Refubium

Business Profile

Core Value Proposition

Refubium provides access to Freie Universität Berlin's dissertations and habilitations, serving as a centralized repository for scholarly works across multiple departments and collaborating institutions.

Target Customer

Researchers, graduate students, faculty, librarians, and academics seeking access to full-text dissertations and scholarly theses from FU Berlin and partner collections (e.g., Charité).

Key Differentiator

Multilingual repository with full-text search and browse capabilities across diverse collections and departments, including FU Dissertationen and Charité Dissertationen, hosted by FU Berlin and integrated with author/department/subject metadata.

Implementation Timeline

Instant access to publicly available dissertations via the repository; value realized through discoverability and retrieval of full texts and metadata.

Pain Points

1Difficulty locating full-text dissertations across multiple FU Berlin departments and affiliated institutions.
2Fragmented access to theses and habilitations without centralized search and navigation.
3Need for structured discovery by author, department, subject (keywords), and type of publication.

Key Features

1Full-Text Search within this community and its collections
2Browse by Author, Department/Institution, Type of publication, Keyword, Title
3Collections in This Community: Dissertationen FU, Dissertationen/Habilitationen Charité
4English and Deutsch language interface options
5Login/Account management and help/legal/privacy resources

Target Customer Industries

Client Results

1Examples of research outcomes described in dissertations (e.g., post-harvest application of bacteriophages reducing Salmonella on poultry products with reductions of up to 2–3 log units; randomized controlled trial showing significant reductions in depressive symptoms with a three-arm Selfapy study; nanoscale mapping of Golgi-associated ARF GTPases).
2Dissertations present detailed methodological advances and biological/mechanistic findings (e.g., CRISPR-Cas9 screens identifying resistance/sensitizer genes in AML, ultrafast magnetization dynamics in 4f rare-earth metals, and nanoscale organization of ARF GTPases).

Competitive Advantages

1Centralized, searchable access to a broad set of dissertations and habilitations from FU Berlin and partner collections (Charité).
2Structured metadata and multi-collection navigation (Author, Department, Keyword, Title, Type of publication).
3Bilingual interface (English/Deutsch) and standard repository navigation (Browse, Search, Collections).
4Open-access like presentation of full-text dissertations within the repository environment.

Key Benefits

1Centralized access to a wide range of dissertations and habilitations

2Advanced search and browse capabilities by author, department, keyword, title, and publication type

3Multi-language interface and clear organization into collections

4Direct access to full texts and metadata within the repository framework

Additional Product Information

Product Description

Refubium is the Freie Universität Berlin repository for dissertations and habilitations, offering centralized access to full-text scholarly works across multiple departments and affiliated institutions.

Target Market

Academic researchers, graduate students, faculty, librarians, and institutional researchers seeking access to FU Berlin dissertations and Charité-related theses.

Unique Value Proposition

A bilingual, centralized, full-text searchable repository of FU Berlin dissertations and affiliated collections (Charité), enabling efficient discovery and access to scholarly works across numerous disciplines.

Technical Requirements

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Pricing Model

Not specified in the content; repository access appears to be publicly accessible via the web.

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