The URJC obtains 165.000 euros in aid to promote open science

Raul Garcia Hemonnet

The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) has decided to grant the Rey Juan Carlos University aid for a total amount of 165.000 euros to continue promoting and implementing free science and culture in the institution. It was a competitive call in which the URJC came second in terms of the volume of funding achieved.

With these aids, specifically, explains Jesús María González Barahona, coordinator of the Free Knowledge and Culture Office, “it is intended to improve the infrastructure of the institutional open archive of the digital burjc. The user interface and integration with other university systems and repositories will be improved.”

In addition, the financing will be used to make improvements “to the journal and monograph platform of the publications service and its integration with other university and external systems,” explains González Barahona, adding that “in both cases it will contribute to improve the free software projects that maintain the systems. These new additions may be reused by other institutions that share the same management program.”

These initiatives constitute one more action among many others to promote open science within the university and support open science infrastructure at the national level.