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Support for researchers
Guidance and research support
Open Access Guidance
- Financing options for Open Access publishing
- How to find the right journal for your publication
- How to identify and avoid predatory journals
- Advice on publishing routes and quality assurance
Support for Open Access publishing
- Rostock University’s OA publication fund to cover publishing costs
- Advice on publishing within the DEAL contracts with Wiley and Springer Nature
- Discounts available from contracts with OA publishers
- Publishing your own OA journal
Publishing your data
- Advice on copyright, licensing, data protection, and subject-specific requirements
- Selecting the right repository for your data
- Choosing the correct data format and creating metadata
- Publishing on RosDok with a DOI
Managing research data
- Information on research data management
- Guidance on how to process, save, and archive data to ensure lasting reusability
- Support in creating data management plans
- Project cooperation
RosDok digital publishing
- Publishing series, working papers, research reports, final theses, proceedings, etc.
- Publishing mandatory (reference) copies of doctoral theses and habilitation treatises (hard copy and digital)
- Creating DOIs, URNs, ISBNs, PURLs, GNDs, etc.
- Digitising printed publications and historical collections
Support for Digital Humanities projects
- Guidance on data modelling, standards, and tools
- Cooperation and infrastructure support
- Digitising and indexing source materials
- Archiving and sustainability
Information on intellectual property rights
- Patenting research data
- Employee Inventions Act – rights and obligations
- Patent applications and internationalisation of intellectual property
- Training in commercial property law and patent research
- Free initial consultation for inventors by patent attorneys
Support for research projects and establishing companies
- Patent research (state of technology, trademark research, legal advice)
- Patent monitoring
- Statistical analysis (technological trends, competitors, markets)
- Researching technical standards (DIN, ISO, etc.)
Additional services
Scientific literature and subject-specific information
- Provision of books, journals, and databases, in print and online
- Guidance on searching and search tools
- Establishing course reserves for classes and longterm reference collections for departments and projects
- Contacts and subject specialists
Delivery services
- Scanning service: provides electronic copies of journal articles for use in teaching and research
- Book delivery service: provides physical media from the Campus Library Südstadt and the Tannenweg stacks
Copyright
Please click here for a summary of the updated copyright provisions that took effect on 1 March 2018.