Growth of open access publications in Spain, 1990–2018

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][2] The first peer-reviewed open access Spanish journal, Relieve, began in 1995.[3] Publishers CSIC Press and Hipatia Press belong to the international Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.[4]

Repositories

There are a number of collections of scholarship in Spain housed in digital open access repositories.[5] 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.[5] 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).[1] Related to this are SciELO and DialNet.

Most universities in Spain maintain an institutional repository, collectively searchable via the "Recolecta" digital platform.[6][7]

See also

Number of open access publications in various Spanish repositories, 2018

References

  1. ^ a b "OA in Spain". Open Access in Practice: EU Member States. OpenAIRE. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Ley 14/2011, de 1 de junio, de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación", Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish), 2011
  3. ^ "Revista electrónica de investigación y evaluación educativa", Electronic Journal of Educational Research, Assessment and Evaluation (in Spanish), Asociación Interuniversitaria de Investigación en Pedagogía and Universidad de Valencia, ISSN 1134-4032, retrieved 20 March 2018
  4. ^ "Members", Oaspa.org, The Hague: Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, retrieved 7 April 2018
  5. ^ a b "Spain". Directory of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Nottingham. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  6. ^ "Spain". Global Open Access Portal. UNESCO. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  7. ^ Mary Raple, "Top University Repositories in Spain", Open Access Spanish & Latin American Repositories, US: University of Kansas, retrieved 14 July 2018

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