The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) makes available to national open access repositories a service that allows them to link investment in R&D projects with the results produced and deposited in open access.

This is a new functionality of the service RECOLECTA that will allow repositories to enrich the source field of financing of the articles they have deposited in open access manually, through a [search engine] (https://buscador.recolecta.fecyt.es/buscador-recolecta-proyecto), and in an automated way, through an [API] (https://buscador.recolecta.fecyt.es/api/rest/proyectos) (Application Programming Interfaces or application programming interface, in Spanish).

This new development is part of the INEOS project(Infrastructures and standards for open science), launched in 2018 in collaboration with the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), the Carlos III Health Institute (ISCIII) and the National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA), and completed in March 2021. INEOS has been a pilot action aimed at designing good practices that allow and facilitate the adequate implementation of the national open access policy through the strengthening of the digital infrastructures necessary to comply with self-archiving mandates.

RECOLECTA, or Open Science Collector, is the national aggregator of FECYT open access repositories. This platform brings together all Spanish digital infrastructures in which open access research results are published and/or deposited. RECOLECTA is the Spanish national node of the Latin American network of open access repositoriesLA Reference, to whichit joined in October 2020.

With this advance, the national repositories and RECOLECTA strengthen their strategic position to measure the degree of compliance with the open access mandate contained in [Law 14/2011, of June 1, on Science, Technology and Innovation] (https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/2011/BOE-A-2011-9617-consolidado.pdf) which obliges researchers who benefit from public aid for R&D&I to deposit the results of their research work, publications and data in institutional or thematic repositories, in access open.