Research, Teaching and Publishing
Publishing doctoral theses
If you are a doctoral student at the University of Bonn needing to get your doctoral thesis published, these web pages will tell you all you need to know.
The bonndoc publication server
Members of the University of Bonn can use bonndoc to publish academic publications for free.
Digital Humanities
We can help you with questions about tools, methods and standards relating to Digital Humanities, the USL Bonn’s range of consulting and other services for researchers.
Open Access Service Center
Everything you need to know about open access, from current funding options through to tips on choosing the right usage license.
Research data management
The Research Data Service Center can assist you with all aspects of research data management, from planning and proposing research projects to publishing and archiving your research data.
Specialist advice
The team of subject librarians can give you wide-ranging specialist advice on things like literature searches, reference management and requesting the purchase of new items.
Staying up to date
In science and academia, it’s important to keep abreast of the latest developments in your research field at all times. We give you several ways you can do this.
Many databases, including SciFindern and Web of Science, let you find the original references for an article as well as articles that cite a specific work. This enables you to research both retrospectively and prospectively for citations in a paper that you have found.
Many databases allow you to set up automatic notifications, although you will usually need to register beforehand.
These notifications will then tell you when selected authors have published something new, when there are new hits for your saved search queries or when selected publications are cited, for example.
Some databases, such as PubMed, also let you set up RSS feeds, which check specific online resources for changes and let you know straight away. In the case of PubMed, for example, these might be new hits for a specific search query.
You can use RSS feeds via dynamic bookmarks or feed readers, one of which is included in the Zotero reference management software, for instance.