Open access in Spain

In Spain, 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, Relieve, began in 1995. Publishers CSIC Press and Hipatia Press belong to the international Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.

There are a number of collections of scholarship in Spain housed in digital open access repositories. 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 (of Spanish National Research Council). Related to this are SciELO and DialNet.

Most universities in Spain maintain an institutional repository, collectively searchable via the "Recolecta" digital platform.

• Copyright law of Spain
• Education in Spain
• Internet in Spain
• List of libraries in Spain
• Media of Spain
• Open access in other countries
• Redalyc (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal)
• Science and technology in Spain

in English

• Grupo de Trabajo de “Depósito y Gestión de datos en Acceso Abierto” del proyecto RECOLECTA (Recolecta Working Group on “The depositing and management of data in Open Access”) (2012), Preservation and reuse of scientific data in Spain: Report of the good practices working group (PDF), FECYT
• Rosângela Schwarz Rodrigues; Ernest Abadal [in Catalan] (2014). "Scientific journals in Brazil and Spain: Alternative publishing models" (PDF). Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 65. US.
• Á. Borrego (2015). "Measuring compliance with a Spanish Government open access mandate". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 67 (4): 757–764. doi:10.1002/asi.23422. hdl:2445/66332. S2CID 20807814.
• Walt Crawford (2018). "Spain". Gold Open Access by Country 2012-2017. US: Cites & Insights Books.
• Maria‐Francisca Abad‐García (2018). "Effectiveness of OpenAIRE, BASE, Recolecta, and Google Scholar at finding Spanish articles in repositories". Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 69.

in Spanish

• "Open Data, expertos de #Sadiel nos proponen su #roadmap", Geek and Tech: Tecnología, Geeks, internet y mucho mas (in Spanish), 2012, archived from the original on 27 January 2012
• Informe de la Comisión de Seguimiento sobre el grado de cumplimiento del artículo 37 de la Ley de Ciencia [Report of the Monitoring Commission on the degree of compliance with Article 37 of the Science Law] (PDF) (in Spanish), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, 2016

• Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología; Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas (REBIUN). "Recolector de Ciencia Abierta: Buscador" [Search: Open Science Harvester]. Recolecta.fecyt.es (in Spanish).
• "Acceso Abierto". Accesoabierto.net (in Spanish and Catalan). (General information website about the progress of open access in Spain and other Spanish-speaking places)
  • "BuscaRepositorios". Accesoabierto.net (in Spanish). Universitat de Barcelona and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. (Database of Spanish institutional repositories)
  • "Dulcinea" (in Spanish). (Database of journals)
  • "Melibea" (in Spanish). (Database of policies)
• Lista OS-REPOSITORIOS (listserv about implementation of repositories in Spain)
• "Browse by Country: Europe: Spain". Registry of Open Access Repositories. UK.
• Peter Suber (ed.). "(Spain)". Open Access Tracking Project. Harvard University. OCLC 1040261573. News and comment from the worldwide movement for open access to research
• "Browse by Country: Spain". ROARMAP: Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies. UK: University of Southampton.
• "5th International Conference on Open Repositories, Madrid, Spain, July 6th - 9th, 2010". Archived from the original on 17 December 2014.
• "Our members: Spain". Sparceurope.org. SPARC Europe. Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition