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Available document types
The following document types are available:
- Article
The document type Article [Article] is used for documents that were published as an article, lead article, editorial, register, table of content or editorial section of a journal or periodical (postprints).. - Bachelor Thesis
The document type Bachelor Thesis [Bachelor's Thesis] is used for the lowest level of a final paper. - Book (monograph)
The document type Book (monograph) [Book] is used for classic monographic works. - Conference Proceedings
The document type Conference Proceedings [Conference Object] contains all kinds of documents that are used for a conference (conference papers, conference reports, conference lectures, contributions in conference proceedings, conference speeches, abstracts, volumes of conference speeches/contributions, posters of conferences). - Image
The document type image [Image] describes a not text-bound visual representation. For example Images and photographs of objects, paintings, Prints, drawings, other images and graphics, animations and moving pictures, diagrams, maps or notes . This document type can be used for digital and physical objects. - Lecture
The document type Lecture[Lecture] describes speeches, lectures and inaugaral lectures - Master's Thesis
The document type Master's Thesis [Master's Thesis] is used for Level 2 of a final paper. This term refers to final papers written before establishment of the Bologna Process for academic grades at the same level that is now known as Masters, such as diploma thesis ("Diplomarbeit"), final papers ("Zulassungsarbeit"), magister thesis. - Moving images (Film)
Moving images (Film) [Moving Image] are a series of visual images that leave the impression of motion when they are shown in sequence, for example animations, films, video clips, or visual images in a simulation. - Other
Other [Other] is the category for all other texts that do not fit into any of the existing document types. - Part of a Book (chapter)
The document type "Part of a Book" [Part of a Book] represents documents that were created as part of a monograph, e. g. chapters or contributions to collections. - Part of Periodical
The document type Part of Periodical [Issue] is used for classic magazines. - Preprint (Vorabdruck)
Preprints [Preprint] are preliminary academic or technical papers that have not been published in a series in an institution but are rather part of a scientific magazine or they appeared as part of a book. - Report
Reports [report] contain text material that cannot be otherwise categorised, e.g. reviews, repots, external research reports, announcements, statistics, project completion reports, documentations, and instructions. - Sound (audio files)
Sound documents [Sound] are resources that are mostly meant to be listened to, such as music files, audio CDs, voice and sound records. No distinction is made between sounds, noises, and music. - Working Papers
The document type Working Papers [Workingpaper] describes preliminary academic or technical paper that is to be published in a series within an institution (also research paper, research memorandum, discussion paper).
The description of the different types of documents was mostly taken from the OPUS documentation.
Source: OPUS 4 Manual, Version 4.4.4 (09.10.2014)