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
Project collaborations
- SFB INF projects as incubators for infrastructure and services, e.g. SFB 1270 ELAINE and SFB 1477 LiMatI
- Joint roll-out of infrastructure services, e.g. electronic lab notebooks and version control
- Sustaining research infrastructure
- DFG-LIS applications to develop infrastructure with the research community
Advice and support on research data management
- for project applications
- for data management within projects or working groups
- Publication and archiving of research data
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.