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The materials for the course “Intellectual Property and Open Science: Frictions and Best Practices” are now available on DIGITAL.CSIC.

The training materials are organized into several thematic sections covering basic concepts of intellectual property and open science, publishing and open licenses, good and bad publishing practices, data mining and artificial intelligence, software and hardware licenses, as well as proposals for regulatory reform in the European Union and Spain in the field of open innovation.

Among the available materials are:

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) will be available to all CSIC centers and institutes starting in March 2026. This improvement over previous years allows the entire research community to benefit from one of the most important audiovisual repositories in the field of experimental methods across a wide range of disciplines, from life sciences and biomedicine to chemistry, physics, engineering, and environmental sciences.

Starting April 17, URICI is launching an institutional counter for APCs available under transformative agreements signed with some of the leading scientific publishers. This tool, which is updated weekly and accessible via the PROA platform, provides the research community with accurate and up-to-date information on the availability of articles eligible for open-access publication under agreements that have a limited number of articles.

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) has launched a new poster that invites reflection on the current model of academic publishing and promotes open access as a fundamental principle for the dissemination of knowledge. Under the slogan “Join the fight to set knowledge free,” the initiative reinterprets the figure of Robin Hood as a symbol of redistribution in the realm of scientific communication.