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The University of Valencia’s commitment to Open Science has been evident since 2008, when it joined the Berlin Declaration and launched its institutional repository, RODERIC. Over the years, this commitment has also materialised through the progressive improvement of existing open science infrastructures, the implementation of new ones, as well as the adhesion, in December 2022, to COARA, which integrates the principles of open science into research assessment.
In 2025, the University of Valencia approved its Open Science Policy (AGUV 256/2025), which establishes the creation of an Open Science Committee as a body for coordination, supervision, and technical and strategic advisory activities in the field of open science.
This website will provide information on the work of the Open Science Committee and will serve as the access point for strategic advisory enquiries addressed to the university community.
Open Science is a model of science that involves an “open” view of all the phases or processes of scientific research. It represents a structural change in the way both research and the dissemination of its results are conceived, and it is characterised by openness not only in publications (Open Access), but also in research data, methodologies and the processes involved. Ultimately, its aim is to make science and research more accessible to everyone.
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COARA is the acronym for Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment. It is an international coalition of scientific organizations that aims to achieve a systemic reform of research assessment based on the principles of diversity, inclusiveness, and openness. The University of Valencia joined the coalition in 2022.
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Open access repositories and digital archives are virtual spaces, supported by database systems, where scientific documentation of all kinds and in all possible formats can be deposited. Their main objective is to organise, store, preserve and disseminate, in open access mode (Open Access), the intellectual output resulting from the academic and research activity of an institution. The University of Valencia has its own institutional repository called RODERIC, created in 2008, the same year the University of Valencia adhered to the Berlin Declaration. Teaching materials, publications, institutional documentation and other contents are deposited in this repository. You can consult the help guide for further information: https://uv-es.libguides.com/roderic
There are also general or subject-based repositories, which allow large datasets to be stored for reuse and consultation. Examples include Zenodo and Figshare. For more information, you can consult our guide: https://uv-es.libguides.com/gestiodedades
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NO, they are independent infrastructures that operate in parallel. The RODERIC repository is fed by the production deposited in GREC, while the Scientific Production Portal draws directly from WoS, Scopus and Dialnet. For ANECA evaluation purposes, depositing work in a repository (RODERIC or any subject-based or general repository) is taken into account.
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Journal editorial policies determine the permissions that authors usually grant as part of the copyright transfer agreement to each publisher. A useful tool for finding out about journals’ editorial policies is JISC Open Policy Finder https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/. In addition, each journal’s website provides information about its publication policies and criteria.
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Creative Commons (CC) licences are a free legal tool that allows creators to publicly share their work and enables users to use works protected by copyright without requesting permission, although under certain conditions. There are six main types of CC licences, defined by the combination of four conditions: Attribution (BY), Non-Commercial (NC), No Derivatives (ND) and Share Alike (SA).
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Predatory journals publish research articles without applying the quality standards typical of academic journals, for example, without carrying out external evaluation or peer review processes. As a result, articles published in them may lack academic validity. They usually require authors to pay a fee, which may be lower than that charged by other journals, making it an attractive lure for researchers. To help you identify them, we recommend consulting our guide: https://uv-es.libguides.com/frauseditorials
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Research data include any material collected, analysed and created during the research process that serves to validate research results.
Data may be numerical, descriptive or visual, may be in raw or processed form, and may be experimental, observational or computational. Examples of research data include laboratory notebooks, tests, questionnaires, photographs, images, audio or video files, designs and prototypes, among others. Proper data management allows data to be consulted and reused in future research related to the topic. You can find more information by consulting the guide: https://uv-es.libguides.com/gestiodedades
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A DMP describes the strategies for collecting, processing, archiving, preserving and publishing data within a research project. The plan must be created at the beginning of the funded research project and may be modified or completed throughout the research lifecycle. Since 2017, projects receiving public funding are required to prepare a Data Management Plan. The plan must be submitted within the first six months and kept up to date throughout the project. In addition, open data must be deposited in a public repository, providing open access and enabling their exploitation, reproduction and dissemination whenever possible. To learn more, you can consult our guide: https://uv-es.libguides.com/gestiodedades/pladegestio
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The FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) refer to how research data should be handled so that they are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. There are tools that allow you to check whether your data meet these principles. You can consult them here: https://uv-es.libguides.com/gestiodedades/principisFAIR
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APCs are fees charged by publishers to authors for publishing articles in open access. These costs may be covered by the author, the institution to which they belong, or the body funding the research. They generally correspond to the expenses generated by the review, production and publication of the article, and the amount varies depending on the journal. Commercial publishers usually offer two models for open access publishing through the payment of APCs:
Fully open access journals. This is known as Gold Open Access.
Hybrid journals, in which open access articles (through the payment of APCs) coexist with articles that can only be accessed via subscription and whose use is restricted by copyright legislation.
You can find more information about publishers offering APCs to the University of Valencia on the Servei de Biblioteques website
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