To promote free access to all scientific production generated by its researchers, teachers and students, since January 2014 the USC has had the Minerva Repository, a single point of access to the digitized bibliographic collections of the USC, which is a key instrument to improve the system of communication and access to knowledge.
Minerva facilitates the dissemination of research results, increases the impact and visibility of scientific publications and papers, ensures the long-term preservation and conservation of the university's intellectual output, promotes the use of USC's own scientific output carried out by its community, and provides value-added services through the use of international standards.
By January 2022, Minerva already had more than 6,200 doctoral theses and 22,000 publications. Its collections are organised into five communities: University Historical Archives, Library, Teaching and Educational Innovation, R+D+I, and Institutional. The largest volume corresponds precisely to the R&D&I community, with more than 17,500 publications (January 2022).
The USC Research Portal offers statistics on the evolution by years of scientific production in open access and links to all publications in the Minerva repository.