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Pillars of open science are often included within the editorial pol-icies of scholarly journals, including policies on open access publication,availability of underlying research data, preprints and open peer review. Theaim of this paper is to examine and analyse perceptions and editorial prac-tices related to open access, preprints, open research data and open peerreview, from the perspective of editors of scientific journals published inSpain, to gain an insight into editorial policies related to open science.Results and data were obtained by a combined method of online interviewsand an online questionnaire. The online survey was sent to editors fromjournals indexed in the Dulcinea directory, which at the time of the studyincluded 1875 academic journals. A total of 420 responses (22.4%) wereobtained. The results indicated that 92% of the journals were open accessjournals, 2% of the journals conducted open peer review, 15% of thejournals had instructions to allow archiving preprints, and out of375 responses, only 59 journals (16%) reported having a policy on underly-ing research data. Based on these results, there is a trend in favour of openaccess, but the perceived barriers to open peer review outweighed theadvantages. There is also some reluctance to allow preprints to be madeavailable. This concern might be because editors want authors and readersto read and cite the contents published in their journals, rather than theirpreprint versions.

Resumen Se presenta el Cuestionario de Apego Adulto-Revisado y sus caracteristicas psicometricas para la evaluacion dimensional y categorial del estilo de apego adulto. Se anadieron 8 items al cuestionario original (CAA; Melero y Cantero, 2008) que ampliaban la evaluacion de la dimension evitacion y la valoracion de la sensibilidad. El analisis factorial exploratorio (AFE) dio lugar a un cuestionario de 35 items agrupados en 4 dimensiones afectivas. 1) Ansiedad: necesidad de aprobacion, autoconcepto negativo, miedo al rechazo/abandono y ansiedad por las relaciones; 2) Competencia socioemocional: apertura emocional, sensibilidad y confianza; 3) Evitacion: autosuficiencia emocional e incomodidad con la intimidad, y 4) Enfado: rencor, enfado e intransigencia. El analisis de cluster confirmo la existencia de 4 conglomerados que se corresponden con los 4 estilos de apego descritos por Bartholomew y Horowitz (1991). El cuestionario presento indices de fiabilidad y validez satisfactorios.

SciELO promotes open access and cooperative publication of scholarly journals, based mainly in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. SciELO was created to offer solutions to increase the visibility of participating journals and facilitate free access to their full texts. This work aims to analyse the open access editorial policies implemented by the health sciences journals of the SciELO network (411 journals at the time of this study) in terms of authors’ rights, copyright issues, self-archiving policies and openness. From SciELO health sciences journals network, 92% of the 411 journals use a Creative Commons licence, 89% require transfer of author copyright and 14% apply author processing charges. According to the past SHERPA/RoMEO taxonomy of self-archiving policies, 8.5% of the journals were classified as white, 81.5% blue and 10% green. The openness of journals calculated through the Open Access Spectrum approach was higher than 60% in more than 80% of the total journals. Out of the 411 journals in SciELO portals, 380 have their own website. Discrepancies were found between licences stated in SciELO compared with the ones used in their websites, mainly due to the lack of declared licences in either of the two sources or because the licences did not match. The licences used on the websites and in SciELO were also compared with their corresponding records in the Directory of Open Access Journals and Crossref, and again the differences were narrowly related to the data supplier.

Cryo-electron microscopy has become one of the most important tools in biological research to reveal the structural information of macromolecules at near-atomic resolution. In single-particle analysis, the vitrified sample is imaged by an electron beam and the detectors at the end of the microscope column produce movies of that sample. These movies contain thousands of images of identical particles in random orientations. The data need to go through an image processing workflow with multiple steps to obtain the final 3D reconstructed volume. The goal of the image processing workflow is to identify the acquisition parameters to be able to reconstruct the specimen under study. Scipion provides all the tools to create this workflow using several image processing packages in an integrative framework, also allowing the traceability of the results. In this article the whole image processing workflow in Scipion is presented and discussed with data coming from a real test case, giving all the details necessary to go from the movies obtained by the microscope to a high resolution final 3D reconstruction. Also, the power of using consensus tools that allow combining methods, and confirming results along every step of the workflow, improving the accuracy of the obtained results, is discussed.

The presence of preferred orientations in single particle analysis (SPA) by cryo-Electron Microscopy (cryoEM) is currently one of the hurdles preventing many structural analyses from yielding high-resolution structures. Although the existence of preferred orientations is mostly related to the grid preparation, in this technical note, we show that some image processing algorithms used for angular assignment and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction are more robust than others to these detrimental conditions. We exemplify this argument with three different data sets in which the presence of preferred orientations hindered achieving a 3D reconstruction without artifacts or, even worse, a 3D reconstruction could never be achieved, We acknowledge support from “la Caixa” Foundation (Fellowship LCF/BQ/DI18/11660021. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 713673. We also thank the financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through Grants BIO2016-76400-R(AEI/FEDER, UE) and SEV 2017-0712, the “Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid” through Grant: S2017/BMD-3817, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, PT17/ 0009/0010 (ISCIII-SGEFI/ERDF), European Union (EU) and Horizon 2020 through grants: CORBEL (INFRADEV-1-2014-1, Proposal: 654248), INSTRUCT-ULTRA (INFRADEV-03-2016-2017, Proposal: 731005), EOSC Life (INFRAEOSC-04-2018, Proposal: 824087), High- ResCells (ERC-2018-SyG, Proposal: 810057), IMpaCT (WIDESPREAD-03-2018 – Proposal: 857203), EOSC-Synergy (EINFRA-EOSC-5, Proposal: 857647), and iNEXT-Discovery (Proposal: 871037). The authors acknowledge the support and the use of resources of Instruct, a Landmark ESFRI project

Contribución de Remedios Melero Melero introduciendo el debate de revista PH sobre Repositorios y redes sociales académicas para la transferencia del conocimiento abierto. En ella plantea la urdimbre de la ruta verde o la vía del depósito o archivo de los resultados de la actividad científica y académica de una comunidad o institución en repositorios de acceso abierto.

The analysis of structure factors in 3D cryo-EM Coulomb potential maps and their “enhancement” at the end of the reconstruction process is a well-established practice, normally referred to as sharpening. The aim is to increase contrast and, in this way, to help tracing the atomic model. The most common way to accomplish this enhancement is by means of the so-called B-factor correction, which applies a global filter to boost high frequencies with some dampening considerations related to noise amplification. The results are maps with a better visual aspect and a quasiflat spectrum at medium and high frequencies. This practice is so widespread that most map depositions in the Electron Microscopy Data Base (EMDB) only contain sharpened maps. Here, the use in cryoEM of global B-factor corrections is theoretically and experimentally analyzed. Results clearly illustrate that protein spectra present a falloff. Thus, spectral quasi-flattening may produce protein spectra with distortions when compared with experimental ones, this fact, combined with the practice of reporting only sharpened maps, generates a sub-optimal situation in terms of data preservation, reuse and reproducibility. Now that the field is more advanced, we put forward two suggestions: (1) to use methods which keep more faithfully the original experimental signal properties of macromolecules when “enhancing” the map, and (2) to further stress the need to deposit the original experimental maps without any postprocessing or sharpening, not only the enhanced maps. In the absence of access to these original maps data is lost, preventing their future analysis with new methods., The authors would like to acknowledge economical support from The Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through Grants BIO2016-76400-R(AEI/FEDER, UE), the “Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid” through Grant: S2017/BMD-3817.

Resolution (global and local) is one of the most reported metrics of quality measurement in Single Particle Analysis (SPA). However, in electron tomography, the situation is different and its computation is not straightforward. Typically, resolution estimation is global and, therefore, reduces the assessment of a whole tomogram to a single number. However, it is known that tomogram quality is spatially variant. Still, up to our knowledge, a method to estimate local quality metrics in tomography is lacking. This work introduces MonoTomo, a method developed to estimate locally in a tomogram the highest reliable frequency component, expressed as a form of local resolution. The fundamentals lie in a local analysis of the density map via monogenic signals, which, in analogy to MonoRes, allows for local estimations. Results with experimental data show that the local resolution range that MonoTomo casts agrees with reported resolution values for experimental data sets, with the advantage of providing a local estimation. A range of applications of MonoTomo are suggested for further exploration., The author would like to express their gratitude to Dr. J.J. Fernandez for his interest, following and advice on this work. The authors would like to acknowledge economical support from The Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through Grants BIO2016-76400-R(AEI/FEDER, UE), the “Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid” through Grant: S2017/BMD-3817, and the European Union (EU) and Horizon 2020 through grant EOSCpilot (INFRADEV-04-2016, Proposal: 739563), INSTRUCT - ULTRA (INFRADEV-03-2016-2017, Proposal: 731005), EOSC-LIFE (INFRAEOSC-04-2018, Proposal: 824087) and HighResCells (ERC-2018-SyG, Proposal: 810057). The authors acknowledge the support and the use of resources of Instruct-ERIC.

Research data (or scientific data) arouse great interest in their potential use and reuse, not only by the R & D sector but also by other actors such as industry or service companies that can use them for innovation of new products or for creation of new jobs. From the point of view of research, sharing and accessing the data generated during the research activity entails multiple benefits at institutional and individual level. Institutions provide transparency in the processes of obtaining or generating data. Researchers promote collaboration between interdisciplinary groups, and avoid duplication. For society, the benefits of making data available enhance confidence in the science system and is an exercise in transparency, accountability and responsibility in the use of investment in science. Multiple forums point to the value of data and the need for collaboration among all stakeholders, since science forms a particularly complex socio-technological infrastructure, involving both the public and private sectors. The partners of the Maredata network come from seven working groups (CSIC-IATA, CSIC-INGENIO, UA, UB, UC3M, UOC, UPV) that have research lines related to the management of research data: interoperability, access, preservation, and metrics. The overall objective of this subject oriented network is to coordinate the action of these groups and to consolidate in Spain the different actors interested in research data as the fundamental basis of open science, a responsible, transparent and accessible science. By consolidating the collaboration between the working groups, it will be possible to address research data issues in a multidimensional manner, and promote cross-cutting synergies that will enable the industrial sector, the infomedia sector and Spanish society in general to be reached.

The introduction of Direct Electron Detector (DED) videos in the Electron Microscope field has boosted Single Particle Analysis to a point in which it is currently considered to be a key technique in Structural Biology. In this article we introduce an approach to estimate the DED camera gain at each pixel from the movies themselves. This gain is needed to have the set of recorded frames into a coherent gray level range, homogeneous over the whole image. The algorithm does not need any other input than the DED movie itself, being capable of providing an estimate of the camera gain image, helping to identify dead pixels and cases of incorrectly calibrated cameras. We propose the algorithm to be used either to validate the experimentally acquired gain image (for instance, to follow its possible change over time) or to verify that there is no residual gain image after experimentally correcting for the camera gain. We show results for a number of DED camera models currently in use (DE, Falcon II, Falcon 3, and K2).

Compartir en abierto y facilitar el acceso a los datos de investigación, su uso y reutilización no son prácticas habituales entre los investigadores, a excepción de determinadas disciplinas, como la meteorología, la genética o la astronomía. Las políticas de las instituciones, de algunas editoriales y de las agencias que financian la investigación han provocado que esta cultura de compartir y gestionar los datos de investigación cobre una especial relevancia. Sin embargo, existen barreras como el miedo de los investigadores a que les quiten la primicia y a ser copiados, a que se haga un mal uso de sus datos, a perder el control o infringir la legislación sobre la propiedad intelectual, con las que se enfrenta la comunidad científica para poder hacer que sus datos sean localizables, accesibles, interoperables y reutilizables (datos FAIR). En este trabajo se han analizado los pros y los contras de compartir y reutilizar los datos, basándonos en trabajos previos que han permitido vislumbrar hábitos y opiniones de los investigadores a este respecto., Research data sharing, data reuse and facilitating access to research data are not common researchers’ practices, except in certain disciplines, such as Meteorology, Genetics or Astronomy. Institutional, publishers’ and funders’ policies have made the culture of sharing and managing research data particularly relevant. However, the threat of being scooped, the fear to the misuse of their data, to lose control over their data, or the fear to infringe the legislation on intellectual property, are barriers that scientific community faces when trying to make their data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR data). In this work, we have analyzed the pros and cons of sharing and reusing data, based on previous works in the literature that have allowed us to perceive researchers’ habits and perceptions in this regard.

Electron microscopy of macromolecular structures is an approach that is in increasing demand in the field of structural biology. The automation of image acquisition has greatly increased the potential throughput of electron microscopy. Here, the focus is on the possibilities in Scipion to implement flexible and robust image-processing workflows that allow the electron-microscope operator and the user to monitor the quality of image acquisition, assessing very simple acquisition measures or obtaining a first estimate of the initial volume, or the data resolution and heterogeneity, without any need for programming skills. These workflows can implement intelligent automatic decisions and they can warn the user of possible acquisition failures. These concepts are illustrated by analysis of the well known 2.2 angstrom resolution beta-galactosidase data set., Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the BIO2016-76400-R (AEI/FEDER, UE) grant, the Comunidad Auto ´noma de Madrid through grant S2017/BMD3817, the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (PT17/0009/0010), the European Union (EU) and Horizon 2020 through the CORBEL

To foster responsible research and innovation, research communities, institutions, and funders are shifting their practices and requirements towards Open Science. Open Science skills are becoming increasingly essential for researchers. Indeed general awareness of Open Science has grown among EU researchers, but the practical adoption can be further improved. Recognizing a gap between the needed and the provided training offer, the FOSTER project offers practical guidance and training to help researchers learn how to open up their research within a particular domain or research environment. Aiming for a sustainable approach, FOSTER focused on strengthening the Open Science training capacity by establishing and supporting a community of trainers. The creation of an Open Science training handbook was a first step towards bringing together trainers to share their experiences and to create an open and living knowledge resource. A subsequent series of train-the-trainer bootcamps helped trainers to find inspiration, improve their skills and to intensify exchange within a peer group. Four trainers, who attended one of the bootcamps, contributed a case study on their experiences and how they rolled out Open Science training within their own institutions. On its platform the project provides a range of online courses and resources to learn about key Open Science topics. FOSTER awards users gamification badges when completing courses in order to provide incentives and rewards, and to spur them on to even greater achievements in learning. The paper at hand describes FOSTER Plus’ training strategies, shares the lessons learnt and provides guidance on how to re-use the project’s materials and training approaches.

This study aimed to examine the relationship between maternal sensitivity and affect, as perceived by the child, and childhood creativity. Self-esteem and shyness were considered mediating factors. A total of 151 elementary school pupils were tested on verbal and pictorial creativity, self-esteem, and perceived maternal affect and sensitivity. Their teachers assessed each child’s shyness in their relations at school. A Multiple Indicators and Multiple Causes (MIMIC) model of the causal relationships among the study’s variables was tested. Results supported this theoretical model of causality. Maternal sensitivity had a significant, direct, positive effect on self-esteem, and a direct negative effect on shyness. In addition, self-esteem had a direct positive effect on verbal creativity and shyness had a negative direct effect on verbal and pictorial creativity. The indirect effect of maternal sensitivity on verbal creativity was significant via both self-esteem and shyness. The findings were discussed in t...

Remedios Melero, la coordinadora del debate de revista PH 100 sobre Repositorios y redes sociales académicas para la transferencia del conocimiento abierto, reflexiona sobre la evolución de los repositorios institucionales desde que el open access "sonaba aciencia ficción" hasta el momento presente, al tiempo que analiza algunas de las participaciones.

The Map Challenge organized by the Electron Microscopy Data Bank has prompted the development of an Xmipp high resolution reconstruction protocol (which we will refer to as highres) that is integrated in the software platform Scipion . In this work we describe the details of the image angular alignment and map reconstruction steps in our new method. This algorithm is similar to the standard projection matching approach with some important modifications, especially in the area of detecting significant features in the reconstructed volume. We show that the new method is able to produce higher resolution maps than the current de facto standard as measured by the Fourier Shell Correlation, the Monogenic Local Resolution and EMRinger.

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Research data (or scientific data) arouse great interest in their potential use and reuse, not only by the R & D sector but also by other actors such as industry or service companies that can use them for innovation of new products or for creation of new jobs. From the point of view of research, sharing and accessing the data generated during the research activity entails multiple benefits at institutional and individual level. Institutions provide transparency in the processes of obtaining or generating data. Researchers promote collaboration between interdisciplinary groups, and avoid duplication. For society, the benefits of making data available enhance confidence in the science system and is an exercise in transparency, accountability and responsibility in the use of investment in science. Multiple forums point to the value of data and the need for collaboration among all stakeholders, since science forms a particularly complex socio-technological infrastructure, involving both the public and private sectors. The partners of the Maredata network come from seven working groups (CSIC-IATA, CSIC-INGENIO, UA, UB, UC3M, UOC, UPV) that have research lines related to the management of research data: interoperability, access, preservation, and metrics. The overall objective of this subject oriented network is to coordinate the action of these groups and to consolidate in Spain the different actors interested in research data as the fundamental basis of open science, a responsible, transparent and accessible science. By consolidating the collaboration between the working groups, it will be possible to address research data issues in a multidimensional manner, and promote cross-cutting synergies that will enable the industrial sector, the infomedia sector and Spanish society in general to be reached., Los datos de investigación (o datos científicos) despiertan gran interés por su potencial aprovechamiento y reutilización, no sólo por parte del sector de la I+D sino también por parte de otros agentes como la industria o las empresas de servicios que pueden utilizarlos para la innovación de sus productos o para la creación de nuevos empleos. Desde el punto de vista de la investigación, compartir y acceder a los datos generados durante la actividad investigadora supone múltiples beneficios a nivel institucional e individual. En las instituciones proporciona transparencia en los procesos de obtención o generación de datos. Entre los investigadores promueve la colaboración entre grupos afines e interdisciplinares, y evita duplicaciones. Para la sociedad, los beneficios de hacer disponibles los datos mejoran la confianza en el sistema científico y supone un ejercicio de transparencia, rendición de cuentas y de responsabilidad en el uso de la inversión en ciencia. Múltiples foros señalan el valor de los datos y la necesidad de la colaboración entre todos los agentes, ya que la ciencia conforma una infraestructura socio-técnica especialmente compleja, que implica tanto al sector público como al privado. Los socios de la red Maredata provienen de siete grupos de trabajo (CSIC-IATA, CSIC-INGENIO, UA, UB, UC3M, UOC, UPV) que tienen líneas de investigación relacionadas con la gestión de los datos de investigación: interoperabilidad, publicación, acceso, localización, preservación y métricas de impacto. El objetivo general de la red temática es coordinar la actuación de estos grupos y consolidar estructuralmente en España a los diferentes agentes interesados en los datos de investigación como base fundamental de la ciencia abierta, una ciencia responsable, transparente y accesible al procomún. Al institucionalizar la colaboración entre los grupos de trabajo se podrá abordar esta temática de manera multidimensional, y se promoverán sinergias transversales que posibiliten llegar al sector industrial, al sector infomediario y a la sociedad española en general.

Three dimensional electron microscopy is becoming a very data-intensive field in which vast amounts of experimental images are acquired at high speed. To manage such large-scale projects, we had previously developed a modular workflow system called Scipion (de la Rosa-Trevín et al., 2016). We present here a major extension of Scipion that allows processing of EM images while the data is being acquired. This approach helps to detect problems at early stages, saves computing time and provides users with a detailed evaluation of the data quality before the acquisition is finished. At present, Scipion has been deployed and is in production mode in seven Cryo-EM facilities throughout the world., Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through Grants BIO2016-76400R(AEI/FEDER, UE) and AEI/FEDER BFU 2016 74868P, the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid through Grant: S2017/BMD-3817, European Union (EU) and Horizon 2020 through grant Corbel (INFRADEV-1-2014-1, Proposal: 654248). The “Knut & Alice Wallenberg Foundation”, and “A Pilot Facility development grant from Science for Life Laboratory”. European Union (EU) and Horizon 2020 through grant EOSCpilot (INFRADEV-04-2016, Proposal: 739563).This work used the EGI Infrastructure and is co-funded by the EGIEngage project (Horizon 2020) under Grant No. 654142. European Union (EU) and Horizon 2020 through grant West-Life (EINFRA-2015-1, Proposal: 675858) European Union (EU) and Horizon 2020 through grant Elixir - EXCELERATE (INFRADEV-3-2015, Proposal: 676559) European Union (EU) and Horizon 2020 through grant iNEXT (INFRAIA-1-2014-2015, Proposal: 653706).

América Latina cuenta con un ecosistema donde la naturaleza de la publicación es concebida como un acto de hacer público, de compartir, y no desde la perspectiva de la industria editorial. Las instituciones académicas y las universidades son parte de una cooperación informal y no explícita que financia las revistas científicas con sus propios integrantes y las publica en Acceso Abierto, lo que significa que todos se benefician de la inversión de todos. No obstante, el ecosistema latinoamericano de AA enfrenta una fragmentación. Pueden identificarse al menos dos vertientes: una está siendo determinada por la llamada ciencia de corriente principal a partir de la indización de Wos o Scopus, como la única vía para validar la investigación; la segunda vertiente reconoce la calidad de la investigación institucional y regional, fortalece a las editoriales universitarias empoderando a los editores con tecnología y profesionalización, al mismo tiempo que demanda métricas más responsables de evaluación a la investigación, todo ello con estrategias locales, pero con la capacidad de interactuar a gran escala. En este trabajo se presenta a AmeliCA, una iniciativa concreta que emergió como resultado de la convergencia de diversos actores que comparten esta segunda vertiente. AmeliCA es una configuración de estrategias, en respuesta al contexto internacional, regional, nacional e institucional de la publicación académica, que busca una solución de Acceso Abierto y público, colaborativa, sostenible, protegida y no comercial para América Latina y el Sur Global., Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación

Emerging metrics based on article-level does not exclude traditional metrics based on citations to the journal, but complements them. Both can be employed in conjunction to offer a richer picture of an article use from immediate to long terms. Article-level metrics (ALM) is the result of the aggregation of different data sources and the collection of content from multiple social network services. Sources used for the aggregation can be broken down into five categories: usage, captures, mentions, social media and citations. Data sources depend on the tool, but they include classic metrics indicators based on citations, academic social networks (Mendeley, CiteULike, Delicious) and social media (Facebook, Twitter, blogs, or Youtube, among others). Altmetrics is not synonymous with alternative metrics. Altmetrics are normally early available and allow to assess the social impact of scholarly outputs, almost at the real time. This paper overviews briefly the meaning of altmetrics and describes some of the existing tools used to apply this new metrics: Public Library of Science - Article-Level Metrics, Altmetric, Impactstory and Plum.

El objetivo de este informe conjunto entre Eunis y euroCRIS fue el de recopilar, a traves de una encuesta online, la informacion sobre las soluciones tecnologicas a los CRIS ( current research information systems ) y a los repositorios institucionales en Europa, analizar sus vinculos con otros sistemas utilizados en universidades y centros de investigacion, y su interoperabilidad con otros sistemas externos. http://www.eunis.org http://www.eurocris.org Ribeiro, Ligia ; De-Castro, Pablo ; Mennielli, Michele (2016). Final report: Eunis – Eurocris joint survey on CRIS and IR . ERAI (Eunis Research and Analysis Initiative). 23 p. http://www.eunis.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ cris-report-ED.pdf

Contiene 10 figuras y una tabla, Open access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. The lack of clarity of publisher permissions for archiving in OA repositories affects the adoption of the green OA route. This paper explores editorial policies and elf-archiving conditions in 1,615 Spanish scholarly journals. 48% are published by university and research institutions, 25% by associations/societies, and 17% by commercial publishers; social sciences and humanities (SSH)accounted for 67% of the journals (44.5% and 22.5%, respectively) followed by health sciences (20%); 71% offered gratis access immediately after publication, and 11% after an embargo; 31% provided some mention of author rights. Self-archiving was specifi cally allowed by 65% of the journals; 52% were classified as ROMEO-blue, 12% as green and 15% as white, and 21% could not be classifi ed; 21%, mostly in SSH, used some type of Creative Commons license., Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Proyecto coordinado refs. CSO2011-29503-C02-01 CSO2011-29503-C02-02.

This contribution aims to bring readers of a conversation between Remedios Melero, one of the main advocates for open access in Spain and Latin America, and members of the research project "Open access to scientific knowledge in Argentina. State of the art and main trends" (H540). The talk was on the progress made on the open access movement in Ibero-America, their similarities and differences with Spain, the influence of the laws designed to establish a suitable framework for their development, the prospect of so-called green and gold routes is reviewed - repositories and open access journals, and the main courses of research on the topic.

The paper analyzes publishers’ copyright policies and self-archiving conditions of Spanish scientific journals. Data are extracted from the directory DULCINEA that contains information of 1318 Spanish journals, of which 775 (61%) allow some form of self-archiving to be about 60% of the post-print version and allowing them 87% of the deposit of the version of record. In 72% of journals the deposit can be performed immediately after publication and in 16% after article acceptance. 72% of the journals are freely available without charge to the user this figure raises up to 86% if free access after an embargo is considered. Only 18% of the journals use Creative Commons licenses. The adoption of different open access journals model in Spain is favorable, however there is still a high percentage of journals (39%) that do not provide any information about authors and publishers rights and that difficult or inhibits reuse of published articles.

INTRODUCTION. The aim of this study was to determine the awareness of open access among the academic staff of a research-oriented Spanish university, their use of the institutional repository and their satisfaction with its services. METHODS. An anonymous survey of 37 questions was sent to all professors, researchers and doctoral students of the University of Navarra. Between 5 and 25 March 2015, a total of 1989 messages were sent by email with a link to the survey. RESULTS. A total of 352 responses (17%) were received. The responses showed statistically significant differences in opinions concerning open access journals and services created on top of the repository. Although there was general agreement on the need for open access, half the respondents adopted open access practices (which included the use of the institutional repository, personal and departmental pages and academic platforms such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate). This percentage increased with the older respondents, who were also senior members of staff with tenure and positions of authority at the university. The opinion on open access journals depended on the area of research and was related to the type of academic communication and career advancement in each discipline. Specifically, the opinions of researchers were similar within social sciences and humanities, within medicine and life sciences, and within the physical sciences. The repository services most valued were correction of bibliographic data among older researchers and document scanning among social sciences and humanities researchers. The interoperability of the repository with other systems (especially the current research information system) was also considered important. CONCLUSIONS: The opinion on open access is positive, but it does not correspond to the use of the institutional repository. The decision to make publications accessible in open access depends on academic reward and on professional recognition. The services offered by the repository managers and librarians were generally perceived positively, with differences according to the age and subject area of the respondents. The awareness of those differences might help the university library and information services to provide faculty with training and products that suit to their needs and habits.

Publicado en la revista El Profesional de la Información vol 21(2), marzo-abril 2012, Se presenta y define un conjunto de parámetros para analizar los modelos de negocio de las editoriales científicas, y en especial las que ofrecen acceso abierto a sus contenidos en todas o en alguna de sus revistas. Se ofrece una definición del término “modelo de negocio” que supera la vieja restricción conceptual ligada a las fuentes de financiación. Esta visión más completa requiere extender el análisis de las fuentes de financiación a otros componentes económico-financieros y también a las dimensiones operativa y estratégica de la editorial. De esta forma se pueden abordar con mayores garantías la interpretación y el análisis de los distintos modelos de negocio de las editoriales científicas, A set of parameters to analyze business models of scientific publishers, especially those that offer open access to their content for all or some of their journals, is presented and defined. A definition of the term “business model” that exceeds the old conceptual restriction tied to funding sources is given. This more complete view of the business model requires extending the analysis of funding sources to other economic and financial components as well as operational and strategic dimensions of the publisher. This allows a better and more authoritative interpretation and analysis of the various business models of scientific publishers., Trabajo resultado del proyecto “El acceso abierto a la producción científica en España: análisis de la situación actual y presentación de políticas y estrategias para promover su desarrollo”, financiado por el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Referencia: CSO2008-05525-C02/SOCI).