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OPUS Geisenheim - General, benefits and advantages
 OPUS is the online publication service of the Hochschule Geisenheim University. This service enables doctoral students at Hochschule Geisenheim University to publish the full texts of their doctoral theses on the Internet under Open Access conditions.

Open Access means: free, public and unrestricted access to scientific work that has been created/promoted with public funds.
With the OPUS publication, doctoral candidates can fulfil their publication obligation quickly and cost-effectively.
The server is maintained by the Hochschule Geisenheim University and technically by KOBV (Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg).
Documents in OPUS Geisenheim
Dissertations are accepted which have been written in connection with an activity at Hochschule Geisenheim University. Types of documents included in the dissertation can be scientific publications such as books, essays, preprints, publication series or conference papers.

At Hochschule Geisenheim University, the doctoral regulations permit the fulfilment of the publication obligation by submitting an electronic version of the dissertation in PDF format (see also Dissertations - Submission - Confirmation).
Authors / Editors in OPUS Geisenheim
All doctoral students at Hochschule Geisenheim University can publish the full texts of their dissertations in OPUS Geisenheim.
With OPUS, doctoral candidates can fulfil the publication obligation imposed on them by the doctoral regulations.
Hints for searching

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.

Citation of publications from OPUS Geisenheim / URN
Publications in OPUS are in principle equivalent to conventional publications and can therefore be quoted. Electronic publications should be cited according to ISO 690-2. Further information on this topic can be found on the science server of Saarland University Scidok and under project "Digital Dissertations on the Internet".
In accordance with ISO 690-2, electronic publications should be cited as follows, whereby the date is to be understood as the last call to the source by the citing party:
  • Example 1 (dissertations):
  • Sample man, Klaus: Sample man dissertation. - Geisenheim, Univ., Diss., 2014 - [online].
    URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-XXXXX [date]
  • Example 2 (other publications):
  • Mustermann, Klaus: Mustermann text. - Geisenheim : University of Geisenheim, 2014 - [online].
    URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-XXXXX [date]
  • Example 3 (Second publication):
  • Authors: Title. Journal title (year) Volume (issue), pages.
    DOI of the first publication or URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-XXXXX[DateDissertation im Internet”.

URN (Uniform Resource Name)
A URN is assigned for all documents.
The purpose of the URN is to keep your document stable, identifiable and searchable. The URL describes the (physical) storage location of the resource. The URN, on the other hand, does not denote the location where the file is stored, but an entry in the URN resolver of the German National Library, in which the URN and its (current) URL are stored. Advantage: The URN remains valid, even if the physical location of a resource changes (e.g. server change).

Our recommendation: Always quote the URN where you quote your work, not the URL.

Unfortunately, URNs cannot currently be accessed directly using web browsers. Rather, they must first be translated into URLs. This task is performed by the Resolving Service of the German National Library: http://nbn-resolving.de. The URN must be "packaged" as a URL so that the WWW browser can send it to the intermediate resolver. In order to be able to access the document, the name of the resolver http://nbn-resolving.de/ must precede the URN. Example:
URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-27610
Input: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-27610

DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
Similar to the URN, the DOI is a permanent identifier used for citation and linking of electronic objects. The URN is assigned for all publications.
If you would like to have a DOI assigned for your publication in OPUS Geisenheim in addition to the URN, please contact our OPUS Geisenheim contact at the doctoral office: promotionsbuero@hs-gm.de or opus[at]hs-gm.de

See also: Instructions and assistance regarding the citation of electronic sources.
I have some more questions - whom shall I contact?
For general questions about electronic publishing, please contact us:
OPUS team
promotionsbuero@hs-gm.de

Postal address:
Hochschule GEISENHEIM University
Doctoral Office and Graduate School
Von-Lade-Str. 1, 65366 Geisenheim
Germany (German)
General information on the publication form
In the publication form, describe the document you want to include in OPUS according to the categories provided. Fields marked with * are mandatory. Otherwise, please provide as much information as possible.
Types of documents
Dissertation [Doctoral Thesis]
denotes a dissertation for the award of a doctorate.

In the case of cumulative dissertations, the following document types may also be relevant:

Article in a professional journal [Article]
contains documents that have been published as articles, editorials, indexes, tables of contents or editorial parts in a scientific journal or periodical (postprint).

Article in a conference volume [Conference Object]
contains all types of documents associated with a conference. (Conference papers, conference reports, conference lectures, contributions to conference proceedings, conference contributions, abstracts, volumes of conference contributions, posters of conferences).

Article in a compilation [Part of a Book]
Documents created within the framework of a monographic work, e.g. chapters or essays.

Book (monograph) [Book]
classical monographic works.

Movie / Video [Moving Image]
A series of visual representations that convey the impression of movement when shown one after the other. Examples are animations, films, television programs, videos, or the visual representation of a simulation.

Research report / Report [report]
contains textual material that cannot be assigned elsewhere, such as reports, external research reports, internal reports, notifications, statistical reports, project completion reports, technical documentation, and instructions.

Journal (complete journal issue) [Issue]
stands for the magazine in the classical sense.

Preprint / Working Paper [Preprint]
preliminary scientific or technical papers, which may appear in a scientific journal, as part of a book or in the series of an institution.

The description of the document types was mainly taken from the OPUS documentation. (Source: OPUS 4 Manual, Version 4.4.2 Documentation Version 4.4.2 (21.11.2013)

Entering bibliographic data
Please enter the data in the upload form as completely and correctly as possible, e.g. a completely entered author name prevents confusion.
Fill in the form with the necessary information for the content and formal description of the document. The bibliographic data will only be uploaded to the OPUS server after a formal check by the OPUS team of the doctoral office and thus made publicly accessible.

Help on individual elements of the publication form
Author
Please enter here all authors of the text in the order used for the publication. Authors are the persons responsible for the intellectual content, e.g. authors of text documents, artists, photographers or illustrators of graphic documents.
For example, if you upload an essay that has appeared in a journal under the author name "Meier, Martin / Müller, Martina / Schulze, Sabrina", please indicate the same order, even if you are Sabrina Schulze.
If possible, please enter the e-mail addresses of all authors.

ORCID, ResearcherID
If you have an ORCID or/and ResearcherID, please enter it. This should enable the electronic assignment of scientific publications and authors.

Institution of the university (mandatory field)
Please select the organisational unit of the Hochschule Geisenheim University to which the author belongs.
Supervisor, date of final examination, institution awarding the title
The title awarding institution is the Hochschule Geisenheim University.

Publication language (mandatory field)
Please enter the language of your text here.

Title (mandatory field)
Please enter the title and, if applicable, the subtitle of your document in the format "Title : Subtitle".
Especially for online publications, it makes sense to include the title in other languages (e.g. English) so that your publication can be better found by search engines. You can add (or delete) further titles by clicking on the button.

Title of the parent work / journal
Please enter the title of the superior work (e.g. journal, anthology, anthology).

ISSN
If applicable, please enter the ISSN of the publication series or journal.

Publisher
If there is an editor of the book/conference, please enter him/her.

Year of publication
Please indicate the year in which your document was first published.

Volume / Volume, Issue / Edition
The information is only required for articles in magazines and complete magazine issues. You will find the information either on the cover or in the imprint. If your article appears in a journal without year or issue count, you can leave the respective field blank.

edition
Please enter the edition here, e.g. "2nd edition" or "3rd, completely revised edition". You do not need to enter anything here if this is the first edition.

Publisher
Please indicate here which publisher has already published your document. If it is a first publication in OPUS Geisenheim, please leave this field empty.

Publication series of the Hochschule Geisenheim University
If your text has appeared in a series of publications of the Hochschule Geisenheim, you can select it from the drop-down menu. If your contribution has been published in another series, please enter its title in the Other series field.

Other Series
Indicate in which publication series the volume was published if the publication series does not appear within the Hochschule Geisenheim or if you cannot find the title of the publication series in the drop-down menu of the publication series. After the title of the series, please add the volume count of the series.
Example: Name of the publication series ; Volume number

ISBN
Please enter an ISBN if available.

Page number
Please enter the number of pages. Entry for articles / essays in the form: "First page - Last page" or only the article number.

Abstract / Short summary
An abstract is a description of the content of your document. It can be copied/paste from the document into the field. If no content description has been created, the introduction, abstract, table of contents, etc. can be entered here instead.
If you enter a short summary of your text here, this will facilitate the literature search. In databases and scientific search engines, the abstract field is usually searched as well, even if the full text of the document is not searched. Your text is therefore much easier to find if you enter a meaningful summary here.
You can add more abstracts in other languages by clicking on the button. Please enter a German and an English abstract for your dissertations.

Standardized keywords (GND)
Please enter keywords from the common standards file for your document here. Follow the link http://swb.bsz-bw.de/DB=2.104/ to select keywords from the standards file for your document. Copy/paste them into the publication form. New lines can be created with the plus button.

Free keywords / keywords
Here you can enter freely selectable terms that describe the content of your publication. It is advisable to select three to five meaningful German and English terms.

General technical classification (DDC classification)
The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is the internationally most widely used classification for the content indexing of library holdings. Please assign the appropriate DDC class to your document and use the "Next" button to go as far as possible to the 3rd level. Example input: "100" (for Philosophy and psychology)

DOI of the document
If your first release already has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), please enter it. If you would like to assign a DOI for your publication in OPUS Geisenheim in addition to the default URN (Uniform Resource Name), please contact the doctoral office. To differentiate between first and second publication and your possibilities, please contact the Opus Geisenheim Team.

URL of the document
If your first release has a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), please enter it.

Other institutions involved
If the work was published by an institution or if another institution was involved, please write the institution in this field (e.g. "XY-Foundation" /, year, place).

Other persons involved
Name additional person(s) to those named in the Author(s) or Author(s) fields. You have made a significant intellectual contribution to the document, which is secondary to that of the author (e.g. translator).
Please enter the function of the persons involved after the surname, e.g. Meier, Hans (translator), .... You can add (or delete) further entries by clicking on the button.

Licenses
Here you decide under which conditions you make your publication available to the public. Further information on the individual licenses can be found here.

Notes
Please use this field for further information about your publication, which you cannot place in any other field, possible comments, questions, comments and suggestions for improvement. You can also contact us by phone or e-mail.

Contact details of the provider
If you are not the author yourself, please enter your contact details here if you have any queries. This data will only be stored internally.

Metadata can be defined as
- Data that describes one or more resources, or is described as a
- Data that is linked to an object and describes this object.
In principle, metadata therefore represents a description of documents, objects or services and contains information about their content, structure or form.

More abstractly, metadata are descriptions of data or "data about data". Bibliographic records and catalogue entries in libraries can be seen as a form of metadata.
As a basis for the metadata on this document server the Dublin Core Metedata Element Set (short Dublin Core or DC) consisting of 15 basic elements shall serve. Dublin Core is the result of international efforts to find a common consensus on the description of electronic objects (in the broadest sense). The Library of Congress (LoC), the Online Cataloging Library Center (OCLC) and a number of national libraries are engaged in projects with Dublin Core or are about to introduce it.

Publication process
To begin, select the "Publish" menu on the OPUS home page.

Step 1
Then select the document type "Dissertation". You can upload your document(s) directly below. Your publication will be published in the format you selected. The formatting of the documents uploaded to OPUS should correspond to the requirements of scientific work. Additional file formats, e.g. zip, doc(x), xls(x), tex, are accepted for the optional additional submission of the original files of the dissertations.

Afterwards read the guidelines and agree to them by ticking the box. Then please print out the declaration of consent.

Step 2
The upload form follows. Here you will be asked for various data on your publication (so-called metadata), which serve to describe it in catalogues and other bibliographic directories. Describe the document you want to contribute using the predefined categories. Depending on the type of document, some of the fields are mandatory. Otherwise, enter as much information as possible.
For example, the fields are entered:

  • Document type
  • the title of your publication and the language of the title
  • Brief description of the content of your document
  • Standardized and free keywords / keywords
  • the language of the document
  • the license under which you want to publish your document

At the end of data entry, your entries are displayed again and you have the option of correcting, canceling or saving the entries for your document.

Step 3
Finally, send the signed declaration of consent to the OPUS team.
The uploaded PDF file and the accompanying metadata are now in a buffer. The OPUS administration checks the entries and activates the document as soon as the signed declaration of consent has been received. The author is notified by e-mail and receives a confirmation of submission.
All published documents are freely accessible on the Internet.

Requirements for texts and layout / style sheets
Format templates for OPUS publications are not provided. The formatting of the documents submitted to OPUS should correspond to the requirements of scientific work. Please refer to the dissonline.de website for further information.

Technical requirements for the documents / PDF creation
Accepted file formats
Your document must be readable with a standard reader program. The size of the file should be as small as possible. The file name should be as simple as possible without special characters or spaces (e.g. surname_Diss.pdf), since the file name is generally visible after publication. OPUS currently supports several document types including pdf, zip, doc(x), xls(x),tex

If your work contains programs, files, video sequences, sound documents or the like on a CD insert, this should be prepared as a compressed file in ZIP format for publication and should also be uploaded.

No security settings / no DRM measures
Please do not set any security settings in your PDF document. According to a specification of the German National Library, the document must not be copy-protected or otherwise access-protected in order to guarantee long-term archiving of the document.

File size limited when uploading
The system only accepts files up to 250 MB when uploading. If you want to publish larger files, skip the upload of the document during the publishing process and send us the document on CD, DVD, web storage or personally with a USB stick.

Uploading the file(s)
If you have problems uploading your documents, please fill in the form as much as possible and send your file(s) by e-mail to -> promotionsbuero@hs-gm.de

Please submit text documents as PDF/A files if possible = Accessible PDF

Documents in OPUS are usually published in PDF format. In order to ensure long-term archiving, the respective document must be saved in the standardized barrier-free PDF/A format. PDF/A is an international standard that was specially developed for archiving documents. Saving in the PDF/A standard ensures that the file is also readable if it is opened on a computer on which the fonts used are not installed. For this purpose, all fonts and images used in the document are embedded and the metadata is saved in a standardized format.

Create PDF/A documents
You can save documents directly as PDF/A in most word processing programs:
  • Microsoft Word (Version 2007 or later, Service Pack 2): Office → Save to → Publish as XPS or PDF → Options → Check "ISO-19005-1-compatible (PDF/A)".
  • Microsoft Word 2007 without Service Pack 2: Saving as PDF/A works as described above after you install this add-on.
  • Older versions of Word: A direct PDF export is not possible on the part of the program; however, you can use a PDF printing program (see below) or create your PDF file at the workstations in the university library with Adobe Acrobat.
  • OpenOffice.org: File → Export → General → Check "PDF/A-1".
  • LaTeX: With pdfTeX you can also create PDF/A documents.

In Adobe Acrobat (please do not confuse it with Acrobat Reader, where you can only read PDF documents but not edit them), you can create PDF/A documents via File → Save at → Further options → PDF/A. Alternatively, you can download a free conversion program such as PDF Maker (Windows only), which can convert different document types to PDF and PDF/A format.

How to create a PDF/A file (Source: ETH Zurich)
Tips and hints for creating PDF files
  • Please do not provide your PDF with a print or copy barrier. These "security settings" do not protect you against the misuse of your text. In addition, your document will not be included in the full text search of OPUS; your publication is therefore much more difficult to find.
  • All file names should only contain the letters A to Z, the numbers 0 to 9 and the underscore (no umlauts, no accents, no special characters, no spaces). Assign a meaningful, short file name.
  • Make sure that the document properties (file → Properties or file → Document Properties) contain meaningful information about the title and author.
  • Further information on the PDF format and the creation of PDF files can be found, for example, in the online tutorial "Electronic publishing in PDF format" at the Freiburg University of Applied Sciences.
  • The dissonline.de platform provides information on the PDF/A standard (barrier-free PDFs).
  • Please note that it is not possible to integrate audio and video files into barrier-free PDFs. Please contact us if your publication contains such files.

Edit PDF files
Many work steps are only possible with (usually chargeable) PDF generation software such as Adobe Acrobat:
  • Merge multiple PDF files
  • Delete, insert, renumber, or rotate pages in a PDF file
  • Correct minor typos directly in the PDF
  • Preparation of the document for professional printing.

Dissertations / Submission / Confirmation
Dissertations may only be published after they have passed the oral examination and have received printing permission!

If you want to publish a dissertation on OPUS Geisenheim, the doctoral office needs you:
  • the dissertation as a PDF file, preferably in PDF/A format (better suited for long-term archiving and accessibility than simple PDF), see Creating a PDF/A Guide
  • Eight printed and bound copies are requested for the holdings of the library/institute and doctoral office (cf. doctoral regulations):
  • the signed declaration of consent On request, the authors can also upload the file in its original format (e.g. .docx or .tex). This file is not publicly accessible and is for long-term archiving purposes only.

You can register your work via the menu item "Publish" and upload the files. Make sure that the PDF version matches the submitted print copy exactly. For this reason, you should use the PDF file as a print template for the printed copies you require. This guarantees that the formatting of the electronic and printed versions is identical.

Before the final release of your document, it must be confirmed with a declaration of consent (printed and signed),
  • that the Hochschule Geisenheim University is granted the right to store the document, to make it publicly accessible in data networks and, if necessary, to convert it into other data formats,
  • that the publication of this document does not infringe the rights of third parties,
  • that the publication has been approved by the Doctoral Committee and that the electronic version conforms in form and content to the approved original version.

Please hand in the signed declaration of consent together with the printed copies to the doctoral office of the Hochschule Geisenheim University.
It is not absolutely necessary to appear in person in order to hand in the copies;

postal delivery is also possible:

Hochschule GEISENHEIM University
Doctoral Office and Graduate School
Von-Lade-Str. 1, 65366 Geisenheim
Germany (German)

The electronic version and the bibliographical data will be checked and, if necessary, supplemented by the doctoral office of the Hochschule Geisenheim University. Please note: For data protection reasons, the electronic version of the dissertation should not contain the curriculum vitae.
Finally, the dissertation will be published on OPUS Geisenheim and will be accessible free of charge, publicly and without restriction on the Internet.

After publication/activation of the dissertation

The possibly involved examination office of the cooperating partner university will receive a confirmation of submission by post confirming that the publication obligation imposed by the doctoral regulations has been fulfilled.
The author will be informed of the activation by e-mail. At the same time, the electronic publication will be reported to the German National Library in Frankfurt/Main, which registers and archives the publication with the associated metadata.

The dissertation is listed in the catalogue of the library of the Hochschule Geisenheim University.

Second release?

Even if your dissertation has already been published in printed form by a publisher, you can in many cases, after consultation with the publisher, second publish the work on OPUS.
After a first publication in OPUS, you can additionally publish your dissertation in a publishing house. It goes without saying that the publisher must be informed about the already existing publication.

Cumulative Dissertations

Cumulative dissertations can also be published in OPUS.

What is special about cumulative dissertations is that it is often not possible to publish the full text in its entirety because existing publishing contracts prevent this. One makes use of the fact that individual chapters only contain bibliographic references to journal articles that have already been published.
If possible, the articles/essays referred to in the dissertation should be published separately as preprint/postprint versions in OPUS Geisenheim.

Please check whether the preprint/postprint version can be published in OPUS. A list of publishers that allow a second publication in university repositories such as OPUS Geisenheim can be found in the SHERPA/RoMEO list.

If you have any questions about second publications, please contact the doctoral office of Hochschule Geisenheim University - promotionsbuero@hs-gm.de

First and second publication

This category includes essays / articles, preprints, reports, book chapters, books, etc. published in journals or anthologies.

First publication

If you would like to publish an article that has not yet been published, this is usually done as a preprint or working paper.

Secondary publication
You are welcome to publish documents in OPUS that have already been published elsewhere. You will then no longer only publish your research results to the subscribers of the respective journal or buyer of the anthology, but to the public permanently and free of charge (Open Access).

Online publication according to the Open Access principle is recommended by the German Rectors' Conference and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The electronic publication is more visible and easier to find.

A study of the British SHERPA project showed that the vast majority of internationally active, renowned publishers such as Blackwell, Elsevier, Kluwer, Springer and Wiley grant their authors the right to parallel publication on their personal website or a university repository such as OPUS Geisenheim.
The conditions for secondary publication on an Institutional Repository vary from case to case. The SHERPA/ROMEO list contains most of the renowned publishers and their basic attitude towards Open Access parallel publications.
Please be sure to observe the legal requirements. This is governed by your contract with the publisher. During contract negotiations, make sure that you as the author do not assign all rights to the publisher, but reserve the right to publish online on a document server. Many publishers only allow secondary publication with restrictions, e.g. after a certain period of time (embargo) or only in the original format. If you are unsure, please contact the staff responsible for OPUS at the doctoral office of the Hochschule Geisenheim University.
Since 1 January 2014 a new secondary publication law applies (§ 38 Abs. 4 UrhG).

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The author of a scholarly contribution, which is the result of at least half of a research activity funded by public funds and which is published in a collection which appears periodically at least twice a year, has the right, even if he has granted the publisher or editor an exclusive right of use, to make the contribution publicly accessible in the accepted manuscript version after twelve months from the date of first publication, provided that this does not serve any commercial purpose. The source of the first publication must be stated. Any agreement deviating to the detriment of the author is invalid.
Please refer to this overview of the SUB Göttingen. Here you can see what the new secondary publication law permits.
Publication series
If you would like to publish in an ongoing series, please contact the respective editor.
For the series Geisenheim Berichte contact Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Hochschule Geisenheim, GFHG.

Changing / deleting documents
The possibility of changing or deleting documents is not supported in principle. This guarantees the authenticity of the documents. This makes them comparable to printed publications.
If the author wishes a correction to be made, he must re-introduce the amended document. This corresponds to the process of reprinting printed publications.

The declaration of consent (PDF) regulates the legal relationship between you as author and the Hochschule Geisenheim, acting as publisher.
Your document will only be published (i.e. activated in OPUS) once the signed declaration of consent has been submitted to the doctoral office of the Hochschule Geisenheim University.
Send the declaration of consent by post to:

Hochschule GEISENHEIM University Doctoral Office and Graduate School

Von-Lade-Str. 1, 65366 Geisenheim Germany

Through the consent form and the online publication form, you determine which license applies to your work. Explanations of the licenses can be found here.
The Creative Commons Licensing makes it possible to deviate from certain provisions of copyright law in the sense of Open Access. This is intended to remove barriers to the dissemination of knowledge in the field of research and culture, e.g. in order to make it possible to edit the work in another language.
The rights of use are transferred via individually selectable standard licence models. The author's personal right, i.e. the authorship itself, is not affected by a Creative Commons licence, i.e. the author must be named for each exploitation.

We recommend the Creative Commons CC by 4.0 as the standard license for publications in OPUS Geisenheim. This is the most free CC license, recommended for maximum distribution and use of the licensed material.

  • CC by - Creative Commons License: Attribution 4.0
    This license allows you to reproduce, distribute, and publicly perform the content. Editings may be made and distributed. The content may be used commercially under the following conditions: The name of the author or the holder of the right must be mentioned. The license is based on the international Creative Commons Initiative. The license allows very extensive use and is Open Access compliant.

  • CC by sa - Creative Commons License: Attribution - Sharing under the same conditions 4.0
    This license allows you to reproduce, distribute and publicly perform the Content under the following conditions: The name of the author/right holder must be mentioned. This content may be used for commercial purposes. The content may be modified (including translations of the work), the distribution of the modified version may only take place under the conditions stated here. The license is based on the international Creative Commons Initiative. It is considered Open Access compliant.
    Explanations of the Creative Commons licenses can be found on the website: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/.

However, it is also sufficient if you publish only under the conditions stated in the declaration of consent:
  • Standard conditions according to the declaration of consent (without granting further rights of use)
    The author permits the Hochschule Geisenheim to make the electronic version of his or her publication permanently and irrevocably available to the public free of charge on the Internet and on the document server as an Open Access publication.
    You determine which license should apply to your work in the online publication form.

exploitation rights
In the case of an online publication on the document server of the Hochschule Geisenheim, the exploitation rights to the published work for all uses remain with the previous rights holders, i.e. the authors of the work or, in the case of a transfer of rights by the author, with the publishers or exploiters of the work.
The copyright holders merely transfer the simple right of use for online publication and the rights necessary for digital long-term archiving to the Hochschule Geisenheim.
The authors thus retain the right to publish the work elsewhere in print or online.

Rights of use
Documents offered in electronic form via data networks are subject to the provisions of the German Copyright Act (UrhG), unless the author or rights holder has agreed special conditions for certain exploitation rights by granting a Creative Commons License.
According to § 53 of the Copyright Act, the reader is entitled to make personal copies and printouts for his/her own scientific or non-commercial use. In addition, the copyright law (§§ 44a - 63a UrhG) applies.
Any further use requires the express, prior and written permission of the author or the holder of the right. The user is responsible for compliance with legal regulations. He/she may be held liable for misuse.
Documentation
This document server is operated on the basis of the OPUS4 software. OPUS is documented at http://opus4.kobv.de/.
Export
Export to literature management programs
The metadata of a title can be exported in the formats RIS and BibTeX, standardized file formats for literature management. The literature management program Citavi is available to students, lecturers and employees of the Hochschule Geisenheim University as a campus license. For the Citavi import the export can be used with the button "RIS" or "Bibtex".

RSS feeds
An RSS feed is available for the ten most recently published documents. https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hs-eisenheim/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/latest/export/rss. RSS feeds can be subscribed to for any search (including selected facets). All you have to do is add the following parameters to the URL: /export/rss

Export as XML file
Your hit lists can be exported as XML files, regardless of whether they were generated via search or browsing, and can therefore be further processed independently of the platform. In this case, please contact the doctoral office of the Hochschule Geisenheim University - promotionsbuero@hs-gm.de
Guidelines
Goals and content criteria for OPUS Geisenheim
The online publication service offers all doctoral students at Hochschule Geisenheim University the organisational and technical framework for the prompt electronic publication of their dissertations. Within the scope of this service offered by Hochschule Geisenheim University, scientific documents are made available for research and teaching on the Internet in compliance with quality standards.
With its service, the Hochschule Geisenheim supports worldwide, free access to scientific information in the sense of Open Access.
The electronic documents receive permanent, citable "Persistent Identifiers" in the form of URN addresses and are accessible via national and international library catalogues, search engines, OAI service providers and other reference tools. In addition, long-term archiving of electronic documents is guaranteed. In the operation and further development of OPUS Geisenheim, recommendations and standardisations of national and international initiatives such as the German Initiative for Network Information (DINI), Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) are taken into account.

Legal framework
The author grants the operator of the publication server the following rights of use:

- the permanent right to electronic storage, in particular in databases,
- the simple permanent right of use (§ 31 Abs. 2 UrhG) for making available to the public in international data networks in accordance with § 19a UrhG,
- the permanent right to conversion for the purpose of long-term archiving or visualization, while respecting the preservation of the content (the original archiving is preserved),
- the right to modify and/or complete the metadata supplied by the author and/or the publisher, as the case may be,
- the right to make the metadata accessible and usable by anyone without restriction,
- the right to transfer the document and the associated metadata to the German National Library as well as to other technically suitable or regional document servers with the same aforementioned rights.
Authors are recommended to use Creative Commons licenses. The authors and editors are solely responsible for the content of the documents. The Hochschule Geisenheim accepts no liability for the content of the publications provided or linked external pages. The author or editor assures that the document does not violate any legal regulations, official decrees or other rights of third parties. The authors or editors undertake to clarify the copyright and exploitation rights of third parties or to obtain their consent. The author or the publisher of the publication will inform the Hochschule Geisenheim immediately if he or she is aware of the existence or emergence of legal obstacles. The copyrights of the authors are protected. The Hochschule Geisenheim University is only granted a simple right of use.

Publication on OPUS Geisenheim does not prevent further publication of the documents in specialist journals or monographs or on other servers.
In accordance with the recommendations of the Council of Science and Humanities, all scientists and students at Hochschule Geisenheim University are advised to secure a corresponding additional right of use when concluding publishing contracts and to publish the documents they have written in addition - possibly after a blocking period - Open Access.
Many publishers now allow self-archiving in institutional repositories or on the author's homepage, but this is often combined with the requirement of a period of time between the publisher's first publication and Open Access provision on the Internet. The SHERPA/ROMEO list contains the self-archiving regulations of the publishers. If you have any further questions, please contact your publisher. There will be no remuneration. Commercial use of the publications by the Hochschule Geisenheim is excluded.

Requirements for electronic documents
For the purposes of these Guidelines, 'electronic document' means a document which may contain text, graphics and audio or video sequences, is stored in digital form on a data carrier and is distributed over computer networks. An electronic document to be published via OPUS Geisenheim meets the following conditions:
- It is intended for distribution to the public.
- It is a closed document. If modifications are necessary, the modified electronic document is saved as a new version.
- It corresponds to the technical parameters specified by Hochschule Geisenheim University. The documents are described formally and in terms of content by the authors themselves or by a representative using an online form and are then uploaded to OPUS Geisenheim. All documents will be reviewed by the authors in a factual way.
opened up. The content is indexed by keywords of the Common Standards File (GND), by keywords that can be freely assigned and by classification in classification systems (e.g. DDC).
Electronic documents published and disseminated via OPUS Geisenheim All doctoral students of the Hochschule Geisenheim University whose work is related to the Hochschule Geisenheim University can contribute publications in an accepted file format to the archive or instruct the OPUS team Geisenheim to archive them. The content of the documents may not be changed.

The following types of electronic documents are stored: Dissertations, the publication of which is prescribed by examination regulations

Long-term availability and safety
The publication is stored and archived in OPUS Geisenheim as a PDF file. This file is protected against manipulation. For long-term, globally unambiguous and location-independent referencing, i.e. for permanent searchability and citation, each document is assigned a "Persistent Identifier" (Uniform Resource Name) according to the urn:nbn scheme of the German National Library in addition to the URL.
In principle, the permanent and free availability of the documents is aimed at; however, they are guaranteed to be available for at least 5 years. The archiving beyond that depends on the availability of the format, the viewing software as well as the conversion possibilities. The finally published documents can no longer be changed or deleted. In justified cases, however, the distribution may be restricted to certain areas (e.g. access only from the IP address range of the Hochschule Geisenheim University). International standards such as the guidelines of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) are used and further developed for the indexing, storage and archiving of electronic documents. Statistics evaluate the number of accesses to each document per month, the use of the publication server per day and the indexing by search engine robots per month.
Indexing
In order to achieve an effective content search on a national and international level, each publication is indexed by bibliographic and technical metadata according to the Dublin Core format as well as by at least one abstract, a classification and keywords. These data are to be provided by the author. In order to ensure a uniform quality standard, the metadata may be processed by the OPUS team of the Hochschule Geisenheim University in the form of additions and corrections. The documents are accessible and searchable via different sources, currently they belong to it:
- OAIster - search in over 1,100 freely accessible document servers worldwide
- BASE - Bielefeld University's multidisciplinary search engine for scientific Internet sources
- Catalogue of the German National Library (with the exception of dependent works, e.g. essays)
- Catalogue of the Geisenheim Library (with the exception of dependent works, e.g. essays)
- Search engines such as Google and Google Scholar

Organizational regulations
The publication server OPUS Geisenheim is operated by the Hochschule Geisenheim University. The hardware and software of this server is maintained by the Kooperativen Bibliotheksverbund (KOBV). The electronic publication is free of charge for members of the Hochschule Geisenheim and members of institutions associated with the Hochschule Geisenheim.
Electronic documents for distribution via OPUS Geisenheim are usually submitted via an upload form. The OPUS team of the Hochschule Geisenheim University supervises and carries out any additional work required for publication, such as preparing the electronic documents or converting them into other formats.
The contact person for all questions concerning the publication service is the OPUS team of the Hochschule Geisenheim University.

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Disclaimer
The published information has been carefully compiled, but makes no claim that it is up-to-date, factually correct or complete; no corresponding warranty is given. All free offers are non-binding. The operator reserves the right to change, supplement or delete the offer or parts thereof at any time without prior notice. The server operator is not responsible for the content of external sites reached via a link. The published links are researched and compiled with the greatest possible care. The operator has no influence on the current and future design and content of the linked pages.

The operator is not responsible for the content of the linked pages and does not adopt the content as its own. For illegal, incorrect or incomplete contents as well as for damage, which results from the use or disuse of the information, alone the offerer of the Web Site, to which one referred, is responsible. The liability of the person who merely refers to the publication by a link is excluded.

The copyright for any material created by the author is reserved. The operator makes every effort to design the web pages, either to use self-created texts and graphics or to use license-free material.

All brands and trademarks mentioned within the Internet offer and possibly protected by third parties are subject without restriction to the provisions of the applicable trademark law and the ownership rights of the respective registered owners.
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Vizepräsidentin Forschung der Hochschule Geisenheim University
Frau Prof. Dr. Annette Reineke
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