Regulations
UCA Regulations
– UCA Framework Regulation / CG07 / 2012, of July 13, 2012, of End-of-Degree and End-of-Master’s Projects at the University of Cádiz
Approved by agreement of the Governing Council of the University of Cádiz in an ordinary session held on July 13, 2012, in article 7.3 it says: “Works positively evaluated with a grade of 9 or higher will deserve the incorporation of the copy in digital to the Institutional Repository, with open access. “
UCA Framework Regulation /CG07/2012 Modified by UCA Regulation /CG07/2014, June 17th.
More information about TFG / TFM auto-archiving in RODIN
– UCA Regulation / CG06 / 2012, 27th June , 2012, which regulates the organization of doctoral studies at the University of Cádiz
Approved by agreement of the Governing Council of the University of Cádiz in an extraordinary session held on June 27, 2012, in its article 33 it says: “The University of Cádiz will take care of the thesis file in open electronic format in its Institutional Repository .”
UCA Regulation/CG06/2012 modified by resolution of the Governing Council on May 4th, 2016.
More information about self-archiving of thesis in RODIN
Spanish and European guidelines
– Ley 14/2011, of June 1st, on Science, Technology and Innovation (2-06-2011)
The new Law of Science, Technology and Innovation makes reference in its article 37 to the “development of repositories of open access to the publications of research personnel” whose research activity is financed mainly with public funds, and where it should be deposited ” the final version of the accepted contents for publication in serial or periodic research publications, as soon as possible, but no later than twelve months after the official publication date “.
– Real Decreto 99/2011, of January 28th (10-02-2011)
Royal Decree 99/2011, of January 28, which regulates official doctoral studies, mentions in article 14 that “once the doctoral thesis is approved, the university will take care of its file in open electronic format in a institutional repository “.
– Pilot Program for Open Research Data Funded by Horizon 2020
The European Commission has launched a pilot program to put publicly funded research data into open access, applicable to beneficiaries of projects funded or co-funded under the Horizon 2020 program, the new European Framework Program for Research and Innovation 2014 -2020, which encompasses previous programs, including FP7.
In addition, open access to scientific publications will now be mandatory for all scientific publications resulting from projects coming from the Horizon 2020 program. Articles will have to be accessible in open access in a repository within six months after their original publication. In the case of the social sciences and humanities, the term will be twelve months (Guidelines for Open Access to Scientific Publications and Research Data))
Likewise, the projects must aim at the deposit of research data, which will be necessary to validate the results presented in the deposited scientific publications (known as “underlying data”) (Guidelines on Data Management in Horizon 2020).
More information (ESHorizonte 2020)
More information (OpenAIRE)
– OpenAIRE: European Commission open access guidelines
According to thes directrices del Consejo Europeo de Investigación sobre Open Access, guidelines of the European Research Council on Open Access, projects financed under FP7 that have a financing agreement after August 2008, are obliged to deposit the publications resulting from the project’s research in an open access repository. : “The ERC (European Research Council) demands that all publications evaluated by experts resulting from research projects financed by the Council itself be deposited in an appropriate institutional or thematic repository and subsequently facilitate their open access within six months after publication “.
OpenAIRE is the portal financed by FP7 that brings together this initiative, with the support of the FECYT at the national level. Researchers at the University of Cádiz have an institutional repository, RODIN, where they can deposit these works. For this, a specific collection, OpenAIRE, has been created within the Scientific Production community.
More information on self-archiving FP7 research papers at RODIN
Statements/Initiatives
The Open Access movement is based on three fundamental statements:
– Declaración de Budapest (Budapest Open Access Initiative, BOAI 2002)
The Budapest Open Access Initiative arose from a meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) with the purpose of accelerating the progress of the international effort to make research articles in all academic areas freely available on the Internet .
The Budapest Initiative defines open access as: “free availability on the public Internet, so that any user can read, download, copy, distribute, print, with the possibility of searching or linking all the texts of these articles, go through them to exhaustive indexing, use them as data for software, or use them for any other legal purpose, without financial, legal or technical barriers, other than the fundamental one of gaining access to the Internet itself “.
It establishes the two strategies to achieve open access: the deposit of documents in institutional or thematic repositories (self-archiving) and the publication in open access journals.
(Access to the Spanish version).
– Declaración de Bethesda (Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, 2003)
The Bethesda Statement defines scientific research and its objectives as: “an interdependent process where each experiment is informed by the results of others. The scientists who do research and the professional societies that represent them have a great interest in ensuring that the results of the investigations are correct. disseminated as immediately, widely and effectively as possible. Electronic publications of research results offer the opportunity and obligation to share research results, ideas and discoveries freely with the scientific community and the public. “
– Declaración de Berlín (Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, 2003)
The Berlin Declaration on Open Access establishes two conditions for open access:
1. The author(-s) and depositary(-s) of the intellectual property of such contributions must guarantee to all users equally, the free, irrevocable and worldwide right to access a scholarly work; as well as a license to copy, use, distribute, transmit and publicly display it; and to make and distribute derivative works in any digital medium, for any responsible purpose. All of this is subject to appropriate recognition of authorship (community standards will continue to provide the mechanisms to enforce proper recognition and responsible use of published works, as is now done), as well as the right to make a small number of print copies for your personal use.
2. A full version of the work and all its supplementary materials, including a copy of the permission mentioned above, in a convenient standard electronic format, is deposited (and thus published) in at least one electronic repository that uses standards acceptable techniques (such as the definitions of Open Access), which is supported and maintained by an academic institution, scholarly society, government agency, or an established organization seeking to implement open access, unrestricted distribution, interoperability, and long-term archival capacity.
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