Library Publishing Directory

ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences

Academic Library · Germany

Open Science/ PUBLISSO

https://www.publisso.de

Ursula Arning, Head of the Publishing Department
Email: arning@zbmed.de

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
The ZB MED publication portal PUBLISSO is an open access publishing platforms for scientists and researchers working in the field of life sciences, enabling them to publish their research findings and data in different types of publications.
  • Publishing activities began: 2003
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 3 - Established
  • 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: Yes
  • Total staffing in Full Time Equivalents (FTE): 6
  • Individual people: 8
  • Students: Undergraduate student(s)
  • Funding sources: Author fees, Charge backs/cost sharing

Publishing Activities

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


Journal Publishing:
  • Journals published: 15
  • Contracted by external groups: 15
  • Peer-reviewed: 15
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 10
  • Currently inactive or archived: 3
Monograph/Book Publishing:
  • Monographs published: 3
  • Peer-reviewed: 3
  • Required fee to enable Open Access: 3

Highlights

Top Publications:
  • Itching and Burning Symptoms in the Female Urogenital Tract. In: Urogenital Infections and Inflammations. (living handbook)
  • Grundlagen der Kommunikation. In: Online Lehrbuch der Medizinischen Psychologie und Medizinischen Soziologie (living textbook).
  • Nerve Injury: Classification, Clinical Assessment, Investigation, and Management. In: Living Textbook of Hand Surgery (living textbook).
  • List of MAK and BAT Values 2023. In: The MAK-Collection for Occupational Health and Safety (journal).
  • The Scholar Role in the National Competence Based Catalogues of Learning Objectives for Undergraduate Medical Education (NKLM) Compared to Other International Frameworks. In: Ger Med Sci. (journal).
Disciplinary Specialties:
  • Medicine
  • Health
  • Nutrition
  • Life sciences
  • Agriculture

Partners

  • Internal partners:  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 but only if in our disciplinary specialty
  • Part of a consortium which provides support for publishing? (e.g. platform, funding): No

Technologies & Services

Media Formats:
  • audio
  • data
  • images
  • multimedia
  • text
  • video
Software & Platforms:
  • Islandora
  • locally developed software
Additional Services:
  • assistance with journal application for DOAJ)
  • Indexing services (e.g.
  • Compiling indexes and/or tables of contents
  • author advisory - other
  • contract/license preparation
  • DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
  • hosting of supplemental content
  • ISBN registry
  • ISSN registry
  • marketing
  • peer review management
  • print-on-demand
  • training
Digital Preservation Strategy:
  • In-house
  • Rosetta

Policies

  • Indexing and coverage by databases: https://www.egms.de/static/en/policy.htm
  • Authors' Rights: https://www.egms.de/static/en/terms.htm
  • Author's Contract: https://www.egms.de/static/en/terms.htm#sci
  • Competing Interests: https://www.publisso.de/en/publishing/books/books-policy
  • Start a new journal: https://www.egms.de/static/en/newjournal.htm
  • Human and Animal Rights: https://www.publisso.de/en/publishing/books/books-policy#c5100
  • GMS German Medical Science Open Access Charta; Open Access Policy: https://www.zbmed.de/en/about/policies/open-access-policy
  • Peer Review: https://www.publisso.de/en/publishing/books/books-policy#c5100
  • Preservation Policy: https://www.zbmed.de/en/about/policies/preservation-policy
  • Privacy Policy ; Disclaimer: https://www.publisso.de/en/privacy-policy
  • policy: https://www.egms.de/static/en/policy.htm

    • Other Policies:
    Research Data Policy

    Links to Policies:
    https://www.zbmed.de/en/about/policies/research-data-policy

    Adopted Policies:
    Good Research Practice: https://www.zbmed.de/en/about/policies/good-research-practice

    Additional Information

    Last Year:
    Currently, we are expanding our Publication Platform in two ways: Firstly, we are including not only Life Science, but Political Science publications with the project "OAPEnz – Open Access Publications of Encyclopedic Handbooks." Moreover, it will be possible to publish Living Encyclopedias which can be updated regularly. Secondly, we have started developing an inline commenting and discussion feature with the German National Academy of Sciences. The scientific community will be able to comment on publications, and thus engage with authors and other readers. At the same time, authors will be able to reference these comments in updated versions of their publications, underlining transparency and collective exchange in the process. The aim for this project is to develop a “scientific Wikipedia.” Our platform is using the Content Management System, Drupal.