Published in Gemeinsamer Blog der DINI AGs
Author Heinz Pampel
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In 1995, one of the first institutional Open Access repositories in Germany, MONARCH, was launched at the Technical University of Chemnitz (Blumtritt, 2006). These early repositories, aimed to publish theses dissertations.