Gutenberg Open Science is the open access repository of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the primary platform for making your publications and research data freely accessible.
Publishing on the repository makes your research visible worldwide and permanently accessible to the scientific community without access restrictions, in line with JGU’s Open Access Policy and the commitment of the Rhine-Main Universities (RMU) to open science.
Gutenberg Open Science is also the digital publication service for dissertations at JGU and can be used to publish collections of individual contributions as an anthology, for example conference proceedings.
Our service provides the following benefits: Your publications are preserved for the long term. They are assigned a permanent address (DOI), and the rights for subsequent use are clearly defined (we recommend the CC BY license). All publications are automatically indexed in the University Library’s research portal and in JGU’s research information system (Gutenberg Research Elements), and are submitted to the German National Library for central indexing.
Publications on Gutenberg Open Science are also indexed in services such as BASE, OpenAIRE, and OpenAlex, which are important for Open Access publications.
The repository is DINI-certified and therefore meets the requirements of funding agencies for Open Access publications. The repository software is open source and is continuously updated and further developed with the involvement of Mainz University Library.
First or second publication?
You can use Gutenberg Open Science for both primary and secondary publication. If your publication has already been published by a publisher or elsewhere, it is often possible to make it immediately available on Gutenberg Open Science. The prerequisite for this is that you have published Open Access with the publisher. Gutenberg Open Science can also be used in many other cases by exercising your right to secondary publication. Read our tips for authors on these topics.
Publishing Your Work Made Easy
Go to Gutenberg Open Science. Once you have logged into your JGU account at your workspace, you will automatically be given access to your personal “My Open Science” area, so that you can immediately begin entering data. In the 'Help & Instructions' drop-down menu, you will find detailed information about the publishing process.
You can also easily upload your publication to Gutenberg Open Science through your profile page in the research information system, Gutenberg Research Elements.
