GUÍA PARA LA EVALUACIÓN DE REPOSITORIOS INSTITUCIONALES DE INVESTIGACIÓN

[From Google Translate] GUIDE FOR THE EVALUATION OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH REPOSITORIES

Open access consists of providing online access to all available scientific information (articles, monographs and research data, among others) free of charge for the reader and under a license that can be used and exploited by the researchers, businesses and citizens1. The idea behind open access is that the results of publicly funded research should be available to all. Research becomes more effective and its results more visible when legal, commercial and technological barriers to access scientific information are eliminated. In addition, open access prevents duplication, fosters technology and knowledge transfer and promotes innovation. All actors involved in the communication system of scientific information benefit from open access to research and the data generated by it. The recent interest that open access policies have generated worldwide is the result of many years of work promoting this new model of access to scientific information by researchers and advocates of this policy. The most important advance that is taking place in this context is the growing number of funding entities, universities and research centers that currently have open access policies in the world. The most relevant public and private funding agencies for scientific research are implementing mandatory open access policies, building the foundations for open access to be the usual way to communicate research. Likewise, important universities and research centers are taking the necessary steps in this direction. In Europe, the Horizon 2020 program includes among the obligations of its beneficiaries that of depositing openly all those publications that are generated within the framework of the financed projects. In Spain, Law 14/2011, of June 1, on Science, Technology and Innovation, in its article 37, obliges the beneficiaries of research projects financed by the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation to deposit the final digital version of contributions to periodicals or serials in open access repositories. In addition, there are three regional governments that have taken the initiative and have developed their own regulations on open storage: the Community of Madrid, the Principality of Asturias and the Generalitat de Catalunya. Lastly, open storage has also received an important boost at the institutional level and currently in Spain there are 33 research institutions that have developed their own institutional policy in favor of open access, either in the form of a declaration, recommendation or requirement of mandatory compliance