Publishing on CompaRe
Your research in Open Access
CompaRe stands for Comparative Literature Repository and is specially tailored to the Comparative Literature community. CompaRe offers researchers, research institutions, projects, and academic publishers a straightforward way to make publications freely accessible in Open Access.
How can I publish on CompaRe?
Here's how easy it is:
- Contact:
Would you like to publish a publication on CompaRe? Please contact us via email with your project. We will then check whether your project aligns with our academic profile and guide you through the next steps. - Rights clearance:
Before your publication can be published, please ensure that you hold the necessary rights. You must confirm this to us in a consent statement. Although we cannot provide legally binding advice, we are happy to assist you with rights clearance. - Submission of documents:
Please send the signed consent form and your publication to us via email or make them available for download through a cloud or file-sharing service. The documents should be in PDF format, or ideally in the long-term archiving-compatible PDF/A format. - Publication phase:
We will enter the documents you provide into our publication system, where they will be comprehensively cataloged both formally (title and author details, page numbers, etc.) and content-wise (abstract, keywords, various classifications). We will then publish the documents under the license you have selected.
What can I publish on CompaRe?
We accept a wide range of publications:
- Scholarly articles
- Articles from edited volumes
- Monographs
- Edited volumes
- Monograph series
- Journals
- Conference reports
- Lecture notes and slides
- Supplementary materials
- ... and more
CompaRe is primarily a platform for what is known as the “green road” to open access – the re-publication of material which has already appeared in published form. But we also very much welcome first publications by authors who work in literature or cultural studies departments at universities or publicly funded research institutes.
What benefits does CompaRe offer me?
CompaRe offers you all the advantages of a specialised open access repository:
The more visible your publication is – in catalogues, indices, and citation systems – the more frequently it will be found. A (re-)publication on an open access platform will not only increase your visibility: open access publications are cited significantly more often than those with restricted access.
Every document on CompaRe can also be found via avldigital.de – the centralised online resource supplying the Comparative Literature research community with specialised information. The documents are also automatically indexed as online publications in the German National Library (DNB), as well as being listed by Google and in the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE), one of the world’s largest open access indices.
We will catalogue your publication in accordance with librarian standards and scientific criteria. The metadata thus assigned will improve the documents’ searchability in other library catalogues and search engines.
CompaRe only indexes qualified material which has already appeared in professional publications and gone through editorial or peer review (scholarly journals, anthologies, monograph series), if the material is being published a second time in CompaRe. First publications are generally by authors who work in literature or cultural studies departments at universities or publicly funded research institutes.
CompaRe is integrated into the infrastructure of the Frankfurt University Library’s DINI-certified repository. Each document is also archived on the German National Library’s server and is assigned a URN (unified resource name). These measures mean it can be clearly identified, linked and cited – over the long term.
When your material is published and archived on CompaRe, you grant us the simple right of usage to your publication. The rights to usage beyond this (e.g. publishing your material elsewhere) remain entirely with you. It is possible to publish material using Creative Commons licences.
The FID AVL is funded by the German Research Foundation and is completely free of charge. CompaRe has no access restrictions.
Who publishes on CompaRe?
In addition to individual researchers, the following institutions and publishers use the publication services of CompaRe.
Since 2015, the ZfL in Berlin has archived several monograph series on CompaRe:
- The Trajekte series, published by Wilhelm Fink
- The LiteraturForschung series, published by Kadmos Kulturverlag
- The Interjekte open access series issued by the ZfL
- The Forum Interdisziplinäre Begriffsgeschichte open access series issued by the ZfL
- ZfL BLOG
The ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry is an independent research centre dedicated to exploring how diverse cultures can be brought into productive rather than pernicious confrontation.
The institute archives open access publications on CompaRe, focusing on the "Cultural Inquiry" series. The series was published by Turia + Kant from 2010 to 2018 and is since continued by the ICI Berlin Press.
An agreement with the Department of Language and Literature at the Max Planck Institute of Empirical Aesthetics has ensured the ongoing simultaneous archiving of the department’s publications appearing in the open access repository PuRe. The indexing of these publications on CompaRe provides the added benefit of making them visible within the context of literature studies.
The European Dream Cultures Research Training Group (University of Saarbrücken) has agreed to collaborate with the SIS Comparative Literature.
After the expiry of a moving wall lasting one year, Aisthesis will make two annual volumes available in open access via CompaRe:
- Komparatistik: Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (annual volume issued by the DGAVL; beginning with the 2014-2015 edition)
- Colloquium Helveticum, the annual volume issued by the SGAVL (beginning with the 2015 edition)
The Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft was published by Synchron. Wissenschaftsverlag der Autoren (Heidelberg) from 1999 to 2014, which has kindly made these volumes available on open access via CompaRe.
Christian A. Bachmann Verlag has made selected articles from the Comiqheft series, as well as additional publications, available on CompaRe.
The Stanford Literary Lab issues the open access Pamphlets series on questions and methods of digital literature studies. This series is now also accessible via CompaRe.
The series of conferences "Digitalität in den Geisteswissenschaften" investigates the way the digital transformation modifies objects, central questions and epistemes of disciplines pertaining to the Humanities. The contributions to each conference are published open access in the form of digital edited volumes.
The third volume, titled Forschungsinfrastrukturen in den digitalen Geisteswissenschaften was published on CompaRe in late 2019. Further volumes are set to be published here as well.
LiTheS, Literatur- und Theatersoziologie (Sociology of Literature and Theatre), is an "interdisciplinary and interdepartmental focus of research, teaching and documentation" at the Institute of German Studies at the Graz University.
Since 2008, a periodical by the same name, LiTheS. Zeitschrift für Literatur- und Theatersoziologie is published within this context via the repository of the Graz University. Now, all contributions have also been published on CompaRe.
The series Studien der Paderborner Komparatistik, edited by Prof. Dr. Jörn Steigerwald and Prof. Dr. Claudia Öhlschläger, presents research conducted at the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn. It mainly features contributions to research in literary and cultural studies by young scholars, with a focus on Gender Studies.
Schwabe Verlag collaborates with the FID AVL. The collaboration aims to re-publish publications that have already been published in Open Access. Thus, the publications are archived according to the LOCKSS principle (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe).
transcript Independent Academic Publishing is one of the leading publishing houses for the Humanities in the German speaking world. For several years now, transcript has been strongly committed to the Open Access transformation and offers on its online platform approximately 400 titles that are freely accessible. Additionally, the publishing house allows authors to re-publish single contributions to edited volumes via the Green Way of Open Access.
CompaResupports authors in re-publishing contributions to research in Comparative Literature. Titles that were first published by transcript are made accessible via a specialised collection, rendering the cooperation between the publishing house and the FID AVL transparent, and the commitment of transcript to Open Access more visible.
Neofelis Verlag has been an independent cultural studies publisher based in Berlin since 2011. The focus is on an interest in interdisciplinary approaches to address current social, political, and cultural issues and their historical contexts. Selected publications of the program also appear as open access. The cooperation aims at the secondary publication of publications of the publishing house that have already appeared in open access.