Open access in Spain

Open access in Spain is defined by 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. 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. 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.

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

• Grupo de Trabajo de “Depósito y Gestión de datos en Acceso Abierto” del proyecto RECOLECTA (Recolecta Working Group on “The depositing and management of data in Open Access”) (2012), (PDF), FECYT
• Rosângela Schwarz Rodrigues; Ernest Abadal [in Catalan] (2014). (PDF). Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 65. US.
• Á. Borrego (2015). "Measuring compliance with a Spanish Government open access mandate". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 67 (4): 757–764. doi:. hdl:. S2CID .
• Walt Crawford (2018). . Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017. US: Cites & Insights Books.
• Maria‐Francisca Abad‐García (2018). "Effectiveness of OpenAIRE, BASE, Recolecta, and Google Scholar at finding Spanish articles in repositories". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 69.

in Spanish

• , Geek and Tech: Tecnología, Geeks, internet y mucho mas (in Spanish), 2012, archived from on 27 January 2012
• [Report of the Monitoring Commission on the degree of compliance with Article 37 of the Science Law] (PDF) (in Spanish), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, 2016

External links

• Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas (REBIUN). [Search: Open Science Harvester]. Recolecta.fecyt.es (in Spanish).
• . Accesoabierto.net (in Spanish and Catalan). Archived from on 2018-04-11. (General information website about the progress of open access in Spain and other Spanish-speaking places) . Accesoabierto.net (in Spanish). Universitat de Barcelona and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. (Database of Spanish institutional repositories) (in Spanish). (Database of journals) (in Spanish). (Database of policies)
• (listserv about implementation of repositories in Spain)
• . Registry of Open Access Repositories. UK.
• Peter Suber (ed.). . Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC . News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research
• . ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. UK: University of Southampton.
• . Archived from on 17 December 2014.
• . Sparceurope.org. SPARC Europe. Archived from on 2020-03-10. Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition