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Berlin University of Applied Sciences

Campus library

Cb-oa@bht-berlin.de

+49(0)30 4504 -2097 – Ina Dubberke

+49(0)30 4504 -2197 – Yvonne Zuck

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How do I publish my work here?

Please click on the publication link on the start page.
First you are requested to choose a document type. Right beneath that you can upload your document files. Having done so you may click on "send". What follows now is the actual form. You have to fill in data about your publication here (so called metadata), which is used to describe your work in cataloges and other bibliographic directories. Describe the document you want to upload using the categories and fields on the publication form. Depending on the document type, some of these fields are mandatory and therefore have to be filled in. Please describe your document as clear as possible. Mandatory fields are for example:

• the document type (must be choosen from a list)
• the title of your publication and the language of the title
• the abstract of the document
• the publication date of your document (normally the day you publish it online)
• the language of the document (must be choosen from a list)
• the licence, under which you want to publish your document (must be choosen from a list)

If you are unsure what to fill in certain form fields, you can point the cursor on a field and an explaining help text will be shown.
After you have finished the form, all data will be displayed once again for a check-up and you then have three possibilities: you can correct them if necessary, add your document to a collection or simply safe it directly.

Note:
In oder to publish your work cookies have to be enabled in your web browser.

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What's metadata?

Metadata can be defined as

• data describing one or more resources or as
• data associated with an object and describing it

Basically metadata is describing documents, objects or services and contains information about their content, structure or form. More abstractly metadata is a description of data or "data about data". Bibliographic data sets and catalog entries in library catalogs can be seen as a kind of metadata.

This repository is using metadata in the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (short Dublin Core (DC)) which has fifteen basic elements. Dublin Core is the result of international efforts to reach a collective consensus in describing electronic objects (in the broadest sense). The Library of Congress (LoC), the Online Cataloging Library Center (OCLC) and several national libraries are dealing with Dublin Core in many projects and are close to introduce the system respectively.

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What's to regard if I plan to publish my work by a professional publisher or have done that already?

In most cases this is no problem. Please ensure in any case, if your publisher allows a parallel publication! To do that you can use the Open Policy Finder.

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What about licenses for my publication?

Authors can choose which terms of use must be regarded for their publication. These terms are defined in a license. This repository supports different licenses, from which you can choose one (i.e. Creative Commons Licenses/).

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Policies

The guidelines for publishing on the OPUS publication server at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences describe and explain the OPUS publication server and how it works.

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Documentation

This document server is based on the repository software OPUS4 OPUS is documented here: https://www.opus-repository.org/.

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Imprint

Berlin University of Applied Sciences

Campus library

Cb-oa@bht-berlin.de

+49(0)30 4504 -2507

+49(0)30 4504 -2097 – Ina Dubberke

+49(0)30 4504 -2197 – Yvonne Zuck

Berlin University of Applied Sciences is a corporation under public law.

It is legally represented by President Dr. Julia Neuhaus.

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