Publish with Universitätsverlag Potsdam
You can publish your research in books and journals at the university press in accordance with Diamond Open Access criteria. A Diamond Open Access publication is a quality-assured, scientific open access publication that has no charges for authors, editors or readers. The publication costs are covered by the university.
If you have questions or if you would like detailed advice, please feel free to contact us.
Contact person: Marco Winkler
What can you publish?
- Monographs
- Edited volumes and conference proceedings, Festschriften
- Journals
- Dissertations and habilitation treatises
- scholarly publications in other formats
Publishing conditions
- current university membership of author/editor
- author licence their work with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence
- the published manuskript has undergone a quality assurance process that is standard in the discipline and has been documented in accordance with the PRISM-Standard
- the manuscript has been edited and complies with the formal requirements of the Universitätsverlag
Our Services at a Glance
• layout for books, journals and book series
• technical and content quality assurance
• supervision of the technical production process
• we can recommend professional proofreaders, if necessary
• design and production of marketing materials
• publications provided with ISBN/ISSN, URN, DOI and ORCID
• registration at the bibliography of the German National Library/Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)
• upload of full text to Google Books
• listing in the Directory of Deliverable Books/Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher (VLB)
• publication of the online version as well as permanent archiving on our institutional repository.
• distribution via our web shop and the bookselling trade
• reprints at the expense of Universitätsverlag ensure long-term availability in the bookselling trade
• shipping of deposit copies and distribution via publication exchange, if applicable
• sending review copies to specialist journals
• integrating two copies to the collection of Potsdam University Library
• registration at the library catalogue and the University Bibliography
Universitätsverlag Potsdam is a member of the AG Universitätsverlage (Working Group of University Presses).
The working group is an association of university presses and publishing service providers from German-speaking countries that offer publishing services and are affiliated with a research institution.
The membership criteria include especially quality assurance according to scientific standards and the support of Open Access.
The publications of the Universitätsverlag Potsdam are included in the joint Catalog of the AG Universitätsverlage.
