Open access board
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in its commitment to open access goes a step further by creating the Open Access Commission.
Constitution: the 21st of June 2013 was established the UAB’s Open Access Commission commissioned by the Vice-Rectorate for Research.
Open Access Board
Members:
- Vice-Rector for Research
- Vice-Rector for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship
- Deputy Executive Administrator for Research
- Assistant to the Vice-Rector for Campus and Sustainability
- Information and Communications Technologies Manager
- Publishing Service Director
- Library Services Director
- Law Services Member
- Teaching and Research Staff members
- Library Service members
- Manager of the International Project Office
Functions: Open Access Commission acts as the "Open Access Advisory Council and UAB Digital Repository of Documents”. Its main functions are:
- To study and develop the Action Plan to Open Access at the UAB prepared by the Library Service in accordance with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona open access institutional policy
- To study and define an institutional positioning on open access
- To study how open access affect national and European projects
The Action Plan for Open Access at the UAB: The plan is the Commission roadmap detailing the actions to perform at UAB promoting open access. Among the actions already achieved include:
- Preparation and approval of the Política institucional d’accés obert de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Preparation and approval of the Política institucional d'accés obert per a les dades de recerca de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Signing of the Berlin Declaration
- The incorporation of ORCID at the UAB
- Preparation of the document: Creative Commons licenses recommended at the UAB
- UAB journals open access
- Connect DDD with EGRETA
- Establish procedures to incorporate self-archiving documents in DDD, that cannot be reached from EGRETA (teaching resources, ...)
- Create a web on Intellectual Property and Open Access for members of the university community.
- Organization of events during the Open Access Week and the Open Education Week
- Organization and management for the funding to publish in open access
Link to documents within the UAB scope:
- Creative Commons licenses recommended at the UAB (approved by the UAB’s Open Access Commission at its meeting of January 20, 2015, and revised on October 5, 2017 and January 9, 2020. Last revision approved in November 2022
- Regulation of the UAB Digital Repository of Documents (Agreement of the Governing Council on the 25thof April 2012) [in Catalan]
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona open access institutional policy approved by the decisions of the Commission of Inquiry no. 14/2012 on 16th February and the Governing Council, no. 46/2012 on April 25th. Last revision approved by Governing Council in December 2022
- Institutional Policy on Open Access to Research Data at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona drawn up by the Open Access Commission and approved by the Governing Council on 11 March 2020. Last revision approved by Governing Council in December 2022
- ORCID code