Publishing
We can advise and support you in publishing your dissertation and other research findings.
Open Access publishing
We advise doctoral candidates at Freie Universität Berlin on all aspects of Open Access publishing:
- Open Access publishing models
- Finding a suitable publication venue
- Funding criteria and financing
- Creative Commons licenses
- ORCID iD
- Publishing dissertations
- Secondary publications
Contact: open-access@fu-berlin.de
Publication strategies for scholars in the humanities
Whether you need to find subject-specific publication channels during your doctoral studies or publication options at a specialist publisher for the monograph of your dissertation – our workshops support you in developing your own publication strategies.
Refubium, Freie Universität Berlin’s institutional repository, is a service of the University Library and enables university members to publish academic papers and research data electronically. We provide doctoral candidates with comprehensive advice on publishing via Refubium in close cooperation with the doctoral offices of the individual departments.
Our services include:
- Advice on the dissertation submission process
- Rights clearance for cumulative dissertations
- Arranging publishing contracts for the first publication of the dissertation via Refubium
- Examining your publications in anticipation of secondary publication
- Reviewing publishing contracts and image rights
- Financing Open Access publications via the publication fund and institutional memberships
- Publishing research data
Contact:
- Electronic doctoral theses: dissonline@ub.fu-berlin.de
- Scholarly publications and student theses: edocs@ub.fu-berlin.de
- Research data: kontakt@refubium.fu-berlin.de
Doctoral candidates are obliged to make their dissertations available to the wider academic community by providing copies for circulation.
The Dissertations Department at the University Library collects all copies of dissertations written at Freie Universität Berlin that candidates are required to submit in accordance with the doctoral regulations of their program. Depending on the standards set out in the relevant doctoral regulations, the dissertation can be submitted in print form (e.g., photo print, review copy) and/or on microfiche.
Our services:
- Advice on the dissertation submission process
- Information on the formal specifications that apply to dissertations
- Information on publishing dissertations electronically
- Information on cumulative dissertations
Further information is available on the Dissertations Department website.
Contact: hsstelle@ub.fu-berlin.de
The university bibliography lists publications by members of Freie Universität Berlin and is available as a cumulative online bibliography via the library portal Primo.
You can document your publications for the Freie Universität Berlin University Bibliography using the “System zur Erfassung der Publikationen” (SEP).
Further information is available here: University Bibliography
Contact: unibib@ub.fu-berlin.de