The principles and practices of open science aim to make
research accessible to the scientific community
and society as a whole.
Open science increases transparency and accountability,
promotes cooperation and allows
reproducibility and comparison of results.
It is a new way of working.
It is more than open publication, it is open educational resources,
citizen science, shared data,
scientific evaluation and open peer-reviewing.
In Spanish current legislation, the Law of Science
or the Organic Law of the University System,
scientific knowledge has the consideration
of the common good
and urges universities to promote open science.
The UNED library has been committed since the beginning
to this opening movement.
Supporting open publication,
we have also put a lot of emphasis on the formation of the personnel
and we have increased the number of people
dedicated to these research support tasks
and we have also favoured the creation of infrastructure
for support for open scientific research.
We have been with an institutional repository for more than 20 years,
e-Spacio UNED, in which we work continuously to update its technology
to adapt to international standards of interoperability and quality.
Proof of this is that we have obtained
a quality seal from FECYT to our repository.
The academic community of UNED has an open data repository,
research data and a data management plan
that is required in many research projects
for the presentation of the projects.
This repository is the result of a joint work
with the universities that are members of the Madroño Consortium,
which is the regional consortium
of public libraries of the Community of Madrid.
We maintain the portal
of academic journals of the university,
which manages all the editorial flow and peer-reviewing
and we offer advice on copyright issues,
intellectual property
and for the evaluation of the journals themselves.
Another of the infrastructures that the library manages
is the research portal,
which is the access point
to the scientific production of the university
and the research results,
which also promotes transparency and accountability.
We offer training and information sessions
to the teaching and research staff,
favoring the principles of open science.
In recent years, the library has evolved
and adapted to the new paradigm of open science.
Its personnel has been trained and has acquired new competencies,
we have introduced new infrastructures
and modified spaces to adapt to this new situation
and we work much more closely
with the teaching and research staff.