Research & Publishing

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We advise you on the use of digital resources, methods and tools in the field of Digital Humanities.

Our services for working with research data.

We are gradually expanding our digital holdings via our Digitization Center.

We advise you on bibliometric key figures and carry out analyses for you.

At Tübingen University Library, open source products are always used and promoted in the communities in line with the open science concept. This includes not only financial support for the communities, but also active development of and development contributions to the tools used.
The software we develop is published in repositories under the UB Tübingen's Github organization account.
There, you can also find freely reusable contributions (so-called ground truth data) for the training of machine learning models for automated handwriting recognition or the recognition of older printed texts (Fraktur). Of course, the University Library uses corresponding free licenses for reusability by other parties.

You can publish your dissertation at the University Library in both printed and electronic form.

You can find all the details on our dissertation information page.

Tübingen University Press (TUP) and Tübingen Library Publishing (TLP) are the open access publishers of the University of Tübingen, which also enable printed editions of your works. While you can publish titles promptly with TLP, TUP offers you high quality standards by using a peer review process.

Contact: tupspam prevention@ub.uni-tuebingen.de and tlpspam prevention@ub.uni-tuebingen.de

Through the University Repository of the University of Tübingen, university members can publish scientific publications - including dissertations - online for free in the spirit of Open Access.

Related works, such as congress reports or volumes in a publication series, can be presented in so-called portals on their own overview page.

You can find more information on our page on the publication system.

As a member of the University of Tübingen, you can publish your own Open Access journal. The University Library provides a suitable platform with Tübingen Open Journals.

The Central Repository for Open Educational Resources of the Tübingen University Library provides open teaching and learning materials (open educational resources) from and for the universities of Baden-Württemberg.

Further information is also available in the explanatory film (German and English) on ZOERR.

The Tübingen Research Data Portal (FDAT) offers its researchers various services such as findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability of data. The necessary technical equipment for the long-term archiving and reuse of research data is also made available.

With the image database, the University Library offers a central image repository. This platform offers the opportunity to research, publish and archive image material for teaching and research purposes.

The Audio Archive contains the broadcast archive of Radio Micro-Europa, the former radio station of the University of Tübingen (until 2016) and the South Asia Digitization Project (Saath Saath). The broadcasts of Micro-Europa are freely accessible and can be listened to as MP3 files.

Based on contracts with various publishers, the University Library can offer reduced Article Processing Charges (APCs). This applies to members of the University of Tübingen including the University Hospital.

Framework agreements with external publishers

The University Library can award a financial grant from the Open Access Publication Fund for elibible articles.