Open Access is important because it makes the results of publicly funded scientific research immediately accessible and reusable free of charge and without procurement costs. With open access publications, the exploitation rights remain with the authors and are not exclusively assigned to a publisher.
Benefits:
- Increased visibility of the publications and for the authors
- Faster and free access for users
- Legal protection of potentially extensive re-usability
- Good findability via search engines and reference services
- Promotion of international and interdisciplinary collaboration
- Free access to publicly funded research results
- Accelerated communication and discussion of research results
By signing the Berlin Declaration, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences has committed itself to Open Access and encourages its members to make publications freely accessible via Open Access. You can read more about this in the HFT Open Access Policy.
The HFT Library and the Institute of Applied Research work hand in hand to implement Open Access.
The HFT Library offers all HFT members the opportunity to publish their scientific works (e.g. scientific articles, dissertations or theses) free of charge on the university's own publication platform HFTor (HFT Open Repository). In addition, HFTor enables the permanent verification and accessibility of university publications with and without full text.
HFTor ensures high visibility of publications via search services such as Google Scholar, BASE, DNB.
In HFTor you can get an overview of documents according to specific classification criteria (e.g. document type) and the most recently published documents.
HFTor also serves as a university bibliography - a record of the university's research output.
HFT Library offers following services for university members:
- Insight into the range of publications at the university
- DOI allocation
- Open Access: refresh basic knowledge and provide helpful information on the topic
- Consulting and support on open access publishing
- Support for researchers/publishers with administrative/organizational tasks
- Consulting on financing open access publications
Further useful information on publishing and Open Access at the HFT can be found here.
You can send your requests to hftor@hft-stuttgart.de or get in touch with the contact persons listed below.
Persistent identifiers (PIDs) are important because they provide unique and persistent identification for researchers, scientific institutions, digital objects such as publications, documents, research data or resources. PIDs prevent confusion caused by references to outdated or displaced resources and contribute to the long-term integrity and traceability of digital information.
The HFT Library recommends following non-commercial PID systems
Would you like to allocate a DOI for your publication?
Send your request with the subject "DOI allocation" to hftor@hft-stuttgart.de
| Name & Position | E-Mail & Telephone | |
|---|---|---|
| Head of Library | +49 711 8926 2930 | 2/037.1 |
| Deputy library management | +49 711 8926 2929 | 2/024 |
| Academic staff member / research management | +49 711 8926 2336 | 7/034 |
| Managing Director Research Management | +49 711 8926 2973 | 7/035 |