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Boolean Operators AND, OR, NOT

When you use the Simple Search, all terms are combined by AND automatically. For a more tightly focused search you may use the Boolean Operators to combine different search terms.

AND: The document has to contain all search terms.

OR: The document has to contain one of the search terms. This function broadens your search and is recommended, when there are different terms for the same meaning.

article OR paper

NOT: This function works excluding and might be useful to reduce a large result list: Documents, which contain the one term, may not contain the other.

article NOT paper

The Boolean Operators work for the Advanced Search as well. You may use them to combine different search terms within one search field. For example, to search for documents of the author "Doe" in the years 2002 or 2003, use the query:

Author: Doe
Year: 2002 OR 2003

Wildcards

In the field 'Search:', you may use the symbols '*' and '?' as wildcards. Use them in place of a character or characters that are unknown or that may differ. You cannot use them in front of a word or search string.

Example 1: chemi* finds chemical but also chemistry or chemist.

Example 2: licen?e finds licence and license.

You may use double quotes (") to search for phrases.

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I have some more questions - whom shall I contact?

General:

Julia Wiesner
Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften
Hochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel
Bibliothek - Zentrum für Medien- und Informationsdienstleistungen <916>
Am Exer 8 b, 38302 Wolfenbüttel

Tel.: +49 5331 939-18070
E-Mail: opus@ostfalia.de

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Publishingprocess - What do i have to consider?

Please click on the publication link on the start page.
First you are requested to choose a document type. Right beneath that you can upload your document files. Having done so you may click on "send". What follows now is the actual form. You have to fill in data about your publication here (so called metadata), which is used to describe your work in catalouges and other bibliographic directories. Describe the document you want to upload using the categories and fields on the publication form. Depending on the document type, some of these fields are mandatory and therefore have to be filled in. Please describe your document as clear as possible. If you are unsure what to fill in certain form fields, you can point the cursor on a field and an explaining help text will be shown.
After you have finished the form, all data will be displayed once again for a check-up and you then have three possibilities: you can correct them if necessary, add your document to a collection or simply safe it directly.

Note:

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What's metadata?

Metadata can be defined as

• data describing one or more ressources
or as
• data associated with an object and describing it

Basically metadata is describing documents, objects or services and contains information about their content, structure or form. More abstractly metadata is a description of data or "data about data". Bibliographic data sets and catalog entries in library catalogs can be seen as a kind of metadata.

This repository is using metadata in the Dublin Core Metedata Element Set (short Dublin Core (DC)) which has fifteen basic elements. Dublin Core is the result of international efforts to reach a collective consensus in describing electronic objects (in the broadest sense). The Library of Congress (LoC), the Online Cataloging Library Center (OCLC) and several national libraries are dealing with Dublin Core in many projects and are close to introduce the system respectively.

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What's to regard if I plan to publish my work by a professional publisher or have done that already?

In most cases this is no problem. Please ensure in any case, if your publisher allows a parallel publication! To do that you can use the SHERPA/ROMEO list.

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What about licenses for my publication?

Authors can choose which terms of use must be regarded for their publication. These terms are defined in a license. This repository supports different licenses, from which you can choose one (i.e. Creative Commons Licenses/).

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Policies

>>Policy guidelines are in progress<<

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Documentation

This document server is based on the repository software OPUS4. OPUS is documented here: http://opus4.kobv.de/.

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– Hochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel
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Contact
E-Mail: info@ostfalia.de
Tel: +49 5331 939 0
Fax: +49 5331 939 14624

Authorized
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Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur

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Finanzamt Wolfenbüttel
Steuer-Nr.: 51/201/00321
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Data Security

More information only in German you will find here.

Data Security Officer
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Klages

Responsible in terms of content
President of Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Karger (§55 Abs. 2 RStV)

Technical webmaster
Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences – Hochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel IT-Service Center
The website is built and managed on the OpenCMS content management system.

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