1. Doktorandentag in Adlershof 25.10.13 Niels Fromm Workgroup Electronic Publishing Niels Fromm

2. Doktorandentag in Adlershof 25.10.13 Niels Fromm History -Developed the edoc-server of the Humboldt-University -Started 1997 among the first Universities in Germany to give its students the option of publishing an electronic version of their Theses or Dissertation -Working Group Electronic Publishing was founded 1999 as joint endeavour of the Computing Centre and the University Library - employees from the Computing Centre and the Library are working together -Longterm Preservation and longterm Availability of the published documents were topics from the start: we made the commitment that the published documents will be available for 50 years -Focus is the free and unrestricted Access to all Documents published on the edoc- Server -> Open Access

3. Doktorandentag in Adlershof 25.10.13 Niels Fromm Electronic Documents -Started with Electronic Theses and Dissertations (about 2500) -Expanded our offer to eJournals, Series and Articles, digitised historic Documents (altogether about 18000 single documents available online) -Every Item uploaded and published on our Server has to be Open-Access in Full- Text -For every Item we generate an persistent identifier (URN-System by german national Library) -Usage statistics for each document:

4. Doktorandentag in Adlershof 25.10.13 Niels Fromm Current Research Projects -OpenAccess-Statistik (Central calculation of usage Statistics for Document-Servers for comparability) -OpenAccess-Netzwerk (Centralised Services for OA-Repositories, like a search over all connected Repositories or duplicate checks) -LuKII (LOCKSS and Kopal Infrastructure and und Interoperability, Development prototype, proof of concept and via this project we started a german LOCKSS- Network and a LOCKSS-Competence-Centre ) -EOD (ebooks on demand: digitalisation of historic books on demand, link to order in Library catalog)

5. Doktorandentag in Adlershof 25.10.13 Niels Fromm Current Research Projects -Laudatio (Project aims to build an open access research data repository) -Research Data Management Survey at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

6. Doktorandentag in Adlershof 25.10.13 Niels Fromm Electronic Theses and Dissertations Requirements for delivery: -Electronic Version of the Publication must be delivered in the PDF-Format with certain properties (PDF/A) -Abstract in english and german with max. 2000 characters in plain text format (without any formatting) -Four Keywords in english and german as plain text -Sign Publication-Contract to give us the right to publish your Theses -Four copies of your Theses or Dissertation on Paper (can be printed for you by the Library for a reasonable price) Electronic Publishing is quick, simple and affordable

7. Doktorandentag in Adlershof 25.10.13 Niels Fromm edoc.hu-berlin.de

8. Doktorandentag in Adlershof 25.10.13 Niels Fromm edoc.hu-berlin.de -Repository Ranking (http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/world) -Europe: 24 -Germany: 5 Electronic Publication on the edoc-Server ensures high visibility!

9. Doktorandentag in Adlershof 25.10.13 Niels Fromm Questions? fromm@ub.hu-berlin.de