Research on East Central Europe in Open Access: The publication server of the Marburg-based Herder Institute for Research on East Central Europe offers, among other things, a continuously growing number of freely accessible publications by scholars of the Institute and cooperating institutions.
Goals
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The repository enables scientific electronic publications to be made accessible permanently and free of charge in the form of bibliographic data and, if possible, in full text. Publications already published elsewhere in open access can also be listed here. This enables the staff of the Institute and its cooperation partners to comply with the requirements of national and international funding agencies, the DFG guidelines for safeguarding good scientific practice, the Institute's own principles for handling research data (Research data policy) and the Herder Institute's Open Access policy. But above all, it also ensures the visibility and reusability of the research results presented here.
A special focus is on sustainability: The deposited electronic publications receive permanent addresses via persistent identifiers (e.g. so-called Digital Object Identifiers, DOI).
So far, the publication server lists almost 200 publications in three languages, most of which are accessible in full text. Included are scientific publications produced by staff of the Herder Institute, the in-house publishing house Verlag Herder Institut and the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena and magazine articles from the Copernico portal.
Types of publications
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Currently accessible via the publication server are mainly:
  • journal articles
  • monographs, series and anthologies
  • proceedings, reports, preprints
  • research data
Cataloguing and indexing
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The publications are indexed by staff members of the Herder Institute's research library in cooperation with the submitting scientists and researchers. The main tools used for subject indexing are: 
  • abstracts (summaries in German and English)
  • subject headings (both from the authority file Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) and with supplementary freely chosen subject headings in German and English)
  • classification according to DDC (Dewey Decimal Classification) or LeibnizOpen Subject Classification
Each dataset also offers numerous additional bibliographic metadata that can be exported in BibTeX and RIS (Research Information System Format) formats for transfer to external literature management applications.
Technical basis
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The technical basis of the publication server is the open source repository software OPUS version 4. The metadata for the published articles are passed on to LeibnizOpen, the Leibniz Association's Open Access portal, via a standardized interface (OAI-PMH 2.0). In the future, the publication server will also be connected to the research data repository OstData, which is currently under construction.

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