University of Barcelona Digital Repository

What is the repository?

The UB Digital Repository is an institutional resource containing open-access digital versions of publications related to the teaching, research and institutional activities of the UB's teaching staff and other members of the university community.

The repository serves the following purposes:

• it provides wider access to the university's publications and greater visibility for the documents published by the University community;
• it preserves digital documentation and materials created by the UB and guarantees access to them in the future;
• it provides access to all digital documents and materials published by the university via a single server and interface;
• it encourages the production of original scientific material by the university community.

The Digital Repository is coordinated by the UB Learning and Research Resources Centre (CRAI) and uses DSpace, the open source software originally designed for institutional repositories by developers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hewlett-Packard Labs.

The Digital Repository uses the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) interoperability protocol, which increases the documents’ visibility since it is offered jointly with other international repositories.

What does the repository contain?

• Teaching contents in the collection OMADO (Teaching Objects and Materials), which includes documents produced by UB teaching staff, and in RIDOC (Information Resources for Teaching Staff), which comprises documents produced by academic and administrative offices at the UB.
• Institutional contents, comprising institutional and administrative documentation made public by the governing bodies of the UB.
• Research contents, meaning open-access publications related to the research activity of UB teaching staff.
• Media library contents, with audiovisual materials created by teaching staff and the services and sections of the UB.
• Students’ contents, including final degree assignments, postgraduate and master's degree work.

Author rights

The larger part of documents included in the Repository are subject to a Creative Commons license. This license establishes that the work may be copied, distributed and publicly displayed, provided that the University of Barcelona and the original authors of the work are cited. Each document’s license determines the commercial use, the creation of derivative works and the conditions under which this is permitted.
Applications must be made to the authors and the University of Barcelona to use the work for purposes other than those stated in the license and express consent must be given.

Licenses used in the Repository:

Explanation of licenses

Other institutional repositories with UB participation

The University of Barcelona participates in other cooperative institutional repositories, which are coordinated by the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) and by the Supercomputing Center of Catalonia (CESCA), and are sponsored by the Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya). The university community can add documents to the repositories.

RECERCAT (Research Repository of Catalonia)
This is a cooperative repository of digital documents, including research literature from Catalan universities and research centres, preprints, conference papers, research reports, working papers, final projects and technical reports.
Más información: http://www.recercat.net

TDX
This is a cooperative repository of doctoral theses defended at universities in Catalonia and the rest of Spain in full-text digital format.
Further information can be found at: http://www.tesisenxarxa.net/

RACO (Open Access Catalan Journals)
This repository provides open access to full-text articles from Catalan scientific, cultural and scholarly journals. The project was initiated by the CBUC, the CESCA and the National Library of Catalonia (BC) and is supported by the Catalan Government.
Further information can be found at: http://www.racocat.net/

MDX (Learning Materials Online)
I s a cooperative repository that contains digital materials and resources resulting from teaching activities carried out in member universities. The purpose of MDX is to make the participant institutions’ teaching production more visible and widespread, thus contributing to educational innovation, on the one hand, and free access to knowledge, on the other.
MDX is a project of the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC) and the Supercomputation Centre of Catalonia (CESCA).
Further information can be found at: http://www.mdx.cat/