Publishing for Doctoral Researchers at TH Köln

On ePublications, you can submit your thesis, individual research and project reports, research papers, or even digital secondary publications of your closed access articles in scientific journals.

On Cologne Open Science, quality-checked research papers, mainly by professors at TH Köln, are published in approved series. TH Köln also allows its doctoral researchers to publish their dissertations as open access publications on Cologne Open Science. You can choose between these two series:

Kölner Schriften zur Geistes- und Gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschung (Cologne Publication Series on Humanities and Social Science)

Kölner Schriften zur Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaftlichen Forschung (Cologne Publication Series on Engineering and Natural Sciences)

Should you be interested in publishing your dissertation as part of these series of papers, you can contact the university library (link only available in German). This service is free of charge for all doctoral researchers of TH Köln.

Advantages of online publications:

• open access
• optimized visibility
• recognition from experts and the public
• higher citation rate
• faster publication process
• rights remain with the author(s)
• long-term availability.

Procedure for publishing at TH Köln

In most cases, the guidelines for publishing for researchers at TH Köln apply to doctoral researchers. Therefore, please note the transformation agreements concluded by TH Köln and the information on paying publication invoices. At TH Köln, authors are generally responsible for publication costs.