What is it?
The Thesaurus of the University of Barcelona (THUB) is a vocabulary that facilitates consultation by subject in Cercabib (UB CRAI's discovery tool) because:
- Standardizes the way of accessing subject indexes
- Unambigously identifies the searched term
- Groups document based on accepted forms
THUB is the structured and controlled vocabulary that is used as a basic tool for indexing and retrieval by subject of all the information resources of the CRAI of the University of Barcelona.
The THUB is a multidisciplinary thesaurus in Catalan that includes terms that designate concepts of the various specialties that are the field of action and interest of the UB.
The THUB can also be a useful terminological research tool due to its hierarchical and associative structure, and classification by categories, which are the basis of the UB Microthesaurus.
Area of application
The THUB is used in the indexing and conceptual retrieval of all the information resources of the CRAI of the UB in the different search applications available to it. It is therefore the vocabulary for indexing these resources described in:
- Cercabib (UB CRAI's discovery tool) and the Collective Catalog of the Universities of Catalonia (CCUC)
- The Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona and the set of external repositories in which the UB participates: RACO, RECERCAT, TDX and MDX
- The Biblioteca Patrimonial de la Universitat de Barcelona (BiPaDi), portal that contains digitized copies of the heritage, bibliographic and documentary collections of the UB
- The UBDoc, application for consulting and managing archival documents and documentary heritage of the University of Barcelona
- The Digital Memory of Catalonia, consortium repository for the description of heritage collections
- Other databases owned by the institution, such as the UBTV.
Currently, (March 2026) the THUB contains 30.126 descriptors, of which:
- 22.630 are thematic descriptors
- 7.031 are geographical descriptors
- 465 are genre/form descriptors
The thesaurus also incorporates equivalences of the preferred terms in Spanish, English and French. Currently, 92% of THUB authority records contain equivalences in these three languages, which are the basis of the current multilingual structure.
More information
- La indexació per matèries a la Universitat de Barcelona
- El Thesaurus de la Universitat de Barcelona: balanç d’un projecte
For more detailed information, to send us suggestions or comments, please contact the Technical Processing Unit of the CRAI.