About

The University Bibliography is a publically accessible search system for the publications of scientists and scholars at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In contrast to subject-specific databases, it records the volume of publications at JGU from an institutional perspective.

Bibliographic records contained in the database are imported from the research information system (CRIS) Gutenberg Research Elements. Gutenberg Research Elements also incorporates all data from the former University Bibliography and from Gutenberg Open Science, JGU's open access repository.

Due to this interlinking, the amount and completeness of the listed data in the university bibliography relys on the use of Gutenberg Research Elements. Authors who would like to see their publications represented in the university bibliography can do so by entering their data in Gutenberg Research Elements. Please note that only publications that are included in Research Elements can be found in the university bibliography.

Your publication will not appear in the University Bibliography until you have "claimed" it in Gutenberg Research Elements. You can check this in the following steps:

  1. Please log in at https://researchelements.uni-mainz.de.
  2. Select "Publications" in the menu area "My Profile" "My Work". You can now view the publications that have not yet been "claimed" under "Pending".
  3. In the right area you can search for the desired publication by title or other filter options.
    When you have found your publication, click on "Claim". Now you have accepted the publication for your publication list and it will also be visible in the university bibliography the following day. For detailed information on publication acquisition in Gutenberg Research Elements, see the Gutenberg Research Elements FAQs and the handout.

You can start a free text search in the search slot at the top of the website. The system is searching in all fields of a data record.

On the left-hand side you also have the option of restricting this free-text search using facets. The number of publications in each facet is displayed in ().

In the "Category" facet, you can first preselect in which of the objects listed in the university bibliography the search should take place. You can choose between publications and organizational units. The facets listed below are then adapted to this preselection and can be used to limit the search result.

Multiple facets can also be combined step by step by selection. If you have selected one or more desired search restrictions, the result will be displayed on the right side of the window. You can now continue searching in this set of results by entering search terms in the input bar. You can also remove individual restrictions, choose additional facets or start over. Under "Search history" in the upper right area you can view past searches in this session as well as delete your search history.

Under "History" in the upper right area you can view past searches in this session as well as delete your search history.

This option is available for the fields Title, ORCID, Journal and Identifier (DOI, ISBN, ISSN, eISSN). Select the desired search field from the drop-down list on the left of the search slot. The default is to search in all fields. The search result in the ORCID, Journal and Identifier fields is based on the exact match of the search term, while the query in the Title field also considers similar titles. You can use the facets on the left to further narrow the search result of a field-based query.

By pre-selecting the category "Publications" you can use the search bar to search through all the publication entries in the university bibliography. To further restrict the search result, you have the following facets available:

  • Publication type: Here you can choose between different publication types such as "Book" or "Journal article".
  • Author: Here you can restrict your search result using a list of all author names contained in the bibliographic data.
  • Publication year: Here you can use the slide switch to set the year of publication or the period of publication you are looking for.
  • Organizational unit: Here the search result is limited to the publications of the organizational units listed. Publications from subordinate organizational units are included in the search results for the higher-level organizational units. For example, the list of FB 08 Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science contains all publications of the Institute for Nuclear Physics.
  • Data source: Here the search results can be restricted to individual data sources from Gutenberg Research Elements.

With the preselection "Organizational Unit" in the "Category" facet, you search through all publication lists for organizational units in the search slot. To restrict the search result, you can further restrict the overall list of organizational units matching the search term with a selection list in the "Organizational unit" facet.

On the overview page of the respective organizational unit, the publication lists of the subordinate organizational units are linked under "Parent of" and the publication lists of the higher-level organizational units are linked under "Child of".

In the facet "Open Access Status", the filter "OA for DOAJ" can be used to filter out all articles from gold open access journals or conference proceedings. The filter is based on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

If you have any questions about registration, publication search, or how publications are displayed, please contact the Gutenberg Research Elements support team (researchelements@uni-mainz.de). Further information about the project as well as FAQs can also be found on the Gutenberg Research Elements homepage (uni-mainz.de).