Catalan universities started working with repositories in 1999 when they undertook the building of an ETD repository under the coordination of two consortiums: a library one (CBUC) and a supercomputing one (CESCA). Since then, they have been very active creating repositories and aproving Open Access policies.

The gathered experience for all this years allowed that, for instance, the Pompeu Fabra and Politècnica de Catalunya universities connected their research information systems (CRIS) along with their insitutional repositories (IR), so they created portals with research information from the two sources: CRIS and RI.

Once done, in 2013, the group of eleven Catalan universities agreed for the creation of the Catalan Research Portal (PRC). The making of this Portal is being lead by the Catalan University Services Consortium (CSUC) and is testing the data interconnection from different systems to provide a unique interface visualization.

The PRC will be the portal of the current research activity undergoing in Catalonia. Its main goals are: to jointly disseminate the research output of the catalan universities, to promote the exchange of information and knowledge between researches and to promote open access to scientific output.

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

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