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“Hot Topic: Open Access in the German National Library of Medicine“

Dr. Ursula Arning – ZB MED Information Centre for Life Sciences

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ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences

u German National Library of Medicine, health care, nutritional, environmental and agricultural sciences

u Service centre for research in the life sciences– advisory services– publication services– research support– application-oriented research

u publishing portal PUBLISSO (https://publisso.de/en)

u search portal LIVIVO (https://livivo.de/en)

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Open access advisory services at ZB MED

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u Advice on open access publishing, research data management anddigital preservation– FAQs: http://www.publisso.de/en/advice/publishing-advice-faqs/

– tutorials: http://www.publisso.de/en/advice/tutorials/

– workshops, webinars, personal consultations

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Open access publishing services at ZB MED

u Open access publishing platform for life sciences: PUBLISSO

u various types of publications:– journals and journal articles– conference proceedings– books or book chapters– research data

u infrastructure for open access gold and green (repository)

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Gold open access services at ZB MED

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- enhanced publication (images, videos, audio files or other multimedia content can be embedded)

- peer review by editorial board (cooperation with medical societies which are responsible for the peer review process)

- versioning- assignment of DOIs to each chapter,

article, abstract, research data- books: each chapter is published

separately as soon as peer review is finished

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Green open access services at ZB MED

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Repository for Life Sciences- Publication types:

- postprints (green OA)- monographs- grey literature- dissertations- videos- research data

https://repository.publisso.de/resource

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To discuss: It has always been the task of research libraries to facilitate the access to information

u Is providing publishing services a goal for academic libraries?u Should each library provide its own publication infrastructure?u What are the advantages/disadvantages of these kind of

challenges?u Does publishing in libraries contribute to the task of facilitating the

access to information?

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Feel free to contact me for more information

Dr. Ursula ArningHead of Open Access Publishing – Digital Preservation – Research Data ManagementZB MED – Information Centre for Life SciencesGleueler Straße 6050931 Cologne, Germany

arning@zbmed.de+49 (0) 221 478-5603

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