Acceso libre y antiplagio en los repositorios institucionales y bibliotecas de las Facultades de Educación en España

Abstract

Institutional repositories are a strategy to promote scientific production and Open Educational Resources (OER) in universities. They offer a service that facilitates educational innovation, but also generate great concern about the lack of respect for copyright. This study analyses information on the open access and antiplagiarism policy established by 62 repositories from 75 Spanish universities that are already using this service. The stratified sample involves 20 libraries from every Faculty of Education in Spain (38.5%). The study used a mixed methodological approach, three different information collection instruments were used: repository analysis questionnaire, analysis of the libraries' web pages and in-depth interviews with those responsible for these services. The results obtained allow us to know the type of information existing in the repositories, the institutional policy of free access to scientific production, as well as the way in which information is informed, acts and prevents plagiarism in them. The conclusion is that university repositories enjoy a high degree of open access to information, but there is not much information about plagiarism. However, libraries report antiplagiarism tools and offer training initiatives.