Short Description
reposiTUm provides direct access to all Open Access publications of TU Wien. In addition to documents produced by members of the university, this also includes works by external authors that were created, written, or funded at TU Wien or through the use of its infrastructure.
reposiTUm also serves to make the digital collections of TU Wien Bibliothek permanently accessible worldwide, thereby making a valuable contribution to research and the preservation of cultural heritage. It includes all common publication types, secondary publications (preprints and postprints), university theses and other grey literature of TU Wien, as well as the library’s digital collections.
By meeting the requirements of the intellectual capital report, the Open Access platform reposiTUm also serves as a documentation tool for the entire scholarly publication output of TU Wien since 2022. The platform combines a full-featured institutional repository with a comprehensive publications database and facilitates the recording, visibility, and open dissemination of researchers’ scholarly work. All metadata from the predecessor system, which had been in place since the 1990s, were integrated.
Contact Person
Dr. David Krassnig
Research Services
Timely provision of content, thus accelerating academic communication,
Global visibility thanks to easy retrieval of information via search engines,
Full text search of contents,
Reliable citation provision thanks to stable link,
Long-term archiving and clear citation with DOIs,
Integration in CatalogPlus and other search tools,
Metadata of research output
Methods & Expertise for Research Infrastructure
reposiTUm is operated in cooperation. TU Wien Bibliothek is responsible for the Open Access platform, the service unit Research Information Systems for metadata records without full texts, and the service unit Software Development of Campus IT for the technical infrastructure (open source software DSpace-CRIS).
All Open Access documents are reviewed by TU Wien Bibliothek prior to release and are assigned permanent identifiers, such as Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), in reposiTUm to ensure discoverability and citability. The metadata are curated by TU Wien Bibliothek in accordance with national and international standards and delivered to various library catalogues, discovery services, and search engines.