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Boolean Operators AND, OR, NOT

When you use the Simple Search, all terms are combined by AND automatically. For a more tightly focused search you may use the Boolean Operators to combine different search terms.

AND: The document has to contain all search terms.

OR: The document has to contain one of the search terms. This function broadens your search and is recommended, when there are different terms for the same meaning.

article OR paper

NOT: This function works excluding and might be useful to reduce a large result list: Documents, which contain the one term, may not contain the other.

article NOT paper
The Boolean Operators work for the Advanced Search as well. You may use them to combine different search terms within one search field. For example, to search for documents of the author "Doe" in the years 2002 or 2003, use the query:
Author: Doe
Year: 2002 OR 2003

Wildcards

In the field 'Search:', you may use the symbols '*' and '?' as wildcards. Use them in place of a character or characters that are unknown or that may differ. You cannot use them in front of a word or search string.

Example 1: chemi* finds chemical but also chemistry or chemist.
Example 2: licen?e finds licence and license.

You may use double quotes (") to search for phrases.

Contact persons
General questions to OPUS:
Library

Würzburger Straße 45

63743 Aschaffenburg

Tel: 06021/4206-690

opus@th-ab.de


Questions about the secondary publication:
Dr.-Ing. Tilo Gockel

Deputy Head of ZeWiS

ICO Obernburg

Glanzstoffstraße 1, Gebäude Wa 07

63784 Obernburg

Tel: 06022-813 629, 06021-4206 914

tilo.gockel@th-ab.de

Which documenttyp will be published?

Working paper
The document type working paper refers to a preliminary scientific or technical paper that appears in the series of an institution (also: research paper, research memorandum, discussion paper). institution (also: research paper, research memorandum, discussion paper).
Report
The document type Report contains textual material that cannot be assigned to any other category, e.g. reports, external research reports, internal reports, communications, statistical reports, final project reports, technical documentation and instructions.
Book
The document type Book (monograph) is intended for classic monographic works.
Doctoral Thesis
The document type Thesis refers to an academic work for the award of a doctoral degree.
Conference Object
The Conference Object document type includes all types of documents associated with a conference, including conference papers, conference reports, conference lectures, contributions to conference proceedings, conference papers, abstracts, volumes of conference papers.
Patent
The patent document type contains documents that are subject to patent protection, an industrial property right for an invention granted by a public authority.
Preprint
The preprint document type includes preliminary scientific or technical papers that are not published in an institutional series, but are intended for publication in a scientific journal or as part of a book.
Review
The document type Review is a review of a book or article or a summary of the work that does not originate from the author.
Other
The Other document type is intended for everything for which none of the existing document types fit.
Part of a Book
The document type Part of a book (chapter) represents documents that were created as part of a monographic work, such as chapters or contributions in anthologies.
Article
The document type (scientific) article contains documents that have been published as an article, editorial, index, table of contents or editorial section in a scientific journal or scientific periodical (postprint). editorial section in a scientific journal or scientific periodical (postprint).

The description of the document types was largely taken from the OPUS documentation.
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 catalouges 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 two possibilities: you can correct them if necessary or simply safe it directly.

Note:
In oder to publish your work cookies have to be enabled in your web browser.
What happens after I have entered my data?

The library staff will check this data and then activate it. If any details are missing or if you have any queries, you will receive a message.
Which files can be uploaded to OPUS?

Files can be uploaded in the following formats: Text documents: PDF, TXT, HTML, HTM
Graphic formats: BMP , JPG/JPEG, PNG, TIF/TIFF, GIF

Files up to 250 MB are accepted for uploading, larger files should be compressed.
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.

What is the embargo date?

Date specification for documents whose files are not to be released until a certain date.

If you want to publish full texts, you must confirm that you are the rights holder of the uploaded document.
By ticking the button, you confirm the following facts: The authorship is the sole owner of all rights to the uploaded document.
The publication of the document and the third-party text and/or images it contains does not infringe any third-party rights. rights of third parties. The rights holders assure that in cases of doubt or if alleged or actual legal obstacles arise in this regard, he/she will inform the university library. Aschaffenburg University Library immediately in case of doubt or if any legal obstacles arise.
The TH Library Aschaffenburg, the German National Library and the relevant special collection libraries are permitted to store the document and the attached metadata and to make metadata and to make it publicly accessible to data networks and, if necessary, to convert it into other data formats.

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/).

Falls Sie „keine Lizenz“ auswählen, gilt ausschließlich das deutsche Urheberrecht.


In most cases this is no problem. In any case, please check whether your contract permits publication on our document server or whether the statutory secondary publication right § 38 para. 4 and § 40 UrhG allows publication! To do that you can use the SHERPA/ROMEO list.

Check whether you have the option of adding a full text to the proof of publication via the statutory secondary publication right pursuant to Section 38 (4) and Section 40 UrhG or your contract publisher.

For a title notification, please do NOT select a contract.
A publication contract must be concluded for the first publication of full texts of the document types book and dissertation. You can currently find this under: Internal\Administration-Head of unit\Internal communication\Services and teams\Library\Model forms\Publication contractTH.
Your document can only be published (i.e. activated in OPUS) once the signed contract has been received by the University Library.
Can documents that have been published in the repository be altered or deleted?

Generally, the possibility of changing or deleting documents is not provided. This is the only way to guarantee the authenticity of the documents, which are thus comparable to printed publications.
Documentation

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