Gutenberg Open Science
Gutenberg Open Science is the open access repository of Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU). Staff and students of Mainz University of Applied Sciences have the opportunity to publish free of charge in the repository.
By publishing in the repository, your research becomes globally visible and is continuously available to the scientific community without access restrictions.
On Gutenberg Open Science, your publications are available on a long-term basis. They are assigned a permanent address (DOI) and transmitted to the German National Library for central indexing. You also have the option of putting your publications under a CC license and thereby clearly regulating the rights of subsequent use.
You can publish the following publication types:
- Dissertation
- Post-doctoral dissertation (Habilitation)
- Journal article
- Book contribution
- Monography
- Collection
- Source edition
- Working paper
- Other type of publication or document
Exceptionally good master's theses by students can also be published. In this case, the responsible professor must send an informal request in writing to publikationen (at) hs-mainz.de
Primary or secondary publication?
You can use Gutenberg Open Science for both primary and secondary publication. If your publication has already been published by a publisher or elsewhere, it is often possible to make the work immediately available on Gutenberg Open Science as well. A prerequisite for this is that you have published in open access with the publishing house. But you can also use Gutenberg Open Science in many other cases by exercising your right of secondary publication. Read about these topics and about licenses in the university's Tips for authors (only available in German).
How to publish your publications
Complete this form and send it along with the publication as a PDF file to publikationen (at) hs-mainz.de. The library will upload your publication. Once this is done, you will receive an email from us with two deposit licenses. The deposit license must be signed and returned to publikationen (at) hs-mainz.de as a scan (Read here about when you need the extended deposit license).
The publication will not be published until the license is signed.
For secondary publication of a publication with multiple authors (such as a journal article), the signature of the submitting author is sufficient. For primary publications, all authors involved in the work must sign the deposit license. This also applies to collections.
