On these pages you will find information on Open Access at the University of Barcelona and initiatives in this area. We offer a guide to Open Access, information on dissemination activities, and links to information on funding for open access publishing.
You can check the state of Open Access at the University of Barcelona in our thermometer and in the observatory where we collaborate with the different catalan universities.
What is Open Access?
The information on this page focuses on the basic concepts that underpin the Open Access (OA) movement, and which are key to understanding its significance and the strategies formulated over 10 years ago in the movement’s founding declarations.
Open Access publishing: the gold route
The first way to achieve open access is to publish in an OA journal (gold route). Here you will find information on journals of this kind and funding available to publish in them.
Open Access via repositories: the green road
As an alternative or complement to publishing in an OA journal, any published article can be self-archived in a repository (green road). This section explains how to do this.
Check the policy of your journal
Open Access policies and guidelines
This section provides information on OA policies and guidelines that can affect you as a researcher, including the University of Barcelona’s institutional policy, the article on Open Access contained in the Spanish Law on Science, and European guidelines on Open Access.
Dissemination of Open Access
Open Access Week 2024 [in catalan]
Documents and events related to the dissemination of Open Access.