Support

Our institutional repository BORIS plays a central role in the yearly evaluation process of the University of Bern. BORIS also makes available research publications by the university's researchers in open access green. Researchers can also use BORIS for the visibility of their publications. We support you with the following topics:

• tie in your publication lists in your website.
• Data import
• Help with entering publications
• general support with handling BORIS

Should you have questions concerning your contracts with publishers, funders or authors that publish in your journal or book, write to us and we will support you in all legal concerns surrounding research data and open access (green and gold): openscience@ub.unibe.ch

Whenever you are getting ready to publish something and are unsure who holds the copyright to a text, image, video or data set; or if you would like to know what usage rights you have for your own publications; or if you want to ensure that you choose the best Creative Commons license for your Open Access publication, we can help: contact us at openscience@ub.unibe.ch.

You are thinking about founding a new scholarly journal or take over the editorship of an existing journal? You plan editing a book or even a book series? You have questions regards workflows, possibilities of financing, legalities or digital tools that can help with your work? We can help! openscience@ub.unibe.ch

The Open Access and Open Data mandates of different funding agencies, institutions and countries are constantly changing. We are happy to bring you up to date with the latest information regards your obligations and rights in all things Open Access and Open Data.

Many publishers charge Article Processing Charges (APCs) or Book Processing Charges (BPCs) for Open Access Gold publications. This means that authors pay a certain amount so that their publication is made available in Open Access. The spectrum of APC/BPC prices is large ranging from several hundred CHF to five-figure amounts. 

However, the parameters are constantly changing. Funding agencies adjust the amounts they are willing to pay for APCs and BPCs and institutional publishing funds have their limits. At the same time, publishers attempt to secure their profit margins. Between these conflicting poles it is quite tricky for researchers to find an acceptable and financially feasible path to publishing in Open Access.

Wie are happy to support you in your planning: openscience@ub.unibe.ch

Doctoral candidates at the University of Bern can publish their dissertation in Open Access on BORISTheses. Much of the necessary information on the procedure and uploading process can be found on our start page.  If you have further questions about how to publish your dissertation on BORIS Theses, please contact us at boristheses@ub.unibe.ch.

We put together a factsheet for doctoral candidates in the humanities and social sciences to help with the publication process of their dissertation. The document below contains tips and information regards revising and other steps in the manuscript development not only for Open Access publications but also for traditional books with publishers.