Help for users + buyers

Overview
Information for users and buyers

Our archive

Our publishing house offers you the possibility to publish your academic or scientific work online and as a book for free. Valuable information and countless scholarly papers shouldn't collect dust in the drawers of the authors.

We make sure that your texts are accessible for everyone worldwide. That there is a demand is proven by our user statistics. Over two million users a month visit our publishing websites.

We accept any kind of valuable scientific information to our interdisciplinary archive.

Our E-Books and Books are reviewed or cited often by the press.

Every student, docent or ex-student is free to market their texts through grin and so to get a reward for the hard work they put into writing and researching.

Free access to the e-book version for the users is possible as well, if you prefer this option.

Files + download

Most of our e-books can be downloaded as a zipped PDF-file. This file can be printed out and saved to your computer.

On older systems you may need a zip-program like Filzip, on Windows XP or Vista you just need Adobe Reader.

For problems with opening files we offer you this detailed help page.

Print editions

Many of our texts can be ordered as a printed version (professional paperback or brochure).

Shipping may take 5-20 days, depending on where you live.

Payment issues

You can choose between two different payment systems:

ClickandBuy is one of Germany's biggest payment systems. You can pay securely via credit card.

E-Books can be downloaded instantly, books and brochures may have a delivery time between 5 and 20 days, depending on where you live. Please fill in your shipping address when ordering print versions.

More information on ClickandBuy: click here.

Legal / T&C

Informationen for buyers:

For e-books and printed books, the same copyright is effective. Both can be acquired only for private or other single person use. Copies, reproduction or distribution is only permitted with explicit permission of the author or the publisher. The user is responsible for observing these law prescriptions and is liable for abuse.

If you cite a text literally, the author has to be mentioned - omitting this is a copyright infringement. Whole e-books must not be put on other websites for download.

Please read our Terms & Conditions for buyers.

Plagiarism

Even if many professors and docents publish their works via GRIN, we are sometimes confronted with the subject "plagiarism". We don't support cheating and plagiarism. We offer an archive full of valuable scientific information.

Professors and docents may use our websites as control media of plagiarism. If there is a suspicion of plagiarism from one of our texts, just contact us. We help you to find out if your student has plagiarised.

A closer cooperation between teachers and students through mentoring already in the early stages of writing can help avoiding cheating. So the knowledge of the student concerning the subject can be checked at his point of time. Furthermore, teachers should ask their students to use the latest literature and define the subject in detail to prevent plagiarism.

By publishing texts in our archive, science itsself is brought forward. It cannot be the goal of college education to let students analyse the same subjects over and over again. Basic matters can be checked with written examinations.

Notice to all users of our archive: Copying works from others is a copyright infringement!