• Why publish in the portal German Medical Science?
• Peer review process
• How are online articles cited?
• Are publications in the portal German Medical Science also available in print?
• Will my manuscript be treated confidentially?
• Data Protection in the portal German Medical Science

• Are open access and the review of articles within a peer review process compatible with each other?
• Are open access and printed publications compatible?
• Is open access compatible with high scientific standards and higher quality?

• Open Access
  All the research results published in the portal German Medical Science are available worldwide and free of charge. Further details under our Open Access Charta.
• Transfer only of the necessary rights for the open access publishing online
  The portal German Medical Science does not require the author to transfer the copyright - You, as originator of the scientific accomplishment, still dispose of all the rights on your work. The portal German Medical Science only reserves the right to store in databases. You may publish the research results on the homepage of the institute, make as many copies as you want, forward your manuscript to colleagues - as you wish. The only condition is that the journal or the respective congress publication within the portal German Medical Science is correctly cited as the first publishment of this article.
• No size restriction
  The portal German Medical Science knows no restrictions in size or in the number of references at all.
• New Media
  Discover the appreciation of the new media for your research results and complement your articles e.g. with high-resolution pictures, extensive charts, sounds, films or research databases.
• Free storage on DIMDI's highly available and highly secure server
• Quick publication
• Let the portal German Medical Science advertise for your article!
• Highly-qualified articles are sent to research groups that are active in the same field free-of-charge (in development).

The review process of the originals is to make sure that only scientific, highest-quality and innovative articles are published that furnish the readers with new and interesting information. The process is based on a form of peer review in which the submitted manuscript is presented to experts for review. The experts are well-known on the field in question. The expert remains anonymous for the author and vice versa in most cases.

In principle, online articles are cited exactly like other journal articles.

After the author's data and title, the valid form of the reference is cited in the respective article with journal, volume and article number; e.g. GMS Ger Med Sci 2005;3:Doc 02. Cite the authors and title as required for your purposes and add this part of the reference. Since the articles in the portal German Medical Science have a permanent and explicit address, the respective URL should be included in the reference.

The portal German Medical Science offers a Print-on-Demand Service, in order to provide printed exemplars of e.g. meeting papers reasonably and quickly.

Of course. Only the editorial staff and the reviewer of the chosen congress or journal have access to your manuscript in an individualized and protected procedure. The manuscript is safely stored on a highly secure server.

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Absolutely. Indeed, the mission of the portal German Medical Science is open access publishing of articles that have successfully passed through the peer review. Peer review is not media-dependent and as an important evaluation procedure of scientific expert literature, it is just as necessary for online publications as for printed ones.

Absolutely. Open access means free online access for interested readers but at the same time printed versions may be sold for a fee. Moreover, open access neither rules out printouts by the users nor printed archives for back-ups or permanent storage.

Why not? Summed up you could say that exactly those factors that are decisive for the scientific quality in the case of traditional printed publications are also efficient for the type of scientific literature published by the portal German Medical Science and that they take effect. The standards according to which manuscripts are evaluated of the jounals in the portal German Medical Science are the standards of the field to which the special expert journal belongs: They are both independent from the media chosenand independent from the fact whether fees are imposed for access to the publication or not. The quality of the publication is fully dependent upon the standards of the corresponding scientific field itself, but not of if the archive allows open access to them.

The quality of a scientific expert journal is dependent upon the responsible persons there, i.e. on the editors, on the members of the advisory committee and on experts that work on the reviews. On the contrary, this quality has consequences on the quality of the articles which are submitted by the authors for publication.

Open access-journals may make use of the same quality assurance mechanisms as the traditionally printed journals. Decisive is, who is involved with which criterion/standards in the process of publication and publishing - whereby the media itself (print vs. online) and the costs (chargeable vs. freely accessible) are unimportant.