The following categories of current or past electronic documents authored by members of HTW Berlin can be archived and distributed via OPUShtw:

Amtliche Mitteilungsblätter: The document type Amtliche Mitteilungsblätter refers to the statutes, ordinances and legal announcements of HTW Berlin.

Article: The document type Article refers to an article of a journal or periodical (postprint) that contains several contributions.

Bachelor thesis: The document type Bachelor thesis refers to the lowest level of a final thesis (usually after 3 years of study). Bachelor's theses are only published on the recommendation of a supervisor and only with a grade of at least '2.0'.

Contribution to a periodical: The document type contribution to a periodical refers to an article in a newspaper, weekly magazine or other non-scientific periodical.

Report: The document type report contains textual material that cannot be categorised elsewhere, e.g. reports, external research reports, internal reports, communications, statistical reports, project completion reports, technical documentation and instructions.

Book (monograph): The document type book (monograph) is intended for classic monographic works.

Diploma thesis: The diploma thesis document type denotes the intermediate level of a final thesis. The diploma thesis is a final thesis before the start of the Bologna Process for academic degrees at the same level as the current Master's degree.

Doctoral thesis: The document type doctoral thesis refers to the highest level of a final thesis that is equivalent to or higher than a dissertation but does not follow the Bologna Convention.

E-Tutorial: The document type e-tutorial refers to a guide designed to enable independent learning of specific topics.

Habilitation: For the definition of the document type habilitation, see dissertation.

Conference proceedings: The conference proceedings document type includes all types of documents associated with a conference, including conference papers, conference reports, conference lectures, contributions to conference proceedings, conference papers, abstracts, volumes of conference papers, posters from conferences.

Course material: The document type course material refers to teaching material in the broadest sense, e.g. lecture recordings as moving image or sound documents, exercise material, preparation or examination material. Lecture texts themselves, on the other hand, have the document type 'Lecture'.

Master's thesis: The Master's thesis document type denotes the intermediate level of a thesis and also refers to theses before the start of the Bologna Process for academic degrees at the same level as the current Master's degree (Magister, Uni-Diplom, Staatsexamen). Master's theses are only published on the recommendation of a supervisor and only with a grade of at least '2.0'.

Preprint: The document type preprint includes preliminary scientific or technical papers that are not intended to appear in an institution's series, but rather in a scientific journal or as part of a book.

Other: The Miscellaneous document type is intended for anything that does not fit into any of the existing document types.

Study thesis: The Study Thesis document type refers to text-based elaborations that are produced as part of a degree programme (term papers, seminar papers, investigation and project reports) and are not classified as a final thesis.

Part of a book: The document type part of a book represents documents that have been produced as part of a monographic work, such as chapters or contributions to anthologies.

Lecture: The Lecture document type contains university speeches, lectures and inaugural lectures.

Source: OPUS 4 manual, https://www.opus-repository.org/userdoc/documenttypes/