Publication service provider

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Publication service providers provide individual services or services and contracts for work and services combined with one another in the production of publications . In addition to the very diverse range of service options for very different forms and types of publication, a distinction must also be made here between publication service providers who e.g. B. work as or for a book publisher , or those who provide services for the creation of self-publications .

To the subject

The compound publication service provider is made up of the two independent words “ publication ” and “ service ”, for which in this combination no terminological or lexical narrowing z. B. on a subset of the meanings of the word "publication" can be proven.

Publication service provider is not a protected professional title . Therefore, all persons or companies involved in the creation of publications can assign themselves to the term publication service provider or / and choose it as a self-designation to characterize their business model or their offer . It is irrelevant whether these people or companies offer services only for parts or sub-areas or for the entire production and distribution process of one or more forms of publication. Services for the creation and distribution of a publication may include a. content, design, technical (e.g. printing process), commercial and advertising nature.

Publication service providers would be companies like u. a. Film production companies , recording companies (colloquially record companies ), publishers or companies in the advertising industry as well as service providers for the creation of self-publications . Also, authorities have the publication service occur when institutional Selbstverlag z. B. Prepare and distribute official announcements in the sense of state public relations work . Individuals can describe themselves as publication service providers if they either provide (partial) services as employees of such companies or as freelance self-employed persons, e.g. B. as a graphic designer , proofreader , layouter , editor , literary agent , editor , sound engineer or translator .

Some documented uses of the term

Since there are currently neither academic papers nor any other relevant secondary source on the term “publication service provider” itself , some examples are listed below in which the term was either used as a self-designation or as a characterization of an activity or a business model.

Libraries, archives

Scientific libraries in particular also see themselves as “publication service providers ” if they use so-called repositories as a basic library tool and they also include so-called open access publication offers in the scope of services.

  • Roland Bertelmann ( Helmholtz Center Potsdam - German Research Center for Geosciences GFZ ) says: “ Repositories are now one of the basic tools used in libraries . Corresponding to this, numerous libraries have developed into publication service providers. "
  • And Anita Runge writes on the Internet platform Open Access To Gender Research of the Central Institution for the Promotion of Women and Gender Studies at the Free University of Berlin : “Then we got more specific about the special requirements for (Open Access) publication service providers from the point of view of interdisciplinary, inter- or . Discussed transdisciplinary research contexts. The focus was on aspects and performance features of a catalog of requirements for scientific publication service providers, especially with regard to the question of which (publishing) services can / should be provided by the researchers or the scientific institutions themselves in the future, what corresponding business models could look like and what the quality and professionalism of (self-organized) publication offers secured and - above all - can be convincingly conveyed. "

Self-publishing platforms

  • An online search on the website of the Börsenblatt , the “weekly magazine for the German book trade”, produced only two hits in August 2019, both of which related to self-publishing platforms .
  • The Hamburger Abendblatt means self-publishing platforms when it writes: "Publication service providers have been offering authors the opportunity to publish their books for several years - through all common distribution channels."

The following self-publishing platforms have been proven to use it to characterize your business model or to describe yourself as :

  • Books on Demand (characterization of the business model)
  • ruckzuckbuch.de (self-designation) - was one of several self-publishing platforms within the Monsenstein and Vannerdat publishing group that went bankrupt in 2016. At the beginning of 2013, the publishing group also launched the“FAIR public” certificate , the associated website of which was headed with a “Declaration of commitment for publication service providers and book-on-demand providers to obtain FAIR public certification”.
  • In a survey carried out jointly by buchreport and selfpublisherbibel.de among several self-publishing platforms, Monsenstein and Vannerdat (and unchallenged by their competitors) introduced the term “publication service provider” to characterize their business model as opposed to publishers .

Publishers

  • In a dissertation from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne , it says: " By nature, publishers are publication service providers."
  • In its Scientific Circular No. 2/2011, Freie Universität Berlin uses the term “publication service provider” as follows: “Publishing under your own responsibility is becoming more attractive again, new publication service providers appear, and publishers have to sharpen their range of services and the costs they incur on the author Pass on, justify more than before. ”According to this, publishers are assessed here as old publication service providers compared to the mentioned“ new publication service providers ” .
  • There is currently no evidence that publishers use or have used the term “publication service provider” as a self-designation.

In a broader sense

  • Peter Riedlberger asks in an article dated August 28, 2001 under Heise online : “Who needs publication service providers in the age of the Internet? And what do publishers do with specialist journals if none of the renowned scientists want to write for these journals anymore? "

literature

  • Tom van Endert : The Books on Demand Handbook. Materials - technology - full service packages (=  Edition Octopus , ruckzuckbuch.de ). 8th edition. Monsenstein and Vannerdat , Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-935363-61-7 (Note: The keywords given by the publisher for the book also include the term “publication service”).
  • Heinz Ludwig Arnold , Matthias Beilein (ed.): Literature business in Germany. 3rd edition, new version. edition text + kritik , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88377-996-6 , p. 280 ff.
  • Sandra Uschtrin, Michael Joe Küspert (ed.): Handbook for authors. Information and addresses from the German literature business and the media industry. 6th, completely revised and expanded edition. Uschtrin Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-932522-06-0 , p. 116 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Roland Bertelmann ( Helmholtz Center Potsdam - German Research Center for Geosciences GFZ ): Research data and new roles for scientific libraries ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Lecture at the specialist conference PubMan Days 2013 , which was organized in October 2013 by the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) in Munich; here see Bertelmann's lecture slide No. 25; PDF, accessed February 9, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / pubman-days.mpdl.mpg.de
  2. ↑ See Anita Runge: Workshop report: Future requirements for scientific publishing . On: Internet platform Open Access To Gender Research of the central institution for the promotion of women and gender studies at the Free University of Berlin ; Report of July 29, 2011; Retrieved February 9, 2014.
  3. ↑ Search term: publication service provider , search carried out on August 3, 2019, online at boersenblatt.net
  4. ↑ Thomas Andre: Dream of your own book: Become an author online in the Hamburger Abendblatt on August 27, 2011
  5. ↑ Books on Demand , see website (center): Search results for: "Publikationsdienstleistungs" , accessed online at bod.de
  6. ↑ ruckzuckbuch.de : Participate - How it works ( Memento from June 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), quote first line: "As one of the leading publication service providers ...", online at archiv-der-zeitzeugen.de
  7. ↑ Cf. declaration of self-commitment for publication service providers and book-on-demand providers to obtain FAIR public certification ( Memento from March 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), website of the FAIR public® initiative of the former Monsenstein and Vannerdat publishing house in Münster; online at fairoefflichen.de
  8. ↑ mmatting: Self Publishing in Germany: Fee models, e -book garbage and print , online since July 22, 2013 at selfpublisherbibel.de
  9. ↑ Patrick Sahle: Digital Editionsformen - On dealing with the tradition under the conditions of media change, Part 2: Findings, theory and methodology , BoD, Norderstedt 2013, PDF file, p. 102 of 292
  10. ↑ Scientific Circular No. 2/2011 of the Free University of Berlin , PDF file, p. 16 of 40
  11. ↑ Peter Riedlberger: Science strikes back , under Heise online from August 28, 2001