Spain
Last updated on 
11 May 2020

National Open Access Desk

  • Overview

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    Support and Landscape

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    National Initiatives

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  • Open Science Policy

    National Policy

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    Funder policy

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    Institutional Policy

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  • Infrastructure & EOSC

    Key networks & Aggregators

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    Data repositories

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    National publishing initiatives

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    National agreements with publishers

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    OA books

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  • Training & Support

    FECYT performs continuous educational activities and outreach for researchers, librarians, project managers, policy makers, etc. The offer includes expert training workshops, participation in seminars, conferences and training events, both face-to-face or in e-learning format. The subjects go from Open Access basics, policy development advice and repository managing, to research data management,

    In addition, during 2019 FECYT organised two national workshops. The first one in June about The role of Biomedical libraries in the context of Open Access, hold at the National Library of Health Sciences of the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII), in Madrid. The second one was held in September in Leon with the title New OpenAIRE services for repository managers, aiming in particular to present the 4.0 Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers version and the new Dashboards for Content Providers.

    To ask for a training or support session, don’t hesitate to contact us at

  • Statistics

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  • News

    04 November 2019
    On 25th September 2019 the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), Spanish NOAD for OpenAIRE, organized a workshop previous to the XVIII Rebiun Workshop and the VIII Jornadas OS Repositorios, about "New OpenAIRE services for repository managers". The main purpose of the workshop was to present new OpenAIRE services, in particular the Guidelines for Literature Reposito...
    04 November 2019
    Biomedical and Health Sciences libraries can be quite diverse and heterogeneous, and sometimes they are managed by librarians working in isolation, without institutional repositories or other open access infrastructure. In order to help biomedical libraries dealing with these challenges, the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) in collaboration with the National Library of Health ...
    27 April 2018
    In January 2018, Spanish Government published the State Plan for Research, Development and Innovation 2017-2020 that includes important news on open access to scientific publications and research data. The State Plan is the main instrument of the State Government for developing and achieving those objectives set at the Spanish Strategy for Science and Technology and Innovation 2013-2020, and at th...
    13 December 2017
    The workshop, organised by OpenAIRE Spanish NOAD in collaboration with FOSTERPlus project took place as an associated event of “ECA - Ecosistemas del Conocimiento Abierto”, a major event in Spain for the open access and repository community, during Open Access Week. The main focus of the workshop was to introduce to researchers and research managers European and State-level open science related po...
    28 November 2016
    During Open Access Week FECYT took part of an event in Madrid organized by REBIUN, the network of university libraries in Spain, two of the major library consortia CSUC (Catalonia) and Madroño (Madrid) and FECYT itself. The event gathered the two major existing initiatives nowadays related to research data management and research data repositories in university libraries in Spain and besides that,...
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