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Open Monograph Press at Heidelberg University

Open Access at Heidelberg University:• 14 Open Access Journals (running on PKP’s OJS

platform)• HeiDOK (open access green repository)• Heidelberg historic literature – digitized

Semper Apertus: OMP at Heidelberg University

“The devil ’s work”

Semper Apertus: OMP at Heidelberg University

Heidelberger Totentanz. Heidelberg: Heinrich Knoblochtzer, no later than 1488

Mondwahrsagebuch.Heidelberg (?), ca. 1400

“We”• Cluster of Excellence

“Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality”

• University Library

Semper Apertus: OMP at Heidelberg University

Semper Apertus: OMP at Heidelberg University

Pilot project: Heidelberg Studies in Transculturality• Open Access book series• Produced entirely at HU• Authors: international PhD candidates whose

dissertation is a) relevant to the field of transcultural studies b) written in Englishc) outstanding quality

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Publish the dissertation …then you get your degree… …which you need to get a job…

Background to Heidelberg’s first OA book series

The Team:- Heidelberg University Libr

ary- Editorial Office and

Heidelberg Research Architecture

- Public Knowledge Project - Chair

of Enterprise and Information Systems (University of Mannheim)

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The standard:• Quality• Sustainability• Long-term availability• DiscoverabilityThe workflow:• Step 1: Editorial production on OMP• Step 2: Layout production• Step 3: Hosting and publication

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• Runs on OMP• Manages all stages of manuscript development:

- Submission- Peer review- Rewrite assessment- Copy-edit and formatting

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Step 1: Editing

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Template Copy-edit Rule-Database

Fair-copy(docx)

Pdf, html, epub

LAYOUTprocess

Step 2: Layout

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The layout process

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• Hosting OMP • Indexing• Marketing• Distribution • Long-term archiving• Managing print-on-demand and/or freemium

Step 3: Publication

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