SBA - University Library System

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:

Contacts

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

Highlights

Datarepository Unive and Open Science policies

The Library System, according to the Open Science Policy (2023) and the Research Data Management Policy (2024), has made the Datarepository Unive available from July 2024.
With the new repository, researchers and staff will be able to manage, store and make accessible the data produced or used during their research.

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.

Open Science Annual Report 2025

The 'Open Science 2025 Annual Report' has been published.

The report outlines the activities carried out by the University Library System (SBA) in 2025 in support of the dissemination and adoption of Open Science policies and best practices, examining the various dimensions of Open Science that help promote the cultural change necessary for it to become an established norm.

Open Science Annual Report 2025

The Ministry of University and Research (MUR) joins the European consortium supporting ORE

With MUR’s entry into the European consortium supporting Open Research Europe (ORE) - the open-access, peer-reviewed publishing platform promoted by the European Commission -, researchers affiliated with institutions in participating countries - alongside beneficiaries of EU research programmes - can now publish their results in open access at no cost.
MUR’s participation forms part of the National Plan for Open Science.

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::