The six primary European research organisations, together forming the G6 network representing 135,000 collaborators – CNR (Italy), CNRS (France), CSIC (Spain), Helmholtz Association, Leibniz Association and Max Planck Society (Germany) – published a joint declaration calling for the European framework for academic freedom to be strengthened.
« This paper focuses on scientific journals’ policies on open access and open science. The subject has gained increasing relevance, driven by the need for more-democratic access to knowledge and improved research visibility, which require eliminating the financial, legal, and technical barriers that restrict access to scientific output. (…) »
« This study investigates factors influencing the deposit of academic publications and research data in open access repositories by Spanish researchers. (…) »
« LA Referencia and Lyrasis are proud to announce the launch of a joint project starting on January 1, 2025, focused on improving the capacity, accessibility and management of open-source platforms across Latin America and Spain. This initiative reflects a commitment to advancing open access to knowledge in these regions by…
« Given the importance of Google Search in generating visits to institutional repositories (IR), a lack of visibility in search engine results pages can hinder the possibility of their publications being found, read, downloaded, and, eventually, cited. To address this, institutions need to evaluate the visibility of their repositories to determine…
« Open science represents a paradigm shift in research activity that promises to facilitate the expansion and extension of the benefits of science to researchers, academic institutions, and society as a whole. This new research model has various components (open access to publications, research data sharing, new research assessment models, etc.)…
« The Spanish government has approved its four-year National Open Science Strategy 2023-2027 (in Spanish). (…)
Spain will hold the Presidency of the Council of the EU from July to December 2023. (…) »
« Government has approved a €23.8M per year scheme to make all publicly-funded research free to access as soon as it is published. (…) »
« This paper analyses the scientific activity related to open science in Spain and its influence on public policy from a bibliometric perspective. For this purpose, Spanish centres’ projects and publications on open science from 2010 to 2020 are studied. (…) »
« Pillars of open science are often included within the editorial policies of scholarly journals, including policies on open access publication, availability of underlying research data, preprints and open peer review. The aim of this paper is to examine and analyse perceptions and editorial practices related to open access, preprints, open…
