Open Access Environment in Spain:

How the ´Movement´ has Evolved and Current Emerging Initiatives

Reme Melero, IATA, CSIC rmelero@iata.csic.es

Workshop Open Access and Information Management, Oslo, 10 May 2006

Two roads to Open Access:

Green: Institutional or subjectrepositories

Gold: Open access journals OA

*Affiliation= refered country. ** Language= SpanishPMC (records aprox 14 million. Open-Jgate (records aprox. 240000

386623901787338386363(35665)(35665)

Germany

306188796589151523 (12727)23 (12727)Italy1601441**42651825514 (74504)14 (74504)Spain

IRs(Papers)

16417747844462100100184 184 (821535)(821535)

USA

6344319713426535369 (104708)69 (104708)UK

5663201411333 (1839)3 (1839)Norway299107502335 (4959)5 (4959)Portugal

365656Total OARs

5 (152)

Signatories

Open-JGate*

DOAJBMC*PMC*DOARROARBerlinD.

Some figures about OA in Spain vs other countries

Berlin Declaration Spanish Signatories

Autonomous Goverment of Canary Islands 22 October 2003

Universitat Jaume I 10 October 2005

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) 26 January 2006

University of A Coruña 26 January 2006

University of Lleida 10 February 2006

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya(UPC) - PFC/TFC/Tesines

13.Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya - PFC, TFC i Tesines12.Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya - DSpace.Revistes

UDCDspace. Universidade da Coruña

11.Universidade da Coruña. UDCDspace

10. Tiempos Modernos: Rev. Electrónica de Historia Moderna

TDX (Theses and Dissertations Online)

9. Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa (TDX)8. Tecnociencia : E-revistas7. Statistics and Operations Research Transactions

RECERCAT6. RECERCAT: Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya5. Intangible Capital

E-Prints Complutense4. E-Prints Universidad Complutense Madrid3. DIALNET: alert service2. DIALNET: Virtual library

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RACO- CBUC Images repository- CBUC (not yet)

Revistas Electronicas- Univ. Navarra DIGIBUG- Univ. Granada

Chile, 4, 1%

Sweden, 25, 4%

France, 29, 5%

Canada, 32, 5%

Brazil, 42, 7%

Germany, 61, 10%

United Kingdom, 69,

11%

United States, 182, 28%

Australia, 25, 4%

Italy, 22, 3%

India, 20, 3%

Netherlands, 18, 3%

Spain, 13, 2%

Portugal, 5, 1%

Norway, 3, 0%

ROAR

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by country

(Spain’s order= 12)

Total OARs = 656

United States, 100, 27%

United Kingdom, 53, 15%

Germany, 38, 10%France, 21, 6%

Canada, 18, 5%

Sweden, 17, 5%

Italy, 15, 4%

Australia, 14, 4%

Netherlands, 13, 4%

Brazil, 10, 3%

India, 8, 2%

Belgium, 8, 2%

Spain, 5, 1%

Portugal, 3, 1%

Norway, 3, 1%

Chile, 1

DOAR distribution by country (Spain’s order= 13)

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Eprints UCM http://www.ucm.es/eprints

Tesis doctorals en Xarxa http://www.tdx.cbuc.es/

RECERCAT http://www.recercat.net/

UPC Revistes http://e-revistes.upc.edu/

UPC tesines, PFC, TFC http://bibliotecnica.upc.edu/pfc

Spanish IRs vs number of records

OA journals and others….

e-revistas http://www.tecnociencia.es/e-revistas

Scielo Spain http://www.scielo.org

Directory of digitalization projects and OAI harvester

RepcsicPilot Institutional subject repository

Dspace:

Communities: Subject areas (8 CSIC)

Groups: Research Institutes

Aims: OA policy

OA advocacy

Authors OA promotion

Self-archiving culture

RepcsicSeveral steps:

1. Authors Survey

2. Technological implementation

3. Testing

4. Dissemination + promotion+ authors training

5. Evaluation

The questionaire (sample= 294; responses= 111, 38%)

1st. Personal data, place of work, e-mail, working area, sub-areas, keywords

2nd. Publishing habits (journals in which they published during last 5 years)

3rd. OA questions:

Have you ever heard about open access to scholarly publications?

Have you ever published in an OA journal?

Have you ever self-archive in an IR?

Do you have personal web page with links to your articles?

Do you read carefully the terms in copyright agreements?Are you aware of the restrictions of copyright publishers’ licences?

(comments)

Would you self-archive your works in an IR lile the one described above?

CSIC Food Research Institutes. Response distribution

I. LACTEOS3%

I. GRASA24%

I. MARINAS7%

I. FRIO18%

I. FERMENTACIONES

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CEBAS13%IATA

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No Journals= 144

Publishers= 57

Journals by archive policy. Data from ROMEO (classified 104 among 144; 94% allow selfarchiving)

62, 59%

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27, 26%

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Top publishers (9 among 57) by No. Journals (92 from 144, 66%)

Springer, 18

Wiley & Sons, 7

ACS, 2

Blackwell, 10

Marcel Dekker, 5

Taylor & Francis, 4

Food and Nutrition Press,

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Soc. General Microbiology, 4

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Journals frequency vs. Impact factor

Ten most popular journals among 144 (60 % allow selfarchiving)

Appl Environ Microb

Int J Food Microbiol

Food Chem

Food Res Int

J Food Sci

J Food Protect

Food Sci Technol Int

J Agr Food Chem

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REPCSIC. Authors answers related to OA questions [n= 294, response= 111 (rate= 38%)]

Future projects:

E-Madroño (Consortium Universities of Madrid)

Univ. Almeria

Univ. Zaragoza

OPis (CSIC, INTA, ….)

Thank you!

Reme Melero, IATA, CSIC rmelero@iata.csic.es

Workshop Open Access and Information management, Oslo, 10 May