idUS, Repository of Scientific Production of the University of Seville.
Through the Institutional Statement of the University of Seville for the Promotion of Open Access to Scientific Production (Agreement 6.1/CG 18-7-2014) the University of Seville, as a public institution dedicated to teaching, research and knowledge transfer, wishes to support the dissemination of research results through idUS, the US Scientific Production Repository. To this end, it is agreed to initiate an institutional open access policy that favours greater dissemination, accessibility, visibility and impact of the publications of its Teaching and Research Staff (PDI). This strategy also contributes to the institutional positioning of the Univ. of Seville and, for this reason, it is committed to disseminating the scientific production of the members of its university community as widely as possible and to developing initiatives to promote the visibility of the contents of this repository in similar services, both in Spain and abroad.
This policy is based on compliance with art. 37 of Law 14/2011, of 1 June, on Science, Technology and Innovation, Royal Decree 99/2011, which regulates official PhD studies, and the CRUE/REBIUN Declaration in support of the open access model. It also follows the recommendations of the Berlin Declaration (2003) and the Council of the European University Association (2008) that universities should adopt active policies and strategies to make the scientific output of university institutions openly accessible in their own institutional repository or by participating in international thematic repositories. In this European context, the European Commission encourages the promotion of open access to the results of science and research and the document Scientific publication: policy on Open Access (2006) advocates that the results of publicly funded research should be made freely accessible within a short period of time.
In line, therefore, with the recommendations in support of open access to scientific information, the University of Seville wishes to encourage the deposit of the research work of its teaching and research staff and, additionally, other academic work of its university community on the idUS. Specifically, with regard to PhD theses, the Declaration states that “Univ. or Seville PhD students, according to the current regulations of Royal Decree 99/2011 of 28 January, must deposit their PhD thesis in the Repository of Scientific Production within a period of no more than six months from its approval.” They must hand in annex T01- Declaration of incorporation of thesis to the repository of scientific production, with the submission of the thesis
To this end, the author grants the University, free of charge and for the exclusive purposes of research and teaching, the rights of transformation, reproduction and public communication of the PhD thesis.
If you are interested, you must present the following documents to the General Registry Office or Auxiliary General Registry located in Pabellón de Brasil:
- A copy of the PhD thesis in electronic format (if possible in PDF format)
- Agreement signed, in duplicate, to ensure compliance with the legal requirements of Intellectual Property: T14 - Agreement for the digitisation of PhD thesis
Benefits of publishing the thesis open
- Academic communication today is very fast. The fast access provided by the Internet is much more beneficial than access to the printed document.
- Research shows that works available on the Internet in open access are cited more often and earlier than works that are only available by subscription or loan in print format.
- Your PhD thesis can be found by repositories such as Recolecta, the Open Science Collector in Spain, and OATD, the open access PhD thesis meta-search engine, which will exponentially increase the visibility of your work and therefore the possibility of receiving citations.
- It will facilitate control over possible plagiarism of your work.
- Open access research papers can reach a wide audience with unforeseeable consequences: new possibilities for inter-disciplinary research, unexpected collaborations, etc.
- A stable URL for your thesis can be included in your CV and emailed to your colleagues
Source: Library of the University of Seville
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