With Qucosa, the Saxon Document and Publication Server, the TU Dresden and the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB) offer their members and affiliates a powerful infrastructure for open access publications. Scientific articles and conference papers, which may already have been published in a journal requiring a license or by a publisher, as well as research reports, working papers, student (final) theses, dissertations and postdoctoral theses, digitized images, etc. can be published here.

Publishing on Qucosa offers scientists numerous advantages, such as the worldwide availability of full texts and long-term archiving of their publications, and the ability to cite with the help of a persistent identifier (e.g. URN, DOI) is permanently guaranteed. The electronic documents are bibliographically described with the help of structured metadata and indexed via national and international library catalogs, search engines and other reference tools, and can thus also be easily entered into the TU Dresden's in-house Research Information System (FIS).

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What is needed for publication on Qucosa?

• The complete electronic document in pdf file format (identification-free and without security restrictions).
• Bibliographic information/metadata (including document type, title, author(s), keywords, abstract)
• Written consent for electronic publishing on Qucosa

Service offered by the SLUB:

In accordance with the recommendations of the German Council of Science and Humanities, authors may also publish the documents they have written on a document server in addition, possibly after a retention period, provided that the copyrights are respected. Many scientific publishers allow their authors additional open access publication on university document servers such as Qucosa. The SHERPA-RoMEO list offers you the possibility to inform yourself about the conditions of different journals according to which open access publication is possible.

To make it easier for you to publish, SLUB will take care of the rights check and the posting of the document on Qucosa for you.

Send your publications that you would like to publish online to the Qucosa team at SLUB - either individually, as a package or as a publication list.

You can find more information about the service offers around Qucosa and Open Access on the SLUB web pages.