The National Repository is a nationwide distributed electronic database in which academic texts are accumulated, stored and systemized.
Academic text is a work of a scientific, scientific and technical, educational nature.
The purpose of the National Repository is to make the scientific information as accessible to the public as possible for Ukraine and the world, which will contribute to the development of educational, scientific, scientific and technical, innovative activities by improving access to academic texts and promoting academic integrity.
The following types of academic texts in electronic form should be included in the NRAT:
- dissertations for the scientific degrees and abstracts of dissertations;
- qualification graduation work of higher education applicants;
- articles in scientific publications, including all articles (set of articles) on the basis of protection of which the degree has been awarded;
- monographs, including those for which a scientific degree has been awarded;
- scientific publications;
- reports on scientific, scientific and technical activities;
- deposited scientific works;
- textbooks, tutorials and other scientific, scientific and teaching materials;
- publications published by authors on online platforms for the exchange of scientific publications.
The National Repository consists of a central repository maintained by the National Repository Manager, and local repositories maintained by institutional participants.
The National Repository includes all academic texts, regardless of the date of their creation and promulgation in accordance with the established procedure in Regulation.
The National Repository Manager establishes a register of academic texts that is open and contains bibliographic information about academic texts that are included in the central and local repositories, as well as published in electronic or paper forms.
The National Repository provides open access of the information contained therein to users, in particular, the register of academic texts, as well as their electronic versions and other related data placed on open access terms, through the National Repository official web portal that has domain name nrat.gov.ua.
Updated 2020-07-22
Updated: 2023-10-17