As a full-text repository, the University of Cologne Publications Server (KUPS) provides members of the University of Cologne with a platform to publish their academic works electronically in full text and make them freely accessible on the internet.

KUPS helps to raise the profile of the University’s research activities.

KUPS is operated by the University and City Library (USB) Cologne and will be further developed in close cooperation with universitiy committees. In compliance with quality standards the USB provides scientific documents and bibliographic metadata online for research and teaching. The digital documents and data sets receive persistent identifiers and addresses, and are indexed within national and international library catalogues, search engines, and other reference tools. Furthermore, digital preservation is guaranteed for at least five years.

Publication types in KUPS

• Final theses: dissertations, habilitation dissertations, diploma and magister theses, bachelor or master's theses
• Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät only: Thesis abstracts
• Book Sections, items in conference proceedings, items and annotations in a legal commentary
• Books, conference items and legal commentaries
• Jornals and journal articles
• Preprints, working papers and reports
• Conference items

Recommendations and standards of national and international organizations such as the Deutsche Initiative für Netzwerkinformation (DINI) or the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) are taken into account in the operation and the development of KUPS.