Presentació a càrrec de Clara Llebot a l'Erasmus International Staff Week de la UAB. (17 d'octubre de 2023)

1. Open Science Area
Activities
Clara Llebot
Erasmus International Staff Week (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
October 17, 2023

2. CSUC ambassador
✓ Data Management
Specialist at Oregon
State University, USA
✓ On sabbatical at the
Consortium of
University Services of
Catalonia (CSUC)

3. What will I talk about today?
✓ What is CSUC?
✓ Open science activities
1. Promotion of open science
2. Open Access
3. Research Portal of Catalonia
4. Repositories
5. Research data management
Vicenç Llurba

4. Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC)
✓ Public consortium created in 1991.
✓ Members:
• Generalitat de Catalunya
• Universitat de Barcelona (UB)
• Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
• Universitat de Girona (UdG)
• Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV)
• Universitat de Lleida (UdL)
• Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
• Universitat Ramon Llull (URL)
• Universitat de Vic · Central de Catalunya
(UVic-UCC)
✓ Serves: 13 universities and research
centers in Catalonia

5. CSUC activities – csuc.cat

6. CSUC’s Open Science Area
1. Promotion of Open Science 2. Open Access
4. Repositories
3. Research Portal of Catalonia
5.Research Data Management (RDM)
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7. 1. Promotion of Open Science
✓ Advocacy for open science. Provides accurate information, and
keeps members up to date on national and international trends
changes and best practices.
• Advocacy at different levels: deans and directors, research suport
personnel, researchers
✓ Support to comply with open science mandate
• Agreement to publish in open science by all universities. Policies.
• Encouraged universities to create interdisciplinary groups to work on open
science initiatives. E.g. Comissió d’Acces Obert at UAB.
✓ Creation of the Catalan Open Research Area (CORA) brand.
Website coming soon!
✓ Creation of a course for PhD Students on Open Science skills, to be
reused by all universities and research centers.

8. 2. Open Access
✓Negotiation with
publishers together with
CRUE* and CSIC*
• Transformative agreements
in 2021
• In 2023 working on
adjusting expenses.
✓Tracking expenses in
Open Access in
Catalunya
❖ CRUE: Association of Spanish Universities
❖ CSIC: Spanish National Research Council

9. 2. Open Access

10. 3. Research Portal of Catalonia - https://portalrecerca.csuc.cat/

11. 3. Research Portal of Catalonia - https://portalrecerca.csuc.cat/
Local and cooperative
repositories
11 universities –
4 different CRIS
systems
* CRIS: Research Information Systems

12. 4. Repositories
Cooperative repositories
Basic institutionalrepositories (RPB)
...
Advanced institutional repositories (RPA)
From 2000
From 2019
From 2022
+
Base
repository
More
funcionalities
Additional
support
+

13. 5. Research Data Management Services
Preservation
Publication
Sharing
Discoveryand
reuse
Planning
Collection
Processand
analysis
Description

14. 5. Research Data Management Services
Preservation
Publication
Sharing
Discoveryand
reuse
Planning
Collection
Processand
analysis
Description

15. What is CORA.eiNa DMP?
Online free tool to help
researchers:
– Create DMPs
– Share DMPs
– Review DMPs
– ExportDMPs
CORA.eiNa DMP
Facilitates compliance with
funder and institutional
requirements
5. Research Data Management Services

16. ✓ 33 institutions participate (12 universities + 21 research centers)
✓ + 500 real DMPs created
✓ + 1.300 registered users
✓ Created collectively / Personalized by each institution
CORA.eiNa DMP
5. Research Data Management Services

17. eiNaDMP / Data Management Plan - Avaliable Templates
• Horizon Europe (European Commission)
• Horizon 2020 (European Commission)
• European Research Council (European Commission)
• Plan Estatal (Agencia Estatal de Investigación)
• Software Management Plan
• PhD Students
• Requirements of funders
• FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable)
• Help, recommendations and examples

18. 5. Research Data Management Services
Preservation
Publication
Sharing
Discoveryand
reuse
Planning
Collection
Processand
analysis
Description
High Performance
Computingand short
term storage

19. 5. Research Data Management Services
Preservation
Publication
Sharing
Discoveryand
reuse
Planning
Collection
Processand
analysis
Description
High Performance
Computingand short
term storage
Repositories for
publications

20. 5. Research Data Management Services
Preservation
Publication
Sharing
Discoveryand
reuse
Planning
Collection
Processand
analysis
Description
High Performance
Computingand short
term storage
Repositories for
publications

21. What is CORA.Data Repository?
✓ Repository for datasets
✓ For researchers and PhD students of the catalan
research system
✓ Discipline agnostic
✓ Open (as open as possible, as closed as necessary)
✓ 100GB limit for each dataset
Follows best practices for
FAIR data and complies
with EOSC
recommendations
CORA.RDR
5. Research Data Management Services

22. RDR / Research Data Repository - Benefits
• Compliance with the
requirements of funding
agencies
• Increase in visibility
• High capacity
• Data management and
access control
• Long term preservation
• Licenses
• File format
transformation
• Data curation
Working on…

23. 5. Research Data Management Services
Preservation
Publication
Sharing
Discoveryand
reuse
Planning
Collection
Processand
analysis
Description
High Performance
Computingand short
term storage
Repositories for
publications

24. 5. Research Data Management (RDM)
Definition - eiNaDMP / Data Management Plan
• DMPRoadmap
Publication - RDR / Research Data Repository
• Dataverse
Training & promotion

25. Thank you!