ISTA Research Explorer

ISTA Research Explorer (ISTA REx) is the institutional repository presenting the scholarly output of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).

Researchers are encouraged to deposit their scholarly publications with a Creative Commons license, preprints, postprints, technical reports, and theses in full text. In addition, other research results such as research data, software or conference papers can be made available. Originally published material for instance theses or research data receive their own DOI as a persistent identifier. The Open Access Policy of ISTA underpins the repository and supports the mission to make research at ISTA as open as possible to the public.

ISTA REx enables the creation of bibliographic lists for single authors affiliated to ISTA, a specific Research Group or the whole Institute. After logging in with the institutional account, a user may add items via DOI import, pdf upload or by entering PMID or arXiv IDs and publish their scholarly papers Open Access under the conditions of the publisher. The repository includes helpful features like linking articles to research data or other articles, and linking all entries of the same awarded or acknowledged grants. ISTA REx therefore facilitates the responsibility of the researchers to satisfy grant and funder requirements for Open Access within the research cycle such as the ERC, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe or FWF.

The ISTA Library webpages include User Guides for the repository, including step-by-step manuals on how to search or add publications.

Technically, ISTA REx is realized with the Open Source software LibreCat. The metadata records (except the copyright protected abstracts) are available under a CC0 license in several formats through an API interface. The service is listed in OpenDOAR and re3data.

While the ISTA IT department handles the technical operation of ISTA REx, the ISTA Library team administrates the content.

For any questions and support please contact the ISTA Library team!