NOVA University Lisbon is committed to advancing science and the widespread dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of society, through the adoption of open, equitable, reproducible, and responsible research practices.
NOVA recognizes Open Science as a guiding paradigm and aims to promote it by supporting research processes and tools that lead to transparency, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and sustainability; promoting new working methods and new social partnerships; encouraging the free dissemination of knowledge and the accessibility and reuse of research results, stimulating open access to publications and data; supporting open participation and dialogue with civil society and other knowledge systems; and building the necessary infrastructures, skills, and incentives for Open Science.
NOVA developed a Guide aimed at researchers across all disciplines from NOVA University Lisbon, providing support through each stage of their research process, offering tools and practices in each chapter.
We hope these guidelines inspire and support you in practicing Open Science by sharing different aspects of your research with a wider audience.
This Guide is aligned with the Open Access Policy of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), published on 7 February 2025.
NOVA researchers can take advantage of the national strategy to encourage subscription publishers to transition to Open Access.
Taking advantage of the consortium agreements negotiated by the Foundation for Science and Technology, it is possible to publish articles in open access under the b-on agreements for free or at lower rates.
With these agreements researchers can publish in open access journals at a discount or in hybrid journals with no Article Processing Charges (APC’s).
The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), as part of its commitment to creating conditions for the authors of the national academic and scientific system to publish their works in open access, has decided to join the Open Research Europe (ORE) initiative. Together with partners from 8 European countries, it has committed to co-financing this project launched by the European Commission.
This diamond open access initiative will complement the open access publishing options already provided through the transformative agreements established by b-on, enabling all authors affiliated with national institutions to, from 2026 and for an initial period of 5 years, publish their articles on the ORE platform in open access, free of charge.
More details can be found here.
For long-term preservation purposes the European Commission (EC) and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) require self-archiving (by the author or a representative) publications in a thematic or institutional repository (Green OA), such as RUN at NOVA.
At NOVA, researchers with user access to our Research Information System (PURE) can take advantage of the direct conector with RUN, by automatically synchronizing publications with a validated copyright in Pure. This validation process is provided by your local Pure editors and allows researchers to fulfil the self-archive required by FCT by just interacting with one system (PURE).
- PURE is NOVA’s Current Research Information System (CRIS). Information held in PURE relates to research staff and their publications and activities information. The system allows for relationships and associations to be created between research inputs and outputs, providing a broad picture of research activity at individual, department, research unit, academic unit and University levels.
- RUN – Repository of NOVA University stores, manages, and gives access to the university’s intellectual output. All authors retain their rights and all works are available under a Creative Commons License.
- RCAAP – «Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal» is a portal that aims to collect, aggregate and index Open Access scientific contents from Portuguese institutional repositories, such as RUN.
- OpenAIRE – Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe is a network for Open Access repositories, such as RCAAP; archives and journals that are aligned with Open Access policies.
To upload records to Pure, please check the manuals below:
To upload the electronic version of your research output in Pure’s record, follow the steps below:
Fill in the section Electronic version(s), and related files and links
❶ Select and click «Add electronic version (file, DOI, or link) …»
❷ Select and click one of the «types»: Document | DOI | link
You can select several types for the same research output
❸ To upload a document, select an click the following option:
❹ Drag file or browse your computer
❺ Name the file
❻ Choose the document version
❼ Choose the access to the electronic version
❽ Choose the licence to document
❾ Click Create in the pop-up window to add information
NOVA is aligned with the national FCT document “Política sobre acesso aberto a publicações científicas resultantes de investigação financiada pela FCT” (The policy comes into force on February 7 and applies to scientific articles, books, book chapters and monographs, as well as doctoral theses and master’s dissertations).
A support website was created, which aims to help researchers comply with the Policy, helping them follow the necessary steps up to Open Access publication: https://acessoaberto.fct.pt/
NOVA FCT – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia | Ana Alves Pereira
NOVA FCSH – Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas | Cátia Carvalho
Nova SBE – NOVA School of Business and Economics | Susana Lopes
NMS – NOVA Medical School | Teresa Costa
NSL – NOVA School of Law | Vera Alves
IHMT NOVA – Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical | Salima Rehemtula
NOVA IMS – NOVA Information Management School | Elvira Costa
ITQB NOVA– Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica | Isabel Murta
ENSP NOVA– Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública | Isabel Andrade
Reitoria
UGIC – Unidade de Gestão de Informação Científica | Tiago Guedes