GMS Medizin – Bibliothek – Information (Jun 2009)
Nuancen in Grün: Betrieb eines institutionellen und disziplinären Repositoriums – Erfahrungen und Entwicklungen an der Saarländischen Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek / Shades of green: Maintaining both an institutional and a disciplinary repository – experiences and current developments at Saarland University and State Library
Abstract
Since the year 1999 Saarland University and State Library (Germany) is offering EPublishing services in the form of an Open Access repository. Due to its triple role as a University Library, a State Library and as the Special Subject Library for Psychology Saarland University and State Library separated its self-archiving-services into three different repositories. This article reflectsa) the experiences from the maintenance of both an institutional and a disciplinary repositoryb) current projects that want to make repositories more attractive for scientistsc) the development of alternatives for golden road publishing as an open access university press both for Saarland University and the Psychological community.
