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Article

The document type Article includes documents that were published as articles, leading articles, editorials, indexes, directories or as part of the editorial section in a scientific journal or periodical.

Bachelor's thesis

The document type Bachelor's thesis is the lowest level of final paper.

Book

The document type Book is for classic monographic works.

Conference object

The document type conference object includes all types of documents connected with a conference (conference reports and paper, conference lectures, proceedings as well as other conference contributions such as abstracts and posters).

Contribution to a (non-scientific) newspaper or journal

The document type Contribution to a (non-scientific) newspaper or journal denominates a contribution in a newspaper, a weekly magazine or in another non-scientific periodical.

Issue

The document type Issue stands for a complete issue of a journal in the conventional sense.

Master's thesis

The document type Master's thesis means the intermediate level of final paper. Please note the quality specifications in our guidelines.

Other

The document type Other is intended for any documents that do not fit any of the categories listed.

Part of a book

The document type Part of a book represents documents that were created as part of a monographic work, such as chapters or contributions to collected editions.

Part of a periodical

The document type Part of a Periodical stands for a part (volume, issue) of a journal or a periodical and generally contains several contributions (articles).

Preprint

The document type Preprint includes preliminary scientific or technical papers that are not to be published in an institution's series but in a scientific journal or as part of a book.

Report

The document type Report includes text material that does not fit into any other category, e.g. reports, external research reports, messages, statistical reports, final project reports, technical documentation and manuals.

Review

The document type Review includes reviews of books and articles, or summaries of a work that were not written by its author.

Study thesis

The document type Study Thesis includes text-based elaborations that have been created in a study context (assignments, seminar reports, examination reports and project reports) and are not classified as final theses.

Working paper

The document type Working paper stands for a preliminary scientific or technical paper published in a series by an institution (also research paper, research memorandum, discussion paper).

Source: OPUS FAU, the Online publication system of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and OPUS documentation

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