The University of Iceland is committed to promoting open access to research outputs. Open access ensures that scholarly research is freely available to the public, enhancing the dissemination and impact of scientific knowledge.
Effective data management is essential for ensuring the integrity, accessibility, and reusability of research data. The university of Iceland is currently preparing a Data policy to better support its research community.
The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science provides an international framework for open science policy and practice aimed at reducing the technological and knowledge divide between and within countries. It outlines a common definition, shared values, principles and standards, and proposes actions to support fair and equitable open science for all at individual, institutional, national, regional and international levels.
Open science (Opin vísindi) is an institutional repository for peer reviewed articles published in open access an doctoral dissertations at Icelandic Universities. The repository is OpenAIRE / OpenAIREplus compliant and in accordance with requirements for publication of research results from projects supported by the European research programs.
DATICE (Gagnís) is a data service and archive for Icelandic research data. The service is a collaboration between all Icelandic universities and is set up to ensure open and free access to scientific data for the research community and the general public.
Zenodo is a general purpose open accesse repository developed under the European OpenAIRE progam and operated by CERN. It allows researchers to deposit research papers, data sets, research software, reports, and any other research related digital artifacts. Zenodo is an open dissemination research data repository for the preservation and making available of research, educational and informational content.
