www.kim.uni-konstanz.de/en/openscience/open-science-policy/

    • Other Policies:
    Open Science Policy

    Links to Policies:
    https://www.kim.uni-konstanz.de/en/openscience/open-science-policy/

    Adopted Policies:
    Berlin Declaration: https://openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Declaration