Supporting scholar dissemination with an institutional repository for research outputs in the fields of Chemistry, Physics and Biology: challenges and opportunities
Creators: name: Alonso, Elena
name: Lorente, Laura
name: Davies, Mark
name: Villa, M. Jesús
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The full deployment of Open Science requires the contribution of many actors across different institutions. One of the pillars of Open Science is the quality data management so that researchers can create, use and share literature and data according to defined standards and practices. Services and infrastructures must be then put in place to support researchers across the entire research cycle. In the data management landscape we find few organisations that succeeded at achieving this, although more and more are making major efforts towards high quality management standards. The IMDEA Nanociencia Foundation is a research institution in the field of Nanoscience –that comprises the Physics, Chemistry and Biology areas -mainly. One of the premises of IMDEA Nanociencia is the wide and open distribution of the scientific results in a nondiscriminatory and nonexclusive fashion. The Institute’s strategy for Open Access includes the setting up of an institutional digital archive to gather and preserve the whole of the scientific production of the foundation: <em>https://repositorio.imdeananociencia.org/</em> The intention with this initiative is two-fold: 1) disseminate and give visibility to research outputs worldwide and without barriers, and 2) reduce the dependency on external providers to archive and account for scientific results. The Repository is a young digital archive that was stablished in 2019 and still is improving its functionality. Herein, <strong>we propose a poster communication on our journey of implementing an institutional repository in a small research institution in the field of physical sciences</strong>. We will describe the many aspects that underpin open science, challenges faced along the road, and the peculiarities of our case -all targeted to make the data FAIR: Findable: hosting and security, aggregators that list the Repository items, communication campaigns. Accessible: open access, languages. Interoperable: metadata schema, mapping, identifiers, protocol for metadata harvesting. Reusable: licenses, long term preservation. Additionally, we will discuss strategies to encourage researchers to deposit their works and represent an opportunity to make their research FAIR. Our poster is <strong>targeted to research administrators and repository managers</strong> and aims to discuss on best practices in the successful implementation of open access institutional repositories using our case study. With our communication we aim to contribute to the discussion on the reform of research assessment, so that we can move beyond an exclusively quantitative and paper-centered evaluation system towards a system that includes other research outputs. We aim to include the publication of literature in its various versions, as well as datasets, methods and experiments for reproducibility and transparent assessment of science. We believe that the development of services such as institutional repositories are useful instruments that can shift away ingrained scientific work habits into open, interconnected and discoverable research. The institutional Repository of IMDEA Nanociencia receives funding from the Severo Ochoa Excellence award to IMDEA Nanociencia (highest recognition of scientific excellence at national level) and from FECYT-María de Guzmán 2021 call.
description: This poster was presented during the 4th Open Science Fair (25-27 September, Madrid, Spain)