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One of the aims of the portal is to ensure against the dispersion of open-access scientific information in Spain and to help promote the contents of the country’s scientific repositories. This tool is a point of access and search engine for scientific documents contained in open institutional repositories; ie, on open-access platforms storing the work of scientists and researchers belonging to these institutions. Thus, researchers are offered a comprehensive search engine for open-access science records that brings together all that held in Spain’s science and technology repositories.

It works in terms of a metadata harvester that allows for searches of the data describing documents (ie, title, author, abstract, etc.). Likewise, the platform allows for the collating of statistical data on use, which helps Spanish repositories position themselves in terms of international projects such as the ISI Web of Knowledge’s Web Citation Index. It also offers value-added services such as information on open access to scientific information in Spain and related issues, including copyright, alternative models for publication, and similar national and international projects.

Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias (Network of Spanish University Libraries, REBIUN)

The creation of the RECOLECTA portal forms part of one of the objectives set by the Network of Spanish University Libraries strategic lines in order to guide university libraries with regard to the new challenges of the European research area and the new processes for the creation and dissemination of science. This strategic line lead to the project that has been coordinated by the UOC’s Virtual Library, with participation from the Spanish Distance Education University (UNED), the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Seville’s Pablo de Olavide University and the Universities of Valencia, Murcia and Salamanca.

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