• Teachers and researchers at the University of Siegen
• Staff of the University of Siegen
• Students and alumni in cooperation with current university members

universi reserves the right to decide whether to accept a publication.
The final decision rests with the Academic Advisory Board, which also advises on the inclusion of new series in the publishing program.

• Qualifying theses (Master's theses (with recommendation), dissertations, habilitation theses), monographs, conference proceedings, series, journals, art catalogs
• OJS and OMP
• Freely available digitally on OPUS and in high-quality print
   

• Advice/support: print and/or online
• Personal advice on cost estimate and financing modalities
• Optimization of artwork for print and/or online publication
• Formal and technical quality control
• Typesetting, editing and proofreading on request; contact with print shop(s)
• Design of title pages, imprint and cover (also in the university's corporate design), procurement of graphic design services
• Provision of ISBN and, if applicable, ISSN, URN and DOI;
• Archiving and publication of the online version on the OPUS publication server of the University Library
• Inclusion in book trade catalogs (e.g. VLB)
• Inclusion of 2 copies in the holdings of the University Library; cataloging in the Katalog plus of the University Library
• Delivery of the legal deposit copies
• Registration of the title in the German National Library and in other relevant library databases
• Delivery of review copies to specialist journals on request
• Storage and management of publisher's copies
• Sales to the book trade and individual customers
• Accounting and revenue monitoring
• Producing reprints / print-on-demand-services
• If necessary, advertising through the production of advertising material, at trade fairs etc.
• universi info flyer (Status: May 2025)

• As an author:
  What is ORCID? (Open Researcher and Contributor ID)
  ORCID is a registry of unique, persistent IDs for researchers that is open, non-profit, transparent, portable and research-oriented. ORCID provides you with a permanent digital ID that distinguishes you from all other researchers and helps you to automatically link your professional activities. 
  As an author, you register for an ORCID. 

  Instructions and notes from Siegen University Library

   

• Your publication:
  What is a DOI? (Digital Object Identifier)
  In the digital environment, documents need to be stable, datable, citable, findable and must remain unchanged. The DOI is a unique and permanent identifier for digital publications. It identifies the publication and not the location where the article/document is currently located. To enable access to identified objects, the International DOI Foundation (IDF), as the operator, provides a system that assigns the current location(s) of the document to the DOI. 
  All universi publications receive both a DOI and a URN (Uniform Resource Name) and a persistent URL.

  Information on copyright and citation law
  Copyright issues arise in connection with the reproduction of images, photographs (digital and/or print) etc. in publications. 
  Below we have compiled some links that provide basic information on this:
  Urheberrecht in Wissenschaft und Forschung (Legal Office of the University of Siegen, here especially the FAQ) 
  Urheberrecht in der Wissenschaft. Ein Überblick für Forschung, Lehre und Bibliotheken (Brochure of the BMBF and the German Library Association/DBV)
  Urheberrecht und offene Lizenzen im wissenschaftlichen Publikationsprozess (W. Scholger, in: Publikationsberatung an Universitäten, Lackner, Schilhan, Kaier [eds.], 2020)

• universi works with the aim of making academic publications from the University of Siegen available to the public as freely as possible and also to enable high-quality publications that are difficult to publish on a commercial publishing market.
  The aim is parallel publication online via the publication server OPUS), the institutional repository of the University Library, and print (minimum print run/print on demand). As a rule, Open Access publication is carried out using Creative Commons licenses (CC BY SA), as these support the free use and reuse of academic publications, for example through scientific search engines, specialist databases, etc. 
  This so-called hybrid publishing has great advantages for authors:
  You benefit from the citable and clearly identifiable, permanent and worldwide accessibility on the Internet without having to forego the user-friendly reading version in the form of a printed book.
• As an author/publisher, you contractually grant universi the so-called non-exclusive right of use for both the print version and the electronic version for publication and long-term archiving on OPUS. At the same time, you can archive and make this version available on your own or other institutional servers at any time (citing the first publication).
• Further information on OA publishing
• Model contracts:(Author) (Ed.)
• VG Wort
  As an author or publisher, please contact VG Wort directly to apply for royalty payments for your publications. To do so, you must register as a beneficiary.
  Berlin UP has formulated a handout on questions of compatibility between the VG Wort agreement and Open Access reuse licenses (CC licenses). 
  Although distributions are made via METIS for OA publications, OPUS (the repository of Siegen University Library and publication platform ofuniversi) is not connected to the counting procedure (via VG Wort).

The university finances the basic operation of universi. A prerequisite for inclusion in the universi program is usually basic funding from the academics', institutes' or others' own resources. This primarily concerns printing and production costs. A publishing fee, which includes the universi service, is charged depending on the project. The online versions and the online publication are free of charge. Pre-financing and risk assumption of parts of the printing costs - even for titles that are only expected to generate low sales revenue - is possible in individual cases.

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