XIII Open Access Week (October 25-31, 2021)

What are we talking about when we talk about Open Science at the UPC?

• Check out the new website about open science

CORA. Research Data Repository  

• CORA-RDR is a repository of research data from Catalan universities and CERCA centers.
• To publish datasets following FAIR criteria, the research staff of the UPC hasUPCommons Research Data and CORA-RDR for data collections larger than 2GB.

Open Access Measurement Report in Spanish universities and the CSIC 

• Second edition of theReport prepared by REBIUN. It analyzes the situation and the evolution of the publication in open access during the period 2016-2020.
• To know the data relating to the UPC see the graphic Next.

Most consulted academic works

• The BRGF presents thereport of the 10 academic papers published in 2019 and 2020 by the ETSECCPB, ETSETB and the FIB that have been most consulted throughUPCommons
• The BCBL presents thereport which shows the 15 most consulted TFGs of the EETAC and EEABB during 2021
• The BCT presents thereport of the most consulted academic works of the Terrassa Campus during 2020. You can also consult the infographics of the most consulted academic works for each school.
  • ESEIAAT 
  • FOOT
  • CITM

The EEBE Library promotes the publication of open access TFGs among its students

• See infografia and the 5 most downloaded EEBE TFGs during the year 2020

2015-2020 Final Degree projects in open access to the EPSEB

• The EPSEB Library presents a infografia of the list of the last 5 years of the TFG of the fields of building and geomatics in open access

10 reasons to post on UPCommons the final works of studies 

• See infografia and the video  to know why to publish to UPCommons

Most consulted doctoral theses

• The BRGF presents the 25 doctoral theses UPC published in 2019 and 2020 that have been most consulted throughUPCommons.

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Exhibitions of open access journals at the ETF 

• Physical exhibition of covers of OA publications in the field of sailing with the QR for consultation

Pay attention to social media 

• The EEBE Library disseminates photographs and reflections of researchers from the Besòs campus via Instagram (@bibliotecaeebe) and Twitter (@BiblioEEBE)
• The Library BCUM disseminates resources UPC to spread this paradigm shift via Instagram (@bcum_library)

XII Open Access Week (19-25 October 2020)

Let the data not be a nightmare!

• You are a doctoral student at UPC? Check out the video that will help you organize your research data by making a Data Management Plan. 

Watch the video

Organize your research project files

• Nova infografia i recommendations to organize, name, and version files in research projects.

Academic works of the ETSECCPB, ETSETB and the FIB most consulted

• The BRGF presents the academic papers of the ETSECCPB, ETSETB and the FIB presented in 2018 and 2019 most consulted. 

Most consulted doctoral theses 

• The BRGF presents the doctoral theses read on the UPC in 2018 and 2019 most consulted.  

What do you know about open science?

• Play and check what you know about open science with this online game prepared by the Terrassa Campus Library.

Test yourself and play!

Before you buy an item ....

• See infografia which tells you the widgets for finding open access items: Unpaywall, Google Scholar Button, Open Access Button, Kopernio, etc.

All open access journals in the Open Access Jo Directoryurnto (DOAJ)

• See the lens assembly tutorial DOAJ to find out about all the open access journals in your subject area: agriculture, science and naval science, technology, etc. 
• The DOAJ is the online directory that indexes open access journals of proven scientific quality and with peer review. 

Thermometer and Open Access Observatory

• See the lens assembly tutorial Thermometer and theOpen Access Observatory to know the degree of publication in open access to the UPC and the rest of Catalan universities.  

Magazine carousel in open access and with impact factor

Open access and open science on Twitter

• Don't miss this year's microMOOC !. Every day, from October 21 to 25, from the Twitter account @moocmicro Tweets will be given on different aspects of open science such as data management and preservation, research evaluation, responsible research and innovation, and so on.
• The schedules are:  
  • 09.00 h (english) #OpenScienceMOOC19 
  • 10.00 h (Catalan) # ScienceObertaMOOC19     
  • 11.00 h (Spanish) #CienciaAbiertaMOOC19 

• You can also follow it through the libraries of the #upc following the hashtags  #OAweek2019 i #OpenAccessUPC.

Are you a final year student? That interests you

• Wednesday, October 23, from 11.30:12.30 a.m. to 25:XNUMX p.m., Classroom XNUMX of theESABs we are waiting for the talk by students and the library about TFG, Open Access and UPCommons.
  • Consol Garcia and Juanjo Castro Triay (graduate in Food Engineering) - "What is open access? How does it affect me?"
• Oriented to undergraduate and master's students.

Library party a Vilanova

• On Thursday, October 24, we invite you to celebrate World Libraries Day and participate in the Instagram competition of the EPSEVG Library
• Dynamics of the Instagram contest:
  • Upload a photo where you appear in any of the spaces in the EPSEVG library
  • Make a comment mentioning what you like most about this space using #festbibepsevg
  • Mention the@bibupcvilanova in the comment
• Prize: a T-shirt UPC (the winner will be chosen by lottery and we will announce the same day 24 at 13.30 h)

Scientific publication and open access

• Friday, October 25, in Room 028-2 of theEETAC There will be two conferences aimed at young researchers, PDI and PhD students:
  • "MDPI and the futuror open access "by  MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), open scientific journal of scientific journals, 11.00 has 11.45 h
  • "Publish or not publish: Is this the question?" by the teacher Ramon Pallàs from 11.45 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

Research Café: Research sample on the Castelldefels Campus

• Wednesday, 30 October, in Room 004 Ed. Campus D7 Baix Llobregat, coffee with 3 researchers who will explain their research:
  • Oscar Casas: Technology and disability (09.30 h)
  • Enric Pastor: The dron technology (10.00 h)
  • Clara Prats: Fighting against tuberculosis with computational models (11.00 h)
• Oriented to the PAS but open to everyone!
• Check out the presentations at UPCommons

What do we show in the world ?: information resources UPC in open access

• Thursday, October 31 from 13.00:14.00 pm to XNUMX:XNUMX pm at EPSEVG Library, informative talk on the resources of the UPC And how we project the University around the world thanks to open access! We'll talk to you aboutUPCommons, Geocommons, Digital Memory, etc.
• Addressed to the PDI 

What do you know about open science?

• Play and check what you know about open science with this online game prepared by the Terrassa Campus Library.

Test yourself and play!

FIB Academic Works

• The Gabriel Ferraté Rector Library and the Faculty of Computer Science of Barcelona present FIB Academic Works, an analysis of the works deposited in UPCommons. 

FIB Academic Works

Datasets a UPCommons  

• Why publish datasets in open and why a UPCommons? The teacher David Parcerisa of the Polytechnic College of Manresa (EPSEM) explains in a video Your experience of publishing datasets on UPCommons.

Before paying for an article ....

• A infografia which tells you useful widgets like Unpaywall, Google Scholar Button or Open Access Button to find open access items.

How to make a research data management plan with the DMP tool?

• Infographic About the WWW address addressed to researchers with 2020 Horizon projects.

What are the most quoted open articles? The most consulted theses and TFEs?

The BRGF presents different studies that show the most impactful academic papers.

• Consultation ranking of the doctoral theses of the UPC published in 2017 and 2018.
• Consultation ranking of the academic work of the centers of the Campus Nord UPC: works published in 2017 and 2018. 
• Open accessibility of articles UPC published the 2018 

Open access and open science to social networks 

Pay attention to social networks during the International Open Access Week!

• Libraries @BibliotecaETSAB, @BiblioEEBE I la @BibliotecaCN They will broadcast the science open through Twitter and Instagram.
• And every day, from 22 to 26 in October, participate in a MicroMOOC on Twitter where informative bulletins will be made through the account @moocmicro. The Tables will deal with different aspects of Open Access: general information, open publication, open data, open science ...
• The schedules are: 
  - 10: 00h MicroMOOC in Catalan with the hashtag #OAMOOC
  - 12: 00h MicroMOOC in English with the hashtag #OAMOOC18
• You can also follow it through the libraries of the #upc following the hashtags #OAweek2018 i #OpenAccessUPC

 Winning Horizon 2020 with Open Science  

• Monday 22 October, from 13pm to 14pm webinar on open science and H2020 projects: "Winning Horizon 2020 with Open Science", by Ivo Grigorov (FOSTER and Technical University of Denmark).
• The aim of the webinar is to support researchers who will soon present H2020 project proposals to include aspects of open science in their proposals. Pre-registration required. 
• Previously, it is recommended to follow the recommended presentations. 
• Inscriptions (indicating if you want an individual query) to: Open Science Clinique
• More information about the webinar
• Access to webinar https://c.deic.dk/open-science-clinique/  Enter as a guest, fill out the name and click Enter room. 

Workshop: "MDPI and the futuror open access "   

• Tuesday, October 23, from 12 to 13:30 p.m., workshop "MDPI and the futuror open access", by Antonio Peteira del MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), publisher of open access scientific journals.
• Attendees will enjoy an additional discount (20%) if they publish an article in their journals, plus the 10% that the publisher applies to the institutional members.
• The workshop is free and in Spanish and will be held at the 'Aula Capella de l'ETSEIB (Campus Sud).
• Registration is required through this form.

Micro-mooc over Open Access: Follow it on #OAMOOC via @moocmicro    

• From 23 to 27 in October, from the 12h., A micro-mooc took place #OAMOOC via @moocmicro on Twitter about basic concepts and concepts about # accessobert. You can view Storify (content by topic):
  • Introduction to open access
  • Publish in Open access
  • Publication and copyright licenses
  • Research data
  • Visibility and impact
• Also it was possible to be followed through the libraries of the #UPC through the hashtags #OAWeek #UPC.

Workshop: "Behind the Scenes of Academic Publishing: A Publisher's Perspective"  

• Last 24 Tuesdays from October, from 11 to 13h, in the TR1 Conference Room of the Terrassa Campus, the "workshop on the academic publication process" took place in charge of MDPI, publishing of scientific magazines in open access of multidisciplinary field. You can see the presentations:
  • Academic open access publishing
  • Writing academic papers: where to start
• Attendees will enjoy an additional discount (20%) until October 2019 if you publish an article in their journals, plus the 10% that the publisher applies to institutional members.
• Registration was required through this form.

Workshop "Publish in open in journals of the editorial Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)" 

• Last Wednesday 26, from 12: 00 to 13: 30h on 'Master Class (Campus Nord - UPC), the workshop took place MDPI and publication in open access Addressed to University Researchers by MDPI, an editorial that publishes open-access and multidisciplinary scientific journals. For more information, consult the section Editorials with discounts for the UPC. 
• Attendees will enjoy an additional 25% discount, until November of 2018, if they publish an article in any of their magazines.
• Callus pre-registration.

ORCID Day 

• Last Wednesday 26, from 10: 30 to 16: 30h, the Library of theETSAB (School of Architecture of Barcelona), organized a stand in the hall of the School with information about the identifier ORCID and open access magazines in the field of architecture, urban planning and construction.

Lecture "Post open"

• Thursday 27, at 15: 00h at Manresa University Campus Library, the conference took place Publish in Open access in charge of Dr. Ignasi Labastida, responsible for the Office of Dissemination of Knowledge of the University of Barcelona and representative of Creative Commons Licenses (CC) in Spain.
• Callus confirm attendance.

Tool for developing a Data Management Plan

• Within the framework of CSUC (Consorci de Servicios Universitarios de Catalunya), universities have adapted the tool DMP Online of the Digital Curation Center, which serves as a template to generate a data management plan, mandatory requirement from the 2017 for all H2020 funded projects.
• You have to sign up for the application and the system keeps the different plans prepared by each researcher.

Articles UPC Most mentioned published in 2015 in open access

• The Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library has prepared the document Open accessibility of articles UPC published in 2015: analysis of the most cited articles 25, where the 25 articles published in the 2015 most mentioned are presented and the degree of opening to different platforms, such as UPCommons, ArXiv.org, ResearchGate and the publishing website.
• The results of the analysis show that 20 of the most cited articles 25 published in 2015 are in open access; Among these, the 11 most cited articles.

New version of the educational content repository UPC OpenCourseWare (OCW)

• The new version of the tool is launched to publish educational contents in open access UPC OCW.
• Pioneering initiative, born in MIT at 2001, to show the content and use of university content in its teaching activity on the Internet and in open access, favoring its visibility and reuse.

New version of the Magazines service UPC

• The scientific journal and its articles are, still today, the main instrument to disseminate the results of the research. The universities, and among them the UPC, are among the great publishers of academic journals.
• In the 2013 year, the SBPA launched the portal Journals UPC, which provides all the university publishers that want to use it, an effective tool for the optimization of their publishing processes. During the open access week, a new version of the service is put into operation, which greatly improves its performance.

OpenAIRE Webinars 

• Monday 24: "The fundamentals of Open Science" imparted by Tony Ross-Hellauer (OpenAIRE, University of Goettingen), Paola Masuzzo (Ghent University) and Chris Hartgerink (Tilburg University).
• Tuesday 25: "H2020 Open Access mandate for project coordinators and researchers" imparted by Eloy Rodrigues and Pedro Principe (University of Minho).
• Wednesday 26: "Open Research Data in H2020 and Zenodo repository" imparted by Marjan Grootveld (DANS) and Krzysztof Nowak (CERN).
• Thursday 27: "Policies for Open Science: webinar for research managers and policy makers" imparted by Marina Angelaki and Alma Swan (PASTEUR4OA) and Tony Ross-Hellauer (OpenAIRE).
• Friday 28: "OpenAIRE guidelines and broker service for repository managers "(Friday 28) taught by Pedro Principe (University of Minho) and Paolo Manghi (CNR / ISTI).

Data in open access

• New page about the open search data and how to meet the requirements of the H2020 pilot program programs.
• Management of open search data: why?

Publish in Open access

• New version of the Guide to publish in open access to the UPC

Magazines with impact factor and other quality indicators

• Selection of journals in open access and with impact factor for the different subject areas of the UPC.
• You can also see the covers of a selection of magazines in Catalog of the Libraries of the UPC.

Round table online REBIUN-UNED

La Network of University Libraries CRUE (REBIUN / CRUE) and the National University of Distance Education (UNED) organized an online round table during the open access week:

Friday, 23 October, 15: 00-16: 00h

• Collaborative science and open access: repositories as an E-Science tool.
• Participants have been members of the REBIUN Repository Working Group: Isabel Calzas González (UNED), Victoria Rasero Merino (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Tránsito Ferreras Fernádez (Universidad de Salamanca), José Manuel Barrueco (Universidad de Valencia), Jordi Prats (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).

Infographics 

Check the open access infographics prepared by the Network of University Libraries CRUE (REBIUN / CRUE) and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT)

• Versions of scientific articles and open access   
• Benefits of publishing in institutional repositories 
• How to comply with open access mandates
• How to preserve copyright before publishers

Open International Access Week

• Check out the international events that were held this year during the Open Access Week under the slogan "Open for Collaboration"
• At national level you can check the actions in OAW2015

Eight reasons to post on UPCommons

Publication of the 8 infographic reasons to post on UPCommons in Catalan, Spanish and English.

Magazines with impact factor and other quality indicators     

• Schoice of them magazines in open access and with impact factor for the different thematic areas.

OpenAIRE Webinars

OpenAIRE in collaboration with the project FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research) organize webinars related to Open Access Mandate and Open Data for Research.

Monday 20 October, 15: 00 h

• OpenAIRE Portal by Katerina Latropoulo (NKUA).

Tuesdays 21 October, 15: 00 h

• Horizon 2020 Open Research Data Pilot by Sarah Jones (DCC) in collaboration with FOSTER.

Wednesday 22 October, 15: 00 h

• Horizon 2020 Open Access to Publications Mandate by Eloi Rodrigues (UMinho) in collaboration with FOSTER.

Thursday 23 October, 15: 00 h

• Zenodo by Lars Holm Nielsen (CERN).

Do you want the Open Access Button?

•   Aremained theOpen Access Button in your bookmarks to report that you can not access the articles that interest you. 

Online seminars FECYT-REBIUN

La Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the Network of University Libraries CRUE (REBIUN / CRUE) organize during the open access week online seminars that you can consult through the platform SocialBiblio. 

Wednesday 22 October, 10: 00h

• Presentation of the Guide for the evaluation of repositories and the validator RECOLECTAsystem. (José Manuel Barrueco y Pilar Rico-Castro).

Thursday 23 October, 10: 00h

• The indentifiers in the scientific literature. Why ORCID?system. (Consol García Gómez).

Friday 24 October, 10: 00h

• ORCID identifiers and open access: practical applications. Speaker: Pablo de Castro.

Online seminars 

La Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the Network of University Libraries (REBIUN) organized during the week of theOpen access through the platform SocialBiblio, four seminars Online and a roundtable to promote the benefits of open access between the academic community and researcher. 

• Introduction and presentation of the OA Week 2013. Cristina González Copeiro.
• Research data: reflections on your open access. Fernanda Peset and Luis-Millán González.
• Europeana Data Model, Linked Open Data profile for archives, Libraries and Museums. Xavier Agenjo Bullón.
• Zenodo: share research data in Europe. Pedro Príncipe.
• CRIS / Repository integration: systematizing open access. Pablo de Castro.
• Roundtable: open access in Spain: services, projects, results. 

You can check all the information about it program of activities on the FECYT page.

Videoconferencing with Eelco Ferwerda

Eelco Ferwerda is president of theAssociation of European University Presses and director of the project Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN). 1995 is dedicated to the electronic publication and the open publication model. In recognition of his work for OAPEN he received the Dutch prize SURFshare Open Access.

• With the title A short tour of OA book publishing and the project bid "Going for Gold", Eelco Ferwerda spoke about OAPEN, a network of publishers that promote the publication of open access to e-books.

Round table: Post open

• The last 23 in October took place one roundtable Addressed to the researchers of the UB and the UPC and also of other collectives, with the aim of making the authors aware of the benefits of publishing openly.
• You can check them presentations a UPCommons.

Sign the Declaration in favor of the right to open research

• Do you think open access should be the preferred publishing model among the scientific community? Do you think that researchers, universities, governments and research funding agencies should support the publication openly?
• With these questions, the libraries of the UPC They wanted to encourage students to sign the Declaration in favor of the right to open research. Read the Catalan translation of "The Right to Research Coalition".

Magazines in open access and with impact factor

• The thematic librarians have made a selection (not exhaustive) of open access magazines and with an impact factor for the thematic areas of teaching and research of the UPC.

Participate! Libraries ask

• With the objective of knowing in what channels of communication the researchers of the UPC, a survey was conducted during the Open Access Week. Results: open access public?

Videoconferencing with Grace Baynes

Grayce Baynes is Public Relations of Nature Publishing Group (NPG), one of the most prestigious publishers of scientific publications with a high impact factor in the field of physics, chemistry, applied sciences and clinical medicine. 

You can see the presentation of Grace Baynes where he talks about the policy of related Nature with open access 

Virtual space to make inquiries and resolve doubts

Pep Simó, founder of several open access publications, member of the Open Access Scholarly Publisher Association (OASPA) and lecturer at the Department of Business Organization of the UPC, has resolved doubts about open access throughout the week.

Magazine prices where it is most published

Graphic representation of the subscription cost of those publications where the POI of the UPC It has published more during the 2008-2010 period.

Informative pills 

• UPCommons: portal of open access to the knowledge of the UPC. What is?
• UPCommons: portal of open access to the knowledge of the UPC. How to access them?
• Open access and Creative Commons licenses

Open access according to ...

• Jordi Garcia Ojalvo. Departamento de Física y Ingeniería Nuclear
• Pep Simó. Department of Business Organization
• Martí Rosas Casals. Department of Heat Engines and Machines
• Núria Lupón Bas. Department of Optics and Optometry

Why is open access important ?: Some members of the UPC they think

Comments about open access

Interview with the professor of the Department of Physics Applies, Enrique Garcia Berro

Last October of 2009, the Library, Publications and Archives Service interviewed Professor Enrique Garcia Berro to discuss the international movement that promotes open access to the results of the investigations.