Publishing

The publishing platform BOP Serials serves the publication of peer-reviewed open-access periodicals and series. BOP Books is primarily a platform for peer-reviewed, scholarly monographs, edited volumes, and book series.
Other open-access publications such as essay collections, working papers or reports can be published via our repository BORIS.
Publications should fulfill the requirements of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, which the University of Bern signed in 2007. 

Bern University Library recommends the use of the Creative-Commons-License CC-BY, which means anyone reusing the work is obligated to cite it. This license regulates the access to publications according to the requirements of national and international funding instruments, allows proper indexing and discoverability in databases and aggregation sites; it also facilitates text- and datamining.

The copyright remains with the author. BOP receives the right of first publication and a simple usage right that is unconstrained in terms of time and space in order to publish the work online and to distribute it via a print-on-demand service.

Authors have the right to enter other contracts for non-exclusive distribution of a version of the work as it is published by BOP. However, such a contract has to assure citation of the work's first place of publication, i.e. BOP.

Editors

Journals

BOP Serials offers technical and organisational support to local scholars who want to launch a new scholarly journal or migrate an established one from a publisher; BOP Serials only supports Open Access journals. Bern University Library hosts the publishing platform Open Journal Systems (OJS), which offers a sophisticated publishing management workflow from submission to peer-review, publication and archiving. 

The parameters of cooperation are defined in a contract between journal editors and Bern University Library.

Series

BOP also publishes regular academic publications that undergo a peer-review process. Series can either be hosted on BOP-Books that operates on the publishing platform OMP or they can be published via our repository BORIS.

The parameters of cooperation are defined in a contract between series editors and Bern University Library.

Identifiers

Publications on BOP receive the necessary identifiers:

• DOI (Digital Object Identifier): this serves as a unique marker of a digital document. Publications with a DOI are persistently discoverable and quotable 
• ISBN (International Standard Number for Books)
• ISSN (International Standard Nummer for Journals and Series)

Authors

If you have a single book-project which you would like to publish on BOP Books, please get in touch with the BOP Team: openaccess@ub.unibe.ch