Open Access Publishing for Hamburg Research. Quality-Assured Scholarly Open Access Publication Services

The digital publication of research results is an important step in the life cycle of academic research. Today, a publication needs to be as open as possible in order to unleash its full potential. In the context of the Open Access (OA) transformation institutional publishing services are emerging that enable quality-assured OA publications according to professional standards. 

We will present the publication services of the of the Hamburg State and University Library (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg) with the open access publication service Hamburg University Press as its core offer. We will focus on the benefits for researchers to publish their results according to scholar-led publishing: The technical infrastructure remains in science-related institutions, thus guaranteeing cost-effective and sustainable publication with increased visibility in the digital world.

This poster was being presented at the "Digital Total" in Hamburg, October 9-10, 2023. The event was organized and conducted by the House of Computing & Data Science (HCDS) of the Universität Hamburg, in collaboration with partners from the scientific platform PIER PLUS and the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.