The mission of the Repository of the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb (PMF) is to collect, permanently store, and provide open access to the scientific, educational, and creative output of the faculty’s staff, researchers, and students. This supports the visibility of academic work, knowledge sharing, and collaboration within the scientific community.
The PMF Repository was established in 2013 on the EPrints platform, in accordance with legal regulations requiring all higher education institutions in Croatia to store students’ final and graduate theses in their institutional repositories. This obligation is prescribed by the Law on Higher Education and Scientific Activity (NN 119/2022) and the Law on Amendments to the Act on Scientific Activity and Higher Education (NN 94/2013). These regulations clearly state that higher education institutions must ensure the storage of final, graduate, and doctoral theses in institutional repositories, thereby supporting long-term preservation and access to academic output.
The obligation to deposit and publish graduate theses is included in PMF’s Study Regulations.
In 2017, PMF migrated to the national repository infrastructure DABAR. At the time of transition to the new platform, more than 3,000 digital objects were manually transferred from the previous repository.
The Repository aims to consolidate PMF's academic output and enhance its visibility on both national and international levels. Special emphasis is placed on collecting the faculty’s complete scientific and educational production in one place, within the institutional repository.
To ensure long-term availability, preservation, and sustainability, PMF uses the national repository infrastructure DABAR as the technical solution for its Repository. DABAR is developed and maintained by SRCE (University Computing Centre), with support from the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia, and is recognized as the official repository solution by key stakeholders such as the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) and the National and University Library in Zagreb.
