CoARA Action Plan of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2025–2027)
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2026
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CoARA Working Group. (2026). CoARA Action Plan of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2025–2027). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18860418
Abstract
La Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), la universidad presencial más grande de España, es una de las principales instituciones académicas del país con una oferta académica que abarca todas las áreas de conocimiento a través de 26 facultades y 27 institutos universitarios de investigación. La UCM firmó el Acuerdo sobre la Reforma de la Evaluación de la Investigación (ARRA) en marzo de 2023. Este documento recoge el Plan de Acción CoARA de la UCM para el período 2025–2027, elaborado por el Grupo de Trabajo CoARA de la UCM y aprobado por la Comisión de Investigación de la universidad.
El plan aborda seis de los diez compromisos del ARRA, organizados en líneas de acción que incluyen el desarrollo de criterios de evaluación cualitativos y narrativos, la formación y sensibilización de la comunidad investigadora, el intercambio de prácticas con otras instituciones, y la integración de infraestructuras abiertas en los procesos de evaluación. Entre los aspectos más destacados del enfoque de la UCM figura el desarrollo de un sistema de evaluación basado en repositorios que combina el repositorio institucional DOCTA con el Open Peer Review Module (OPRM), así como la participación activa en iniciativas internacionales de transformación de la comunicación científica como COAR Next Generation Repositories y el modelo Publish, Review, Curate.
El Grupo de Trabajo está coordinado desde el Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Transferencia e integrado por representantes de las cinco grandes áreas de conocimiento de la UCM (Artes y Humanidades, Ciencias, Ciencias de la Salud, Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas) y de los Servicios de Biblioteca.
The Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), the largest in-person university in Spain, is one of the country's leading academic institutions with an academic portfolio spanning all areas of knowledge across 26 faculties and 27 university research institutes. UCM signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (ARRA) in March 2023. This document presents UCM's CoARA Action Plan for the period 2025–2027, drafted by the UCM CoARA Working Group and approved by the university's Research Commission. The plan addresses six of the ten ARRA commitments, organised around action lines that include the development of qualitative and narrative evaluation criteria, awareness-raising and training for the research community, exchange of practices with other institutions, and the integration of open infrastructures into assessment processes. A distinctive feature of UCM's approach is the development of a repository-based assessment system combining the institutional repository DOCTA with the Open Peer Review Module (OPRM), alongside active participation in international scholarly communication reform initiatives including COAR Next Generation Repositories and the Publish, Review, Curate model. The Working Group is coordinated by the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Transfer and includes representatives from UCM's five major knowledge areas (Arts and Humanities, Sciences, Health Sciences, Social and Legal Sciences) and Library Services.
The Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), the largest in-person university in Spain, is one of the country's leading academic institutions with an academic portfolio spanning all areas of knowledge across 26 faculties and 27 university research institutes. UCM signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (ARRA) in March 2023. This document presents UCM's CoARA Action Plan for the period 2025–2027, drafted by the UCM CoARA Working Group and approved by the university's Research Commission. The plan addresses six of the ten ARRA commitments, organised around action lines that include the development of qualitative and narrative evaluation criteria, awareness-raising and training for the research community, exchange of practices with other institutions, and the integration of open infrastructures into assessment processes. A distinctive feature of UCM's approach is the development of a repository-based assessment system combining the institutional repository DOCTA with the Open Peer Review Module (OPRM), alongside active participation in international scholarly communication reform initiatives including COAR Next Generation Repositories and the Publish, Review, Curate model. The Working Group is coordinated by the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Transfer and includes representatives from UCM's five major knowledge areas (Arts and Humanities, Sciences, Health Sciences, Social and Legal Sciences) and Library Services.