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Research support

Ca' Foscari supports Open Science priciples and promotes open access to publications and data.
What the University Library System does to support open science:

  • fund for APCs and open access books (Publishing open access)
  • Read&Publish agreements (Publishing open access)
  • Datarepository Unive, the platform that helps researchers to manage their research data
  • support to researchers on

    • publication, dissemination and enhancement of their academic production
    • datarepository and data management
    • licences and deposit policies

Contacts

To request information or book a personalised consultation write to  openscience@unive.it or contact
the Research Support Service of your reference library:

Research toolbox

The following is a list of tools and specific resources to facilitate the work of researchers we have selected:

To get started explore the “state of the art” in your subject area and the latest news on your research topics with the resources and tools provided by the University:

Retrieve resources not available in the University through the Interlibrary loan and Document Delivery service; see the library pages for the conditions of the service; to submit a request, fill in the MOBI forms [ITA].

Publishing in open access is mandatory in many of European research projects (e.g. Horizon Europe). You can do this in many ways:

  • Green Open Access: deposit your work in the institutional or disciplinary repository.

    • ARCA: the institutional repository; look at the regulations
    • Zenodo: the trusted repository of CERN and OpenAIRE
    • ROAR: search for a disciplinary repository on the register of trusted open access repositories

  • Gold Open Access: publish in fully open access journals:

    • DOAJ: search for open access journals
    • OASPA: check which academic publishers are open access
    • Open policy finder: compare the publishing policies and Open Access options of journals

  • Diamond Open Access: publish without paying APCs

Publishing in subscription journals with closed access but offering the Open Access option against payment of APCs (hybrid journals) is strongly discouraged.
Consider publishing with with Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, the open access University Press, instead.

Before submitting an article for publication, compare journals to learn about publishing policies and performance:

  • Scimago Journal & Country Rank: check the ranking of journals based on Scopus data
  • JCR: check the ranking of journals based on Web of Science data
  • Think Check Submit: check the reliability of a publisher
  • SCIrev: check the review and publication time of an article for each journal
  • Open policy finder: check the publisher's policies and the open access options for the journal you would like to publish in

You can deposit your data in the Datarepository Unive, the institutional archive that collects, stores, and preserves research data produced by Ca' Foscari researchers. Even when data cannot be shared, depositing it in Datarepository Unive is recommended to ensure safe storage.

Make your data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). If you do not know how to do this, consult the following guides to managing data according to FAIR principles:

The following are other useful tools for managing your data:

Use tools for analysing the bibliometric impact of academic publications:

  • Impact story: check the online impact of your research
  • Scopus: Elsevier's bibliometric database
  • SciVal: Elsevier's research results analysis platform
  • Web Of Science: Clarivate Analytics bibliometric database

Use open tools and standards to make all your research information accessible in a single profile:

Use the free tools for the collection, management and automatic production of bibliographies:

The guide that answers your questions on Open Science and Open Access::

Highlights

Open Science Policies

In the last year the University Library System has produced two policies about Open Science:

  1. Open Science Policy: Ca' Foscari, recognizing Open Science as one of its guiding principles, encourages and promotes open access to publications and data, the reusability of research outputs, and is committed to setting up the infrastructures and developing the skills necessary for the dissemination of Open Science.
  2. Research Data Management Policy: the University is committed to collecting, archiving and preserving data according to the highest standards and international good practices to guarantee the quality and integrity of scientific research. The policy aims to describe the principles for the correct management of research data.

Datarepository Unive

From July 1st, 2024 Datarepository Unive for managing research data at Ca' Foscari is online. Another step forward towards Open Science. With the new repository, researchers and staff will be able to store and make accessible the data produced or used during their research.
Preserving data does not necessarily mean making it open. Even when data cannot be shared, depositing it in Datarepository Unive is recommended to ensure safe storage.

You can find all the information about the platform, who can use it, what and how to deposit on Datarepository Unive page.

Also the Guidelines for data storage are available.

PlanS

An initiative promoted by cOAlition S and also supported by the European Commission and the European Research Council (ERC) with the aim of making Open Access a reality. The PlanS initiative, which is based on 10 Principles, has resulted in very useful tools:

  1. Right retention strategy: an awareness-raising campaign aimed at authors to create awareness about their publication rights. Tools and advice are proposed, including an invitation to deposit a copy of the Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) in an open access repository (The Rights Retention Strategy and publisher equivocation: an open letter to researcher)
  2. Journal checker: a useful tool that allows researchers to check compliance with the Plan S principles of the journal in which they intend to publish.