What is it?

Open Access to scientific information consists in publishing and/or depositing scientific production on the web guaranteeing free access and facilitating the reuse of contents.
 
International declarations on Open Access

• Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002)
• Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing (2003) 
• Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Science and Humanities (2003)
• The Hague declaration (2015)

Deposite in repositories (Green OA)
The deposit in repositories (self-archiving) guarantees access and long-term preservation. . The UAB makes available to the university community the Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (DDD), the institutional repository that compiles, manages, preserves and disseminates the scientific, educational and institutional production of the university. The PDI can deposit its research production from the self-archiving forms or from the EGRETA application. More information.