Author Archives: Inken Feldsien-Sudhaus

About Inken Feldsien-Sudhaus

Former Head of Library. Hamburg University of Technology

Access to Nature journals : reading and publishing

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Screenshot: Nature Transformative Agreement for Germany: Information for Authors

Good news: Access to journals in the Nature portfolio has been extended for the TUHH and, from 1 January 2021, TUHH authors will have the opportunity to publish their articles in Nature and a further 32 original Nature research journals in open access. In the context of the DEAL contracts, a new consortium agreement for access and publication has been concluded. For this purpose, a fixed share of the payments from Germany is used to offset the OA costs, which amount to €9,500 + VAT per article. As soon as this amount is used up, the institutions themselves have to provide the funding. It is therefore worthwhile to successfully complete the review process early in the year with the publication! €9,500 is a very high and not uncontroversial price! As long as reputation in science is assessed via publication, prices will continue to rise and be paid. Perhaps you are interested in the actual discussion paper by the »Scientific practice« working group of the Priority Initiative »Digital Information« by the Alliance of Science Organisations with the title “Expanding academic publishing practices alongside the digital turn”.

We entered into the agreement because we receive reading access to the 2021 volume of the 55 titles of the Nature Portfolio, including the 21 Nature Review titles, at very little additional cost. The contract period is 2021-2024, can be cancelled annually. Previously, we only had access to the journal Nature and 3 other subscriptions.

You are welcome to contact us openaccess@tuhh.de

Hamburg Open Science Award 2020

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The project “designing the digital cultural change” within the cross-university program Hamburg Open Science is announcing the

Hamburg Open Science Award 2020

The Hamburg Open Science Award will be awarded in 2020 for the first time, with each prize endowed with €5,000. Up to 5 prizes will be awarded. Submit your application by 16th October 2020. The awards will be announced in November 2020.

Openness is a central idea in the digitalization of science, and Open Science is the key to more interdisciplinary and international cooperation, linkages, transparency, credibility, and efficiency in science and scholarship. It also offers a range of potential opportunities for more participation, innovation, and knowledge transfer in the economy and society as a whole. The criteria for an application can be found at

 

The Program Hamburg Open Science supports researchers from Hamburg-based publicly funded universities in making their work open source and has therefore announced the first-ever Hamburg Open Science Award. The prize honors researchers who are particularly active in promoting openness in academia.

Open Access Publishing Services tub.

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The empty campus of TUHH

 

The current corona situation shows how important free access to scientific information is. Therefore, the tub. offers services for open access publishing which are of course still available these days. We are working in the home office, sometimes with some restrictions, to further expand the offer.

Institutional Repository TORE TUHH Open Research
You can upload documents online to the TUHH Open Research repository at any time. This means that your publications are available worldwide without barriers! Please give us some time for the release of your documents. You are welcome to contact us at tore@tuhh.de.

Publication Fund
Submit an online application using the form if you want to publish an article in a pure Open Access journal. You can also contact us at openaccess@tuhh.de or find information on the funding guidelines here.

Personal Advice
Support on the various aspects of Open Access and scientific publishing can be found in the library.

Open Access search
Are you looking for Open Access documents? Here you will find a – continuously updated – overview of Open Access offerings, divided into three categories:

  • Open Access versions of paywall articles;
  • Purely Open Access publications;
  • preprint servers/open repositories.

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#OAWeek2018 Hamburg Open Science at TUHH

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Open Science TUHH requires close cooperation between research and infrastructure. On 6 December 2017, the Hamburg Parliament adopted the „Hamburg Open Science (HOS)“ programme. The aim is to make the research results of publicly funded research in Hamburg freely accessible and easy to discover.

At the TU Hamburg, the preliminary planning for Hamburg Open Science was carried out in close coordination between the Vice President Research, Prof. Dr. Timm-Giel, the library, the computer center and the presidential research department. The TU accepted the challenge that Open also stands for solutions based on Open Source. The library is involved in the following projects in 2018: Continue reading →

#OAWeek2018 Welcome to OpenTUHH Policy and Poster Walk

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Open Access Week 2018 at TUHH

Open Access – the free access to knowledge – has been a strategic goal of Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) since 2013. At the International Open Access Week from 22 to 28 October, TUHH’s openTUHH Policy will for the first time focus on the unity of openness in teaching and research and thus on common digital infrastructures. The openTUHH Policy developed from the projects Hamburg Open Science and Hamburg Open Online University with the goal of promoting digital cultural change at the University.

 

openTUHH | Policy für Offenheit in Forschung und Lehre

Invitation to the opening of Open Access Week 2018

The Open Access Week 2018 at the TUHH will be opened on 22 October at 12:30 by Prof. Dr. Timm-Giel, (Vice President Research). We cordially invite you to join us in the library.

  • Opening of #OAWeek2018 : Introductio to openTUHH Policy and Poster Walk with Prof. Dr. Timm-Giel
    1:30 pm  – 2 pm
  • A look behind the scenes of the library
    Meeting point: Rotunde.
    2 pm – 2:30 pm

Posterwalk

#1 openTUHH: Services of the library

Hamburg Open Science (work in progress)

openTUHH - Plakat der tub. 2018
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#2 Open Knowledge

Offenheit von Wissen - Plakat der tub. 2018
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#3 Open Access is a strategic aim of TUHH

Open Access - Plakat der tub. 2018
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#4 Publishing in Open Access

Open Access publizieren - Plakat der tub. 2018
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#5 Open Access Repository TUHH: tub.dok

Open Access Repository - Plakat der tub. 2018
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#6 Open Content: Creative Commons Lizences

Offene Inhalte CC-Lizenzen - Plakat der tub. 2018
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#7 Offene Bildung: Open Educational Resources

Offene Bildung - Plakat der tub. 2018
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#8 On the history of the openness of knowledge

Zur Geschichte der Offenheit von Wissen - Plakat der tub. 2018
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#9 Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten öffnen

Poster zum Projekt 'Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten oeffnen' der tub.
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The right journal for my article – ThinkCheckSubmit

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Think Check Submit

Journals are a huge and sometimes confusing offer. How do I make sure I make the right choice for my purpose? In which Open Access journals can the publication be funded by the TUHH DFG-Publishing Fund?

On Monday, July 16, 2018, from 1:15 p.m. to 1:45 p.m., the library in room 0.004 behind the information in the context of tub.talks offers the opportunity for personal exchange, to which the tub. cordially invites.

Where can I find reputable journal titles or publishers?

What should I pay particular attention by selecting a journal?

The Think Check Submit page offers a checklist, some of which are questions:

Do you or your colleagues know the journal?

– Have you read articles in the journal in the past?
– Can you easily find the latest articles in the journal?

Can you simply identify and contact the publisher?

– Is the publisher’s name clearly indicated on the journal’s homepage?
– Can you contact the publisher by phone, e-mail or post?

Does the journal provide clear information on its peer review process?

Are the articles indexed in databases that you use yourself? e.g. Web of Science, Scopus?

Is it clear what costs will be incurred?

– Does the journal’s website explain what payments are made for and when they are billed?

Open Access significantly promotes the visibility of research. But Open Access has also become a new business model that attracts dubious providers. These send out a wide range of invitations to the scientific community with initially low rates for the publication of articles for “feeding”. There is no review process, but high item costs later. In other cases the articles are no longer available after a short time or they are not activated despite payment. In addition, these journals, also known as predatory journals or robbery journals, are generally not evaluated in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. It’s unfortunate for anyone who wants to pursue a scientific career. By the way, there are similar mechanisms for congress invitations!

Do you have any questions? Send us an email to openaccess@tuhh.de

 

Expect Some Noise

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 sockets
Dear students,

starting Wednesday, 2nd November 2016, it will be a bit louder in the library, because the new sockets at the walls will be installed! This will last  until Friday …
In the evenings there will be no construction work!

This will take us a step closer to optimized power supply for your mobile devices!

In case of need, please pick up your earplugs at the information desk!

Thank you for your understanding!!

Secure digital research data for the future

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The TUHH as an university of technology has the mission to develop technology for people. The university TUHH offers research and education at a high academic level. For the future development and competitiveness in the international context, the TUHH must participate in the discussion on Open Access for research results and research data. Open Access can result in a higher quality of scientific results, better visibility and greater discussion within the scientific community and a better international cooperation. Funding sources as DFG and EU already require open access availability of research results. Hamburg has just launched a prestudy for Hamburg Open Archive, the platform for Open Access in Hamburg.

TUHH adopted the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) recommendations to ensure “Good Scientific Practice” and also the DFG “Guidelines for handling research data“. In this context, we would like to collect requirements and needs for research data management at TUHH.  Research data in this survey is defined as raw data (measured data, source code, simulation results, image data, etc.) on which research results and publications are based.

The TUHH survey about Research Data on behalf of the Präsidium of TUHH is based on the already carried out surveys of the Humboldt University (2013) and the Technische Universität Darmstadt (2015). Participation is voluntary and anonymously possible in German and English. The Scientific Staff and the DV-Beauftragte have been invited by mail to participate in the survey. In case we missed anyone interested at TUHH, please send a short mail to the library. Thank you so much!

The survey is online until 8/15/2016.

For questions, please contact the library or the President’s Research Department.

Goodies for Sternenbrücke

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Logo Kinderhospiz Sternebrücke

Again many hands from the TUHH have tackled to support Milli Antolagic when baking cookies and producing truffles as well as homemade jam. As in previous years, they will sale all this delicacies for the benefit of the children’s hospice Sternenbrücke on Wednesday, 11/25/2015, from 09:00 clock in the library.

Early come ensures a successful shopping!

We ask for your understanding if on Wednesday the library will be a bit more noisy!

Sustainability – what is that to me ??

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On the occasion of the 1st Sustainability Day at TUHH, the TUHH library contributes to, a few words about the TUHH library striving for sustainability.

Nature in town

Roof greening at TUHH library

As a library, we contribute to various fields of sustainability already:

You, our users behave resource-friendly by borrowing books, since printed books are used repeatedly. We offer downloads and scanning options, additionally we lend USB sticks. This may help to use less paper.

The roof of our building, occupied in 1991, is planted on all three levels. The compact shelving in the stack efficiently saves space when storing printed books. The rotunda brings a lot of brightness inside the building – in some times also a little too much heat. Since the end of 2012 new LED lights along the window front have brought more light to the workplaces at approximately the same power consumption. At the end of the opening times, our Internet computers turn off automatically in the Reading Room. The internal office workplaces use particularly durable printer with the label “Energy Star”. We have already recycled printer cartridges for many years.

And of course we have other goals for the near future : Would you support us in the separation of waste from packaging, paper and residual waste? To realise somewhat more complicated will be a modern management of lighting in the reading area.