What publications does OPEN FAU accept?

The following categories of electronic documents are stored on and disseminated through OPEN FAU:

• Current publications as well as copies of previously published documents by FAU members with scientific content
• Series of publications from FAU
• Publications and series of publications such as collected editions, congress volumes, research reports, journals (e-journals) and series published by FAU members
• Documents that must be published according to examination regulations
• Final papers by FAU students, such as bachelor’s and master’s theses and theses for admission to state examinations (with at least 10 ECTS), are included if publication is recommended by supervisors or other teaching staff and if they are graded as “sehr gut” (excellent). The author must submit proof of this using the provided form.
• Automatic self-archiving of open access articles if at least one author is affiliated with FAU. This applies to publications from publishers that participate in the Deep Green delivery service.

Documents that have not undergone one of FAU’s internal quality assurance processes and do not meet the requirements for final papers and theses mentioned above, nor have been reviewed by the Academic Advisory Board (see the Regulations for the Scientific Advisory Board), may only be stored if they have undergone a recognized academic quality assurance process (e.g., peer review) or are addenda (e.g., research data, videos, images) to, or predecessors (e.g., preprint, working paper) of, documents that have undergone such processes.