Digital Library Thuringia (DBT)

Students, teachers, researchers and the interested public

The Digital Library of Thuringia (DBT) is the joint publication and document server of the Thuringian universities. It offers the opportunity to make scientific publications, dissertations, theses, research reports and open access materials permanently freely available.

Publications on the DBT are freely accessible worldwide, can be cited with permanent URNs/DOIs and are referenced in search engines and subject portals. Lectures that are to be made permanently available as videos are exactly right in the DBT. This also applies to university podcasts.

The DBT is a cooperative project of the Thuringian universities and is operated by the ThULB Jena, among others.

Use the DBT e.g. for:

• Research
• Scientific information
• Electronic publishing
• Open Access

The DBT provides the following functions:

• Search with advanced functions
• Permanent URNs/DOIs
• Storage of various media, e.g. also videos and audios
• Enrichment with metadata
• watch list
• Automatic citation format and export to various file formats