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, the national 2011 "Ley de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación" (Science, Technology and Innovation Act) requires open access publishing for research that has been produced with public funding. The first peer-reviewed open access Spanish
journal A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to: *Bullet journal, a method of personal organization *Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period *Daybook, also known as a general journal, a ...
, ''Relieve'', began in 1995. Publishers
CSIC Press The Spanish National Research Council ( es, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Its main objective is to develop and promote res ...
and Hipatia Press belong to the international Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.


Repositories

There are a number of collections of scholarship in Spain housed in digital
open access repositories An open repository or open-access repository is a digital platform that holds research output and provides free, immediate and permanent access to research results for anyone to use, download and distribute. To facilitate open access such repositori ...
. They contain journal articles, book chapters, data, and other research outputs that are free to read. As of March 2018, the UK-based Directory of Open Access Repositories lists some 131 repositories in Spain. Those with the most digital assets include Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert, Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa, GREDOS (of Universidad de Salamanca), Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico (of Ministry of Culture), and
Digital CSIC The Spanish National Research Council ( es, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Its main objective is to develop and promote res ...
(of Spanish National Research Council). Related to this are SciELO and
DialNet The University of La Rioja (UR) is a public institution of higher education based in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. Inaugurated during 1992-1993 from various existing schools and colleges, it currently teaches Grades 19 adapted to the European Higher ...
. Most universities in Spain maintain an
institutional repository An institutional repository is an archive for collecting, preserving, and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of an institution, particularly a research institution. Academics also utilize their IRs for archiving published work ...
, collectively searchable via the "Recolecta" digital platform.


See also

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Copyright law of Spain Spanish copyright law governs copyright ( es, derechos de autor), that is the rights of authors of literary, artistic or scientific works, in Spain. It was first instituted by the Law of 10 January 1879, and, in its origins, was influenced by ...
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Education in Spain Education in Spain is regulated by the ''Ley Orgánica 8/2013, de 9 de diciembre, para la mejora de la calidad educativa'' (LOMCE, Organic Law for the improvement of educational quality) that expands upon Article 27 of the Spanish Constitution ...
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Internet in Spain This article is about the Internet in Spain. History RETD was the first public data network in the world when it became operational in 1972. It evolved into Iberpac. Status * Internet users: 42.40 million users; 91.0% of the population (202 ...
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List of libraries in Spain This is a list of libraries in Spain. National libraries * National Library of Spain Autonomous community libraries * Andalusia Library * Aragon Library * Asturias Library * Central Library of Cantabria * Castile and Leon Library * Casti ...
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Media of Spain Mass media in Spain includes a variety of online, print, and broadcast formats, such as radio, television, newspapers, and magazines. Mass media groups A list of the main mass media groups is presented as follows: Books Magazines Many in ...
* Open access in other countries *
Redalyc The Redalyc project (''Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal'') is a bibliographic database and a digital library of Open Access journals, supported by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México wit ...
(Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal) * Science and technology in Spain


References


Further reading

;in English * * * * * ;in Spanish * *


External links

* * (General information website about the progress of open access in Spain and other Spanish-speaking places) ** (Database of Spanish institutional repositories) ** (Database of journals) ** (Database of policies)
Lista OS-REPOSITORIOS
(listserv about implementation of repositories in Spain) * * * * * Academia in Spain Communications in Spain
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