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Open Monograph Press at
Heidelberg University

2. Open Access at Heidelberg University:
• 14 Open Access Journals (running on PKP’s
OJS platform)
• HeiDOK (open access green repository)
• Heidelberg historic literature – digitized
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3. “The devil ’s work”
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Heidelberger Totentanz. Heidelberg:
Heinrich Knoblochtzer, no later than 1488
Mondwahrsagebuch.
Heidelberg (?), ca. 1400

4. “We”
• Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a
Global Context: The Dynamics of
Transculturality”
• University Library
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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 English
c) 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

7. The Team:
- Heidelberg University
Library
- Editorial Office and
Heidelberg Research
Architecture
- Public Knowledge Project
- Chair of Enterprise and
Information Systems
(University of Mannheim)
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8. The standard:
• Quality
• Sustainability
• Long-term availability
• Discoverability
The workflow:
• Step 1: Editorial production on OMP
• Step 2: Layout production
• Step 3: Hosting and publication
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9. • 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
LAYOUT
process
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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