From the development of a data management plan as part of the application for third-party funding, to technical storage options during the project, to support in the search for suitable (subject) repositories for the publication of your research data: the C3RDM offers you comprehensive support and advice on research data management in all phases of your research project.
We are a part of it - just like the Regional Computing Centre (RRZK) and Department 7 Research Management.

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The lifespan of digital content has so far been shorter than that of its physical originals - this poses new challenges for us as a memory institution.

With our digitisation projects, we are continuously working on making our old stock available in digital form to science, research and the interested public. In order to fulfil our mission of long-term archiving, we have participated as a pilot library in the project "Long-term availability for universities".

Under the leadership of the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (hbz), the project was launched in 2017 with the aim of introducing a state-wide solution for the long-term availability of digital materials. With the help of the Rosetta software we developed a workflow for us which enables the automated transfer of retro-digitised material into a digital archive. The pilot project was completed in 2018.

We are currently establishing the workflow for digitised monographs. Further workflows must be developed for non-book materials or even born-digital materials.

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In short

SIS Philosophy is a project managed by the University and City Library of Cologne in close cooperation with the Department of Philosophy and the Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) of the University of Cologne. The SIS Philosophy is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation).

Our goals

We want to provide fast and direct access to special technical literature and research-relevant information for scientific needs, independent of location. It is our aim to cover the entire spectrum of philosophy in historical and systematic terms:

1. We acquire - according to a profile agreed upon with the philophical community - fee-based primary and secondary literature from Germany and abroad. In doing so, we focus on the field of e-media.
2. We will retrospectively digitise and make available copyright-free specialist literature, especially editions that are not yet available in electronic form.
3. We offer central access to philosophical research resources freely available on the Internet.
4. For this purpose, we are setting up a portal which will bring together all the above-mentioned data sources under one web interface and at the same time - as a subject-specific communication infrastructure - will serve to increase the visibility and networking of researchers and their research projects.

Cooperations

In implementing this work programme and developing further innovative services, the interests and needs of philosophical research in Germany will be reflected above all by the intensive involvement of the specialist representatives of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie (DGPhil) and the Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie (GAP) as scientific partners and "resonance spaces".

Key data on the SIS Philosophy

• Sponsor: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
• Start: May 2018
• Funding volume: EUR 1.2 million for three years
• Project partners: Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Cologne
• the SIS Philosophy replaces the former Special Subject Collection (SSG) Philosophy, which was the responsibility of the University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg until 2013.

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In short:

SocioHub, the Specialised Information Service, is jointly developed by the University and City Library of Cologne (UCL) and GESIS (Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences). This service is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). Due to its long-standing support of the DFG programme "Special Subject Collection Social Sciences", the UCL has very strong expertise in sociological literature supply as well as an extremely extensive stock of social science literature. GESIS is the largest German infrastructure facility for the social sciences, providing research-based services for all process steps of social science projects.

Our goal:

With the SocioHub, we want to provide a customised tool that can be fluently integrated into the day-to-day work of the sociological specialist community and thus saves work and time.

The advantages of SocioHub:

• Extensive research offer
  With SocioHub, the central entry page for research communication and information supply, users benefit from a wide-ranging research offer for sociologically relevant information. In addition, they can create their own external presence for themselves or their research teams in order to present research achievements or publications to the sociological community, for example.
• Support in everyday research with the help of various tools
  Working together in research groups, exchanging project content and news, creating joint projects and tools such as calendars, publication lists, news feeds, joint text creation, file storage, forums or polls are just a few ways to make everyday research easier for users. Soon SocioHub will also be equipped with a self-archiving service, which will enable users to make their own publications easily available as Open Access publications via the Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR).

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This element is part of the development project of the Cologne Competence Center for Research Data Management (C3RDM). The aim is to ensure that all research data published at the University of Cologne is recorded in a central database of references and thus internationally searchable. These data will also be included in the planned university bibliography and the planned research information system and will thus also be available for the university's reporting system.

The aim here is to establish a central reference instrument for the research data produced at the university. The focus of this database will initially be on those research data that have been or will be made publicly available after the completion of a research project. This will include both those research data that are made directly available at the university and those research data that are accessible as part of a supra-regional subject-specific repository (e.g. at GESIS for social science research data).

This project is thus directly related to the subproject "Object Publications" within the planned project "Implementation of the KDSF Core Data Set Research", which is also located at the UCL. The research core data set provides for the verification of published research data (as a special case of publications).

It is important for the external presentation of the university to provide evidence of the publication activities of its scientists. With the project University Biography we are creating a central service for this purpose.

KUPS - Basis of the university bibliography

Our Cologne University Publication Server (KUPS) was set up and developed by us two decades ago to make the growing number of digital texts published at the university permanently accessible. Now KUPS is being expanded to include the possibility of referencing scientific publications in the form of purely bibliographic data without full text. Only if as many authors as possible participate, even beyond the next generation of scholars, will the academic productivity of the University of Cologne become fully visible.

Expansion of the university bibliography

Authors can enter data and works independently after a one-time registration at KUPS. But also central offices at the institute, chair, seminar can use the input
on behalf of the scientists.

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Open Access - the free transfer of knowledge:

Whether in the provision of literature or from the authors' point of view: we offer the University of Cologne its own Open Access solutions such as KUPS and also participate financially in Open Access initiatives of individual disciplines or the nationwide DEAL consortium.

Open Access initiatives at a glance >>

In cooperation with the Institute for German Language and Literature II (IDSL II), the Institute of Criminology and the Zukunftsstrategie Lehrer*innenbildung (ZuS) we are establishing three Open Access journals. We are responsible for the technical support and implementation of these journals. For this purpose we are using the free software Open Journal Systems (OJS), the world's best-known software for managing and publishing scientific journals. OJS can be used to map the entire publication process from submission and review to publication and subsequent indexing.
The projects of IDSL II and the Institute of Criminology are funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

With the experience we gain from supervising these projects, we will develop a new publication service for you and your institute. Contact us - we will help you with your foundation of a new Open Access journal.

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The PlagStop.NRW project aims to develop digital services for the identification and prevention of plagiarism for teachers and students. Seven universities have joined forces under the umbrella of the Digital University NRW for this purpose. The Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences is responsible for project management and coordination.

In addition to the implementation and evaluation of plagiarism detection software at the participating universities, the project consists of the following three work packages:

1. Guidelines for the operation of plagiarism detection software in higher education institutions
2. Preparation of materials for plagiarism prevention
3. Legal opinion to examine the possibility of a cross-university database

As part of the project, the plagiarism detection software OURIGINAL is to be introduced at the University of Cologne, tested by staff and evaluated by those responsible for the project.

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Results of the 1st workshop

In June, the 1st workshop on "Experiences and needs in dealing with plagiarism detection software" took place. We have published the results of this workshop on our project page (in German).

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The UCL is developing a digital publication platform for collaborative writing and open peer review in the social sciences as part of the DFG project SOCIOS.

The platform uses the potential of open science to achieve faster and more flexible publication results in social science discourse in a fair, sustainable and quality-assured manner. SOCIOS thus stands for open scientific communication in the social sciences: open pre-review manuscripts, open participation, open identities, open interaction, open reviews and comments.

The service of the UCL is realised in cooperation with four social science information services (FID) - FID Sociology (SocioHub), FID Political Science (POLLUX), FID Social and Cultural Anthropology (EVIFA) and FID Criminology.

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