UPCommons: an institutional repository and the public domain

Institutional Repositories give the opportunity to faculties and researchers from universities and research institutes to freely publish and facilitate open access to their publicly funded research activities results. There is also a good chance for scholars and research communities to highly increase their visibility in the world and their impact. For University libraries is the opportunity to document, organize and preserve the intellectual heritage of the institution at the time it increases its prestige.
Besides, publishing in UPCommons in one of the indicators used to evaluate the performance of strategic plans of the Research and Academic Units
UPC libraries have developed different repositories to offer to the university community a tool to publish their academic and scientific works in open access.
• E-prints UPC (https://upcommons.upc.edu/e-prints/) collects documents generated by academics in their research activities. Content is organized around communities which can correspond to departments, research groups or institutes.
• Revistes i Congressos UPC (https://upcommons.upc.edu/revistes/) accommodates full text of e-journals articles and proceedings published by any unit of the UPC (institutes, departments, etc.).
• Theses and dissertations Online is a digital cooperative repository of doctoral theses presented at some Spanish universities managed by the Consortium of University Libraries of Catalonia (CBUC). Universities taking part are responsible for editing and uploading theses and dissertations to the repository.
• Academic works collects in digital format the final academic works (final degree projects/works, minor theses, recognition of foreign diplomas tests, etc.) presented by university studies at UPC.
• Opencourseware is a repository inspired by the MIT Opencourseware. It is a web-based electronic publishing initiative with the goal to provide free, searchable access to UPC’s course materials for educators, students and self-learners and extend the impact of UPC opencourseware and all the opencoursewares around. The repository grants the access and preservation to the course material from now on.
• Digital Video Library: it contains a selection of the available video recordings of the University (academic lessons, conferences, etc.)
• Graphic Archive of the School of Arquitecture of Barcelona: it preserves part of the documentation generated through the academic activity of the institution along its history. The collection includes both architectural projects and drawings dated in the 19th century and actual academic works.
Several services developed by the UPC Library through recent years have become to be strategic within UPCommons Project. One of them is the Intellectual Property Service (SEPI): UPC libraries offer to the authors (academics, students, etc.) of the documents published at UPCommons, information and guidance about rights and copyright policies. SEPI website provides authors with answers to FAQs regarding common aspects of creation, dissemination and publication of academic and research works.

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