BORIS Publications

Members of the University of Bern log in with the SWITCH edu-ID. The SWITCH edu-ID must be linked to the campus account.

Members of the Inselspital log in with the Insel account.

For detailed instructions around BORIS, please consult the BORIS manual or contact the BORIS team.

Yes. All metadata and files are checked by the BORIS team or the editors before publication and supplemented or corrected if necessary. The aim is to ensure that the data are as error-free as possible and that the publications can be made publicly accessible in compliance with legal requirements.

As the author of the publication, you can correct the item. Otherwise, please contact the BORIS team.

Since BORIS is indexed by search engines such as Google Scholar and BASE, uploading freely accessible full texts to BORIS increases the findability and visibility of your publications. This also increases the chances of being cited by other researchers.

All content is permanently stored in BORIS, so that your texts are accessible here in the long term.

Furthermore, you act in accordance with the Open Access Policy of the University of Bern and the Swiss National Strategy on Open Access and thereby contribute to the free scientific exchange.

Please upload your accepted manuscript, the so-called post-print or AAM, as well as the published version of your article in BORIS The texts will be made accessible by the BORIS team according to the second publication rights.

The guidelines of the publishers and journals can be found in the SHERPA/RoMEO.

Texts that are not allowed to be made freely accessible can also be uploaded to BORIS. They are then exclusively available to registered users.

Pre-print (submitted version): Version the author initially submitted to the publisher. This version has not yet gone through peer-review. Please note: pre-prints should be uploaded to subject-specific repositories such as https://arxiv.org.

Post-print (accepted manuscript, author accepted manuscript AAM): Version after peer-review and accepted for publication. The content is equivalent to the published version. Post-prints can usually be made freely available – immediately or after an embargo period.

Publisher PDF, version of record: Published version in the final layout showing page numbers and the publisher’s logo. 

As the operator of BORIS, the university is responsible for compliance with the distribution rights of the texts. For this reason, the BORIS team checks on behalf of the university whether a secondary publication in BORIS is permissible. Provided that the researchers do not intentionally violate any rights and do not violate the BORIS guidelines, the University of Bern will protect them from legal claims arising from the use of BORIS.

The content of the text, however, will not be checked. The copyright responsibility towards third parties remains with the author.

If there are indications of copyright infringement, we will remove the corresponding text from open access. See also the Repository Policies for BORIS.

BORIS has no formal restriction to certain data formats. However, only certain formats can be indexed and their long-term accessibility guaranteed.

The following formats are recommended:

• Texts: XML, ODT, or PDF/A.
• Images: TIFF and PNG
• Audio files: WAV, OGG, and AIF
• Video files:  MP4

Since DOC, DOCX and JPEG are formats subject to proprietary restrictions, their long-term accessibility depends on support from rights holders.

In consultation with the university management, the following publication types are accepted in BORIS:

• Articles in scientific journals
• Books: monographs, edited volumes, source editions, textbooks, reference works
• Book contributions: Book chapters, chapters in reference works
• Reports, legal opinions
• Conference contributions: Presentations, posters, abstracts, papers
• working papers
• Qualification papers: Dissertations, Habilitations
• Editorships of journals, book series and working paper series
• Newspaper and magazine articles
• Interviews in newspapers, radio and television
• Research data
• Audiovisual materials: audio files, videos, etc.
• Patents

Not included:

• Bachelor's and master's theses
• Expert and supervisory activities for bachelor's and master's theses and examinations
• Organizing, conducting, leading conferences, panel discussions, workshops, etc.
• Newspaper articles in which the employee of the University of Bern is quoted (exception: entire interviews)

Please refer to the glossary of recording guidelines in ILIAS for assistance in recording the different types of publications.

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributer ID) is a numeric identifier that allows authors to be uniquely identified. This makes it possible to assign texts and data to the correct authors even if they have the same name or different spellings of the same name. More information about the use of ORCID in BORIS can be found on the website of the University Library of Bern under Identifiers or in ILIAS Identifiers oder in ILIAS.

The use of ORCID in BORIS is recommended because this identifier is supported by many publishers, databases and by the personnel database of the University of Bern. Instructions for activating ORCID in BORIS can also be found in ILIAS.

Publication lists from BORIS can be integrated into websites, the following options are possible:

• Link directly to BORIS. To do this, copy the link from the BORIS search to the website.
• Integrate the desired publication list from BORIS directly into the website. Please refer to the BORIS manual on Ilias.

The submission deadline for the 2021 evaluation data has not been determined at this time.

The submission deadline for the 2020 Faculty of Medicine evaluation data was January 10, 2021.

Please refer to the Website of Faculty of Medicine, as well as the  2021 Data Entry annual schedule.

For all other faculty, the submission deadline was April 1, 2021.

For questions regarding research evaluation, please contact:

If you have any questions, please contact the BORIS team.

Individual introductions to BORIS take place on demand and are conducted online. Please contact the BORIS team.

For members of the Faculty of Medicine and the Inselspital, introductory courses in BORIS are held as group courses in October and November. These are held online and, if required, also in presence form. We also offer individual question and answer sessions on publication entry.

Dates will be published in due time.