Qucosa

Qucosa (abbreviation for Quality Content of Saxony ) is the document and publication server of academic libraries in Saxony. It has been online since 2009 and sees itself as part of the international open access movement.

Logo of the Qucosa project

history

Qucosa emerged from the university font servers of the Saxon universities and colleges. These offers were limited to their institution, they were not compatible with each other, and a lack of staff and increasingly scarce finances caused further development to stagnate.

In 2008 succeeded the SLUB Dresden , ERDF -means for a multi-tenant winning Saxon overall solution. Maintenance and further development of the server should take place at the SLUB, the contributing institutions should work in separate areas and yet be presented under a common interface.

Facts

In addition to the SLUB Dresden , the following institutions are participating in the project (as of May 2013):

As of October 2018, 25,000 documents of various types had been published on Qucosa.

Concerns, implementation, possible uses

Supported by the academic libraries in the Free State of Saxony and co-financed by the European Union as part of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Qucosa enables all interested authors to publish, record and long-term archiving of documents from science and business free of charge. All documents in Qucosa are listed in the SLUB catalog and can be found online in the long term thanks to the future-proof URN . Qucosa documents can also be searched for using international search engines such as Google Scholar or BASE .

Dissertations and habilitation theses, theses (bachelor's, diploma, master's, and master's theses), study papers, research reports, proceedings and conference contributions (InProceedings), preprints, books and parts of books (InBook), journal volumes and booklets are published in electronic form, Magazine articles, lectures, lectures, compositions and other publications.

Qucosa is by no means just about first releases. Many publishers advocate parallel open access publishing on document servers, so that authors can also publish the documents they have written on the document server, sometimes after a blocking period, in compliance with copyright law .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Roland Pohl: Qucosa: Quality Content of Saxony . In: BIS: The magazine of the libraries in Saxony . 2010/1

↑ Michaela Voigt: We are five digits! : 10,000 documents on Qucosa . In: BIS: The magazine of the libraries in Saxony . 2013/1

↑ Cynthia Meißner: SLUB4OpenAccess: Published free of charge and freely available worldwide - Scientific articles on Qucosa. In: SLUB-Dresden.de. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), October 20, 2018, accessed on February 22, 2019 .

↑ Qucosa home page

↑ Homepage of the SLUB catalog

↑ Open Access publishing with the SLUB ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2013 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. @1@ 2
↑ http://www.qucosa.de/ueber-qucosa/

[1] Roland Pohl: Qucosa: Quality Content of Saxony . In: BIS: The magazine of the libraries in Saxony . 2010/1

[2] Michaela Voigt: We are five digits! : 10,000 documents on Qucosa . In: BIS: The magazine of the libraries in Saxony . 2013/1

[3] Cynthia Meißner: SLUB4OpenAccess: Published free of charge and freely available worldwide - Scientific articles on Qucosa. In: SLUB-Dresden.de. Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library (SLUB), October 20, 2018, accessed on February 22, 2019 .

[4] Qucosa home page

[5] Homepage of the SLUB catalog