One Repo fits all – The Specialist Repository for Life Sciences as a Data Store for every type of publication

There are many different types of repositories for scientific purposes. Fortunately, more and more institutions and infrastructural units discover the value of digital storages which allow the reuse of research results in the context of open science. Based on this many scientific communities establish a number of commonly used repositories and other publishing platforms for different kinds of scientific output. These platforms and repositories provide only one kind of publication. This causes the problem that it can be difficult to find and to get access to all information about one research project of one scientific group or institution. ZB MED and its publication platform (PUBLISSO) aims not only to establish competitive products for existing best-case-scenarios, but to fill these gaps in publication services. Therefore, PUBLISSO has built a repository which fits all types of publication. PUBLISSO provides access to a broad range of publications (i.e. text publications and research data) at one place. Also, it gives small institutions and communities the opportunity to publish their work at one place. Additionally, PUBLISSO promotes the idea of cross referencing to make relations of publications visible. Therefore, the development of tools of Linked Open Data are constantly monitored and implemented if possible.