Resources and policies in the UPC for open scientific publication

• Open Access Institutional Policy of 2009 and mandate of allocation of PAR points 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 publishing and publishing magazines
• 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

Search data must be FAIR:

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

More information at:

• The FAIR data principles
• Guidelines on FAIR Data Management in Horizon 2020 

See also:

• How to develop a data management plan in the UPC
• How to publish open research data in the UPC 

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

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

• RES: infrastructure coordinated by the BSC
• REDIRIS

The current research evaluation system 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, evaluation agencies and universities to establish new criteria, public, transparent and adapted by disciplines to recognize research staff. These should follow the initiatives: 

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

Now UPC la regulations on research evaluation contemplates different indicators. 

More information:

• Next generation metrics CESAER, 2020
• J. Priem, D. Taraborelli, P. Groth, C. Neylon (2010), Altmetrics: The manifesto, 26 October 2010. 

Good research practices are based on fundamental principles of research integrity. 
 

Now UPC, Ethics Committee it has, among other things, the purpose of advising on the ethical aspects of research. It is pushing both the Code of Ethics of the UPC, such as the Research Integrity Code UPC based on the The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.

Citizen science is the open participation of the general public in research processes and activities. 

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

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

Now UPC the portal Apren increase the open access publication of teaching content prepared by teaching and research staff (PDI) improving its visibility and impact.

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 andResearch Area they offer courses in open science skills.