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about
Spain's Draft Open Access
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.]

*Draft of the National Law of Science in Spain includes Open Access.*

*A draft of the National Law of Science in Spain <https://lcyt.fecyt.es/> has
been released and includes a chapter dedicated to Open Access.

Article 33 of the draft states (translated from Spanish):

1. The agents of the Spanish System of Science and Technology will promote
the development of institutional or aggregated repositories to allow open
access to the publications of their researchers

2. The researchers, whose research had been granted with public funds shall
make publicly available a digital version of their own final draft
(peer-reviewed and accepted for publication) as soon as possible, but not
later than 6 months after the official date of the publication of this final
draft.

3. This final version will be made publicly available in open access
repositories, disciplinary or institutional.

4. The public digital version deposited in the repositories can be used in
the evaluation processes by Public Administrations.

The inclusion of Open Access in this document represents an important and
significant commitment in support of Open Access and repositories in Spain.

The draft document is available online from https://lcyt.fecyt.es/*