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Publish in the UOC's O2 repository

Publish the scientific output or doctoral thesis produced by you at the UOC as open access, and discover all the benefits of sharing your knowledge in this way. If you have any questions, you can contact us using the form for this service.

Publish your scientific output

To disseminate your scientific output on O2, the UOC's institutional repository, you must first enter your publications on GIR, the Researchers' Portal. If you're not quite sure what to do, follow the instructions below.

The service is aimed at doctoral candidates, researchers (management profile) and teaching staff.

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If you have a query but are not a member of the UOC Community, please contact with the Help service.

We are committed to open-access publishing. We provide access to scientific publications, doctoral theses, academic journals and contents on O2, the UOC's Repository.

How it works?

  1. Publish content

    You can deposit your publications on O2, the UOC's institutional repository, through GIR, the Researchers' Portal. See the guide on depositing research materials. 

  2. Select your chosen publishing licence

    Decide under which Creative Commons licence you would like to publish your content and how readers should be allowed to use your work. You will always keep your intellectual property rights. See the information on licensing. 

  3. Ask us

    If you have any questions, fill in the form for the service, providing as much detail of your query as possible.

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Once you have uploaded your publications to the Researchers' Portal, before depositing them on O2, the UOC's institutional repository, you must decide what Creative Commons licence to apply to the content and how readers will be allowed to use it. You will always keep your intellectual property rights. For more information on Creative Commons licences, see the following information graphic:

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • It is the institutional portal that compiles, disseminates and preserves the UOC community's open-access digital publications.

    It helps disseminate the University's activity around the world, increasing visibility and impact.

    It was created in 2010 to position the UOC as a global university committed to the open access movement.

  • The UOC’s institutional repository is the portal for collecting, disseminating and preserving the open-access digital publications produced by members of the UOC as part of their research, teaching and management work.

    Administrative staff Any type of document created as part of your administrative activity within the framework of the UOC: reports, articles, presentations, communications, congresses, posters, reviews, etc.
    Professor Any type of document created as part of your teaching or research activity within the framework of the UOC: study guides, continuous assessment tests, examinations, examination decisions, preprints, postprints, articles, communications, congresses, etc.
    Researcher Any type of document created as part of your research activity within the framework of the UOC: articles, preprints, postprints, communications, congresses, reviews, etc.
    Student or alumnus You can only publish the final bachelor's degree or master's degree projects, internship projects and master's degree research projects carried out while studying at the UOC. The repository ensures that your project will be preserved; you will be able to download it from the repository whenever you want.

     

  • You can include files in whatever format you prefer: applications, video, audio, etc.

    However, we recommend that you use open formats to ensure the preservation of materials in the long term because they are based on open standards, free of legal and economic use restrictions.

    In this regard for text documents we recommend the use of pdf format, not only because almost everyone can open PDF documents without having to buy any software, but also because Internet search engines retrieve perfectly the text of the documents in this format.

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

    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.

    • 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).

  • No, it is not possible for you to modify the documents already published in the repository.

  • 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.