International Open Access Week is here!
Subject: Multidisciplinary
Take a look at the activities, open resources and training materials, and join the open movement
The UOC's O2 repository is a digital archive where the UOC community publishes the academic, research and institutional content it creates.
A new edition of International Open Access Week, the annual event to raise awareness of the importance of opening up knowledge for everyone, is taking place from 24 to 30 October.
The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has been committed to the open access model – a movement to provide knowledge to anyone in the world, online and for free – for years. The university raises the profile of the knowledge generated by the institution's teaching and research, and shares it with society. To mark International Open Access Week, we are recommending content for sharing and learning more about open knowledge.
Open access resources
The UOC's institutional repository, the O2, is where final projects, articles, doctoral theses, books and learning resources are deposited in open access. This means it is preserved over time and can be accessed by more people. It currently has 17,100 items – more than twice as many as there were four years ago.
1,138teaching documents Editorial UOC books (85) Other (1,053) |
3,217research documents Scientific articles (2,364) Doctoral theses (196) Data sets (10) Altres (647) |
12,750institutional documents Final projects (10,433) Open-access learning resources (2,274) Continuous assessment tests (43) |
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The most downloaded items from the O2
2021
Books in open access
A manual focusing on think tanks – the highly influential organizations within the political elites of the United States that provide ideas, analysis and advice.
You will find this book interesting if you want to know how music is included in films, and the role of the soundtrack in a feature film.
What is a happening and what is a performance? What innovations did Grotowski bring to the work of actors? What role can new technologies play in the theatre? This study has all the answers.
Did you know that there are a number of rules for using chopsticks when sitting at a Japanese table? Datemaki, kombu, kachiguri... discover this Asian country's most typical dishes.
Unlimited learning
In the O2, you can consult the learning materials that have been prepared by the UOC for its classrooms. For example, you can learn
Manuals providing an introduction to or improvement of languages including English, German and Japanese. Prepared by the Centre for Modern Languages.
Our approach to graphic design, with a review of the basic concepts, typographic composition, digital graphics and graphic printing.
Take a closer look at the history, materials, media, techniques, tools and technologies of drawing, and learn about interesting examples of projects based on illustration and graffiti.
A manual and two videos focusing on Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats technique, a creative method for improving group reflection and discussion.
Who is an artist? How is someone recognized as being an artist? This guide looks at artists over the centuries, from craftsmen in the era of the ancient Greeks and Romans, to our contemporary conception of the artist.
The UOC's academic journals
All journals published or co-published by the university are available in open access.
Contributions focusing on the reflection and study of the intersections between art, science and technology.
Articles on topics broadly related to information and communication sciences.
A journal analysing the changes taking place in the humanities and social sciences in the digital age.
Reflection and discussion on the changes that the ICT entail in the field of law, politics and electronic administration.
The experience of experts, the teaching staff and students in the technology and multimedia communication sector.
An international exchange forum dealing with information and communication technologies and higher education.
This journal highlights and shares, in open access format, the breakthroughs in knowledge taking place related to the disciplines of information and communication sciences.
This journal promotes and disseminates research on contemporary societies relating to social and intellectual movements and processes of democratization.
An analysis of the intersections between economics, business and society, looking at themes such as the knowledge society and the application and repercussions of the ICT in economics, business and social sciences.
This publication monitors public regulatory changes and private policy developments expected to have lasting impacts on European societies.
In 2018, the university launched an Open Knowledge Action Plan to determine the areas of work where the greatest efforts were needed in order to make open knowledge possible. The institutional open access policy, the framework for the university's content, who can access it and how, was approved last spring.
If you would like to know more about open access, here is an explanation of what it consists of and its benefits.
Experts
Rosa Padrós Cuxart
Operative subgroup: Open science and services for research Operative group: Office of the Deputy General Manager (Research and Innovation). Open Science
