Recolecta, the national portal to Spanish open access (OA) scientific publications, has been launched. The project is a joint collaboration between Rebiun (Network of academic and research libraries of Spain) and FEcyt (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) to create a national search service of OA scientific publications.
Currently in beta phase, Recolecta seeks to stimulate OA initiatives in Spain; coordinate the creation of a national infrastructure of institutional repositories; and to serve as a central point of information on all questions related with OA and new scholarly communication issues. As a scientific national search service the portal will only harvest scientific documents wherever they are (OA journals, institutional repositories, and disciplinary repositories) as long as they are OAI compliant. "Cultural heritage" type of documents will not be included and neither will learning objects. Currently, most of the documents are textual and all are open access.
An English translation will be made available similar to the Sherpa/Romeo translation which has already been completed. Other services such as statistics and a national thesis portal are also planned. The first national meeting of Spanish OAI data providers will be held this month. It is planned to use this meeting to create a national repository managers group to coordinate the development of the Spanish national infrastructure in a standarised way following the DRIVER guidelines.
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