Academic Resources
Academic Resources

For Graduates

  • The Career Service of the University of Münster helps you to organize your studies in a career-oriented way, to develop your own professional profile, to gain necessary practical experience, to prepare and evaluate internships, to learn application strategies and techniques, to establish employer contacts, etc.
  • The blog Germanistik im Beruf aims to present the broadest possible spectrum of professional perspectives for students and graduates of German Studies, but also of other philologies. Among other things, the blog informs about the workshop "Germanistik im Beruf", which takes place every semester. In addition, internship reports and further literature on career orientation can be accessed.
  • The Graduate Centre of the University of Münster networks and coordinates offers from the departments, institutes and graduate schools and colleges and adds further offers to the existing range.
  • In the Brücke, the center for international students, you will find information on various offers, current dates or contact addresses of the international student associations
  • SAFIR provides information on research funding programs and calls for proposals, and advises young researchers in particular on their own applications.
  • The Writing-Reading Center of the University of Münster offers support and advice on scientific writing processes in various events. 

Publication Resources

On your way to the PhD

The University and State Library of Münster (ULB) provides multiple options for publishing dissertations as well as articles of the University of Münster's PhD candidates.

Excerpt from the ULB offer:

  • printed: The ULB Münster includes your dissertation in the library holdings, records the dissertation in its catalogs and reports it to the German National Library. This makes it searchable via national and international search engines.
  • digital with miami: The ULB Münster publishes your dissertation on the university document server miami and ensures its permanent availability. The dissertation is reported to the German National Library, is listed in library catalogs and can be found via national and international search engines.
  • Digital & printed in the University of Münster publication series: If you have completed your doctorate with at least "magna cum laude", the ULB offers you the option of "hybrid publishing" in the series Wissenschaftliche Schriften of the University of Münster. Your dissertation will not only be published digitally, but additionally as a printed book.

Check their services here (available only in German).

Open Access

GSPoL Alumna Christina Riesenweber (Open Access consultant FU Berlin, Open-Access-Office Berlin) and ULB representative Elisabeth Sawatzky (Publication Service / Service Point Digitale Dienste) gave an overview of open access options for academics in a GSPoL workshop in June 2018. Information on the foundations of open access, its political framework, legal questions and the open access landscape can be found in the pdf of the open access workshop's presentation (available in German).