According to the doctoral regulations and the implementation rules, the publication of a dissertation is part of the doctorate degree.
After passing the oral exam, the dissertation must be available to the scientific public within one year.
The HCU Library supports you by providing the publication server repOS and advising you on publishing. With repOS you have the opportunity to make your dissertation electronically available to others free of charge.
What are the advantages of electronic publishing?
> Uncomplicated and free publication of your dissertation
> Rapid dissemination of your work and simplified access
> Support for the idea of open access - in other words, free access to scientific and scholarly information.
> Indexing of your work through library catalogues, search engines and databases
> Publication with a permanently citable internet address (DOI and/or URN)
What do I have to do?
1.
Obtain the confirmation of compliance of the evaluated dissertation with the ready-for-publication version on the print approval routing slip (available from the Doctoral Examination Board Office) and submit it to the office of the doctoral committee office. Email a copy of it to the library.
2.
Download the contract for the publication of a digital dissertation. Please read the publication contract carefully and send it signed by e-mail to the library. You will receive a signed copy back from us also by e-mail.
3.
Upload your dissertation with the corresponding metadata to the repOS publication server.
The library
> checks the metadata for correctness
> activates the document on the server after receiving the contract for the publication of a digital dissertation.
> issues a publication certificate and sends it to the doctoral committee
> sends it to Doctoral Examination Board Office. The publication certificate is the basis for issuing the doctoral certificate.
More information
> Handout for Data Entry in repOS
Contact
Davide Montanaro, Alexandra Jobmann
Tel.: +49 (0) 40 42827-4368
e-mail: digitaledienste(at)hcu-hamburg.de
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