Projects
What we do
We are a project-based group. Some projects are currently active while others are inactive and kept as an historical record of our pioneering foundational work.
Active
Since 2019 Psicológica Journal
We coordinate a partnership between Psicológica, the journal of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX), and DIGITAL.CSIC, the institutional repository of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) to offer a novel model of sustainable Diamond (free) Open Access enabled by advanced Repository-as-a-Publisher services.
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Since 2021 The Notify Project
We participate in the Notify project, led by COAR and funded by the Arcadia Foundation, to develop a standard, interoperable, and decentralised approach to linking research outputs hosted in the distributed network of repositories with resources from external services such as overlay-journals and open peer review services.
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No longer active, kept as a reference. We return to these often and point others here to learn from what came before.
2014–2017 Open Peer Review Module
In this project we developed an open source module to enable the open peer review of digital content deposited in institutional repositories. This additional functionality can help the academic community replace commercial publishers with university libraries.
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2017–2020 Next Generation Repositories
We collaborated with COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) to develop a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication that can be collectively managed by the scholarly community.
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2012–2014 LIBRE
Back in the days when arXiv was the only available preprint archive and overlay peer review was science fiction, we developed a prototype of a multidisciplinary repository with overlay journal-like services.
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Supported from 2014 The Self-Journal of Science
A non-commercial, multidisciplinary repository that entrusted the evaluation and classification of research to the collective intelligence of the scientific community. Open Scholar supported the project and its founder, the physicist Michaël Bon.
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