The agents of the Spanish System of Science and Technology will promote the development of institutional or aggregated repositories to allow open access to the publications of their researchers
The researchers, whose research had been granted with public funds shall make publicly available a digital version of their own final draft (peer-reviewed and accepted for publication) as soon as possible, but not later than 6 months after the official date of the publication of this final draft.
This final version will be made publicly available in open access repositories, disciplinary or institutional.
The public digital version deposited in the repositories can be used in the evaluation processes by Public Administrations.
Comment. Kudos to all involved. I applaud the mandatory language, the maximum six month embargo, the choice of repositories for researchers, and the public support for the launch of new repositories.
Also see our past post anticipating the new draft law.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
