• VI Open Science Conference at the UPC: June 18, 2025
• V Open Science Conference at the UPC: June 21, 2024
  • A year of open science at the UPC:
    Exhibition for the 5th Open Science Conference at the UPC which shows the most outstanding performances in open science during the year 2023.
• IV Open Science Conference at UPC: June 28, 2023
• III Open Science Conference at the UPC: June 30, 2022
• II Open Science Conference at the UPC: 50 of Science Consciously, January 26, 2021
• I Open Science Conference at the UPC: Open Science in Research Projects, January 23, 2020

Scientific publication

Resources and policies in the UPC for open scientific publication

• Open Access Institutional Policy of 2009 and mandate of allocation of PAR points out of 2014 
• How to publish in open access the publications for the fulfillment of theH2020, Horizon Europe, Science Law and PAR points
• Open access monitoring: the Thermometer and theObservatory of open access
• Journals UPC in open access: platform for the editing, publication of journals and calls for grants for the editing and publication of open access digital research journals
• Declaration in favor of open and sustainable access (2020)
• Transformative agreements and grants for open access publication in the UPC

What are the new challenges at European and global level?

• "Plan S ”. Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications. Document prepared in 2018 by a group of national organizations (Spain is not included) with the help of the European Commission and the European Research Council (ERC) with l0 principles with the aim of promoting open and immediate access before 1 January 2020 for all publications funded by the European Commission. 
• SPARC EUROPE Report "Open Access: An Analysis of Publisher Copyright and Licensing Policies in Europe, 2020"on the management of intellectual property rights and licenses of major European scientific publishers

Open education

Open education responds to a new way in which people must produce, share and build knowledge by providing quality open educational resources.

To the UPC:

• the portal Apren it shows the teaching materials produced by the teaching and research staff, increasing their visibility.
• the portal the MOOC in beta phase shows the open courses developed by the UPC, accessible to everyone and with no limit on participants.  
• the MOOC Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education developed within the framework ofAlliance Unite!

Search data must be FAIR:

• Findable: findable
• Accessible: accessible
• Interoperable: interoperable
• Rusable: reusable 

More information at:

• The FAIR dates principles
• Horizon Europe General Model Grant Agreement  

See also:

• Regulation UPC research data management
• How to develop a data management plan in the UPC
• How to publish FAIR search data to the UPC
• Research data UPC

Participatory Science becomes a key element in intensifying the interaction between the university and society, promoting research that responds to social challenges, generates shared knowledge and contributes to achieving scientific excellence and transformative innovation.

El Citizen science portal of the UPC It presents: 

• all research projects that require the collaboration of citizens to obtain results
• a set of resources aimed at research staff to involve citizens in their projects

By 2024, the UPC approved the Social and Community Commitment Program of the UPC, Social Links UPC with 4 driving axes: LivingLAB, learning and service, citizen science and social volunteering.

The current system of research evaluation is mainly based on the impact factor of journals and does not favor the implementation of open science. For this reason, the European Commission urges funding bodies, assessment agencies and universities to establish new, public, transparent and discipline-specific criteria to recognize research staff following: 

• San Francisco Declaration on Scientific Evaluation (DORA)
• Leiden Manifesto on Research Indicators

and has boosted the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (COARA) of which the UPC is part of it 

To the UPC la regulations on research evaluation considers different indicators. More information about bibliometric indicators and accreditations.informació

Other metrics for publications: 

•  visits to the publisher version and repository UPCommons
•  downloads of publisher and repository versions UPCommons
•  mentions on social media: Twitter, Mendeley, Blogs, Media
•  highly cited articles according to ESI

Scientific production of a research group or project: 

• percentage of open access publications

More information:

• Next generation metrics CESAER, 2020. [In this paper the Altmetrics Expert Group describes how to advance next-generation metrics in the context of open science].
• J. Priem, D. Taraborelli, P. Groth, C. Neylon (2010), Altmetrics: The manifesto, October 26, 2010. 

At European and national level, different initiatives are being promoted in relation to research infrastructures

EOSC (European Open Science Cloud)

Infrastructure created by the European Commission in 2016 with the aim that members of the scientific community can store, manage and access digital scientific data and resources in a secure and accessible environment.

• EOSC
• El CSUC and the CORA. Research Data Repository (RDR) have made significant progress in becoming official service providers within the EOSC, actively contributing to the advancement of research, driving data reuse and promoting the values ​​of open science for the benefit of scientific community in general.

readings: 

• EOSC (2021). Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). [Ixelles: EOSC]. Version 1.0 15 February 2021. 195 p. Available in:https://www.eosc.eu/sites/default/files/EOSC-SRIA-V1.0_15Feb2021.pdf>
• Anglada, L. Open Science: the EOSC strategy and UNESCO recommendations. Bible block [on line]. 2022, Available at:https://www.ub.edu/blokdebid/es/content/ciencia-abierta-la-estrategia-del-eosc-y-las-recomendaciones-de-la-unesco>.

ICT Infrastructures for Open Science at the national level (ICTS)

• ORS: infrastructure coordinated by the BSC
• REDIRIS

The shift from culture to open science involves promoting the training of the entire university community to develop skills, especially in the areas of: 

• open scientific publication
• FAIR search data
• the integrity of research
• citizen science 

The Library, Publications and Archives Service withintraining offer of the Institute of Education Sciences offers a course in skills in open science.

Access to Open Science Tutorials prepared by other universities or by projects financed by the European Commission.

Course designed by Gareth O'Neill and Ivo Grigorov for open science training for novice researchers from Eurodoc associations and is now available to everyone. Course held in August 2019 and facilitated by Roberta Moscon in an Erasmus + Staff Exchange.

• Eurodoc Open Science Ambassador Training 

Courses that answer the most common questions about the implementation of open science.

• FOSTER Portal on OpenPlato
• Open Science Training Manual

Webinars on Open Science and research data management

• Open Science and research data management

Course organized in modules to understand the key aspects of open science

• Open Science: sharing your research with the world

Webinars on open science policies in Horizon Europe (HE) 

• Webinars

Material deposited on GitHub related to the Open Science course of the degree in Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge at the University of Bologna. Course 2020/2021

• Open Science course