Habilitations
Overview
The habilitation regulations of the Faculties 09, 10 and 11 require submission and publication at the University Library. You must submit 4 printed copies to the University Library and also publish them online on our publication platform "JLUpub".
We will send a confirmation that your habilitation has been submitted/published to your responsible dean’s office or examination office.
Habilitationsordnung des Fachbereichs Agrarwissenschaften, Ökotrophologie und Umweltmanagement vom 19.04.2006 (only in German)
Habilitationsordnung des Fachbereichs Veterinärmedizin vom 23.05.2007 (only in German)
Habilitationsordnung Medizin vom 20.07.2015 (only in German)
Printed copies
The printed copies must be printed in the formats DIN A4 or DIN A5 on non-ageing, wood-free and acid-free paper, and marked as a JLU habilitation. The pages can be printed on one or two sides. Hard and soft covers are permitted, please do not use transparent foils as a cover sheet. The binding must not be a ring binding, please choose a durable binding, e.g. an adhesive binding.
Please note the further requirements of your examination office.
In terms of content and layout, the print version and the submitted PDF file must be identical; only personal data such as date of birth, CV, addresses and signatures should be removed from the PDF file.
Please send the printed copies to:
Universitaetsbibliothek Giessen
- Dissertationen/Habilitationen -
Otto-Behaghel-Str. 8
35394 Giessen
You can hand in your print copies at our office (University Library, Ground Floor, Room 2) by appointment. Appointment by email or telephone: contact
Online publication in JLUpub
The institutional repository JLUpub is available for the online publication of your habilitation.
Name your PDF file according to the following scheme:
"LastnameFirstname-Year-Month-Day" (date of defence/lecture)
Example: MuellerJulia-2023-02-24
In terms of content and layout, the print version and the submitted PDF file must be identical; only personal data such as date of birth, CV, addresses and signatures should be removed from the PDF file.
Once the habilitation has been published online, it can no longer be deleted or changed.
After a formal review of the online submission and the printed copies by the university library, your habilitation will be published in JLUpub.
We will send a confirmation that your habilitation has been submitted to your responsible dean’s office or examination office.
Cumulative habilitation
In the case of a cumulative habilitation, the articles included have already been published in journals. You must check your contracts or, if necessary, ask the publisher whether a secondary publication of the articles as part of the cumulative habilitation, especially an online publication, is permitted.
SHERPA/Romeo provides an overview of the guidelines of many journals and publishers on secondary publications, especially in open access repositories such as JLUpub.
If you have published your article Open Access under a Creative-Commons-licence, you did not transfer the copyright to the publisher and thus, you can continue to use your work as you like.
If the publisher does not permit a secondary publication as part of your habilitation, you can remove the relevant article from the PDF for online publication and cite the removed article with an accurate bibliographic citation (preferably with a DOI).
Note that in any case the source of the first publication must be given correctly and in full, including the link or DOI of the publisher’s version.