Open access in Spain explained

In Spain, the national 2011 "Ley de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación" (Science, Technology and Innovation Act) requires open access publishing for research that has been produced with public funding.^[1] The first peer-reviewed open access Spanish journal, Relieve, began in 1995. Publishers CSIC Press and Hipatia Press belong to the international Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.

Repositories

There are a number of collections of scholarship in Spain housed in digital open access repositories. They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read. As of March 2018, the UK-based Directory of Open Access Repositories lists some 131 repositories in Spain.^[2] Those with the most digital assets include Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert, Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa, GREDOS (of Universidad de Salamanca), Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico (of Ministry of Culture), and Digital CSIC (of Spanish National Research Council). Related to this are SciELO and DialNet.

Most universities in Spain maintain an institutional repository, collectively searchable via the "Recolecta" digital platform.^[3]

See also

• Copyright law of Spain
• Education in Spain
• Internet in Spain
• List of libraries in Spain
• Media of Spain
• Open access in other countries
• Redalyc (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal)
• Science and technology in Spain

Further reading

in English

• • Rosângela Schwarz Rodrigues . Ernest Abadal .

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    . Scientific journals in Brazil and Spain: Alternative publishing models.. . US . 65 . 2014 .
• Á. Borrego . Measuring compliance with a Spanish Government open access mandate . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology . 67 . 4 . 757–764 . 10.1002/asi.23422 . 2015 . 2445/66332 . 20807814 . free .
• Book: Spain . Walt Crawford . Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017 . https://waltcrawford.name/goaj.html . Cites & Insights Books . US . 2018 . Walt Crawford .
• Effectiveness of OpenAIRE, BASE, Recolecta, and Google Scholar at finding Spanish articles in repositories . Maria‐Francisca Abad‐García . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology . 69 . 2018 .

in Spanish

External links

• Web site: Recolector de Ciencia Abierta: Buscador . es . Search: Open Science Harvester . Recolecta.fecyt.es . Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología . Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas (REBIUN) .
• Web site: Acceso Abierto . es, ca . Accesoabierto.net . (General information website about the progress of open access in Spain and other Spanish-speaking places)
  • Web site: BuscaRepositorios . Accesoabierto.net . es . . (Database of Spanish institutional repositories)
  • Web site: Dulcinea . es . (Database of journals)
  • Web site: Melibea . es . (Database of policies)
• Lista OS-REPOSITORIOS (listserv about implementation of repositories in Spain)
• Web site: . UK . Browse by Country: Europe: Spain .
• Web site: (Spain) . . 1040261573 . Harvard University . News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research . .
• Web site: Browse by Country: Spain . ROARMAP

  Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies

  . . UK .
• Web site: 5th International Conference on Open Repositories, Madrid, Spain, July 6th - 9th, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141217115406/http://or2010.fecyt.es/publico/Home/index.aspx . 17 December 2014 .
• Web site: Our members: Spain . . Sparceurope.org . Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition .

Notes and References

1. Web site: OA in Spain . Open Access in Practice: EU Member States . . 20 March 2018 .
2. Web site: Spain . . University of Nottingham . UK . 20 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090206084105/http://www.opendoar.org/countrylist.php?cContinent=Europe#Spain . 6 February 2009 . dead .
3. Web site: Spain . Global Open Access Portal . . 20 March 2018 .