OcToPUS

Are you a member of the University of Stuttgart and would like to publish the results of a conference organised by a scientific society? Are the corresponding offers from commercial scientific publishers too expensive for you, so that you are looking for cost-effective alternatives? Are you looking for worldwide, free visibility and availability of the work on the Internet, but possibly also an attractive print edition? Then you've come to the right place. 
Since the end of 2023, the University Library has been home to the OcToPUS project, which aims to bring academic publishing back to the university. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of the joint project Diamond_Thinking. The acronym stands for 'Open Science Tools and Services for Publishing, University of Stuttgart'.
As part of this project, we will be happy to help you publish your conference proceedings, whether in book form or as part of a scientific journal. We offer to support you from editing the manuscript to printing and marketing. Depending on your needs, this is done in co-operation with proven partners such as the British open access science publisher Ubiquity Press, which also hosts the in-house series 'Stuttgart University Proceedings'. 
The most important advantages of such a publication process with OcToPUS are maximum transparency and flexibility as well as the guarantee of the highest quality and professionalism. In addition, the resulting publications are characterised by cost neutrality for the reading public and at least great cost-effectiveness for authors. In addition to conference proceedings, it is also possible to publish other types of publications in book format - in particular monographs - in this way.
Have we piqued your interest? Then please contact us for further information and customised offers: octopus@ub.uni-stuttgart.de