Thanks to technical support from the Center for Information Technology and Media Management (ZIM), the Passau University Library has been using the Open Journal Systems software since July 2015. This enables researchers at the University of Passau to publish their research results in journals that are immediately available via open access. Open Journal Systems can be used to carry out all the steps involved in publishing a journal.
If you are interested, please contact our Open Access team.
The University Library supports journal projects with the following services:
1. Hosting
- Provision of technical infrastructure by the ZIM
- Support with journal setup and web layout
2. Editorial advice
- Help with the conception and orientation of the journal
- Help with migration projects
- Quality assurance
- Metadata management
- Information about funding programs (contact the Research Support Department)
3. Training
- Coaching for editors or editorial teams
- Test environment
4. Visibility and discoverability
- Application for an ISSN
- Assignment of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs)
- Inclusion in the Passau search portal and the Bavarian Union Catalog
- Inclusion in the Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
- Findability in Google and Google Scholar
- Findability in the open access search engine BASE
- Support with inclusion in specialist databases
- Support with inclusion in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Indexing at article level
- Support with publicizing the journal
Journals
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Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice: Tutorials on Computational Approaches to the History and Diversity of Languages
Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice offers tutorials and discussion notes devoted to the topic of computer-assisted approaches to language history and diversity. The tutorials cover a broad range of topics, ranging from introductory notes on programming, via examples for data-sharing and re-use, up to code examples for complex analyses using software like Python and R.
