Welcome to the page of the institutional repository of the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (further only UMB). It is built for the purpose of making available the results of scientific research and teaching activities of members of the academic community of UMB. By building it, the university signed up to support open access and adopted an open science policy. We believe that this step will help increase the prestige of our university even beyond the borders of Slovakia. In the repository you will find: • results of UMB publishing activities (monographs, anthologies, magazines) • results of publication activities of UMB academic staff published by other publishers • teaching materials • other documents related to the activities of the university and its presentation to the public. Individual documents are organized into communities and sub-communities that correspond to the organizational structure of the university's workplaces. Access to some documents may be restricted by a time embargo or only for logged in users. The repository is managed by the UMB University Library in cooperation with the UMB Institute of Automation and Communication.