What is the O2?

• Increased visibility for scientific literature.
• More impact of publications: increase in the number of author and publication citations.
• The ability to access documents forever.
• Open-access content can be easily retrieved. Guaranteed preservation of research results.
• Increased visibility of institutions.

Many publishing policies allow you to publish at least the preprint.

• Preliminary version or preprint: This is the manuscript sent to the publisher for review, before the peer review process.
• Reviewed preliminary version or postprint: This is the version accepted by the publisher (after the peer review process and corrections).
• Published version: This is the publisher's final version, the one that will be available in the journal (offline/online).

Yes, as long as you produced the document in the framework of your activity at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia, UOC), and as long as this is permitted by the contract you signed with the publisher of the scientific journal. To find out what is permitted or not by the publisher, if you don’t have a copy of the signed contract, you can consult it through the international publishers’ database SHERPA-ROMEO and/or the national publishers’ database DULCINEA.

You can deposit the file yourself in the portal. All you have to do is follow these simple steps for your particular profile.

• Guide to Depositing Teaching Materials
• Guide for Depositing Final Bachelor’s Degree Projects, Final Master's Degree Projects and Practicums
• Guide to Depositing Research

When you enter a publication in the UOC's research assessment tool, GIR, click on the Publish in the Repository button to automatically fill in the form for depositing documents in the UOC's O2 institutional repository. Then upload the document (preferably, the pre-print version) and check the data entered.