Scientific Output from Latin America and the Caribbean – Identification of the Main Institutions for Regional Open Access Integration Strategies

Latin America is a region in which two thirds of the investment in research and development are funded by State resources. It can be foreseen that in the near future governments in the region will encourage and promote, or require by law or mandates, that scientific output from the region become visible and accessible in open access repositories and portals. This paper presents the results of a survey to identify the institutions of the region with the largest volume of scientific output and most exposure of their output on the Web, in order to help make those institutions visible to national, regional and international organizations involved in open access strategies and programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. The results show a leading position by universities from Brazil; a strong presence of universities from Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Chile and Venezuela, and some presence of universities from Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Urugua

Bibliography on open access in Latin America and the Caribbean

Bibliography on open access in Latin America and the Caribbean. Selection mainly based on open access publications describing open access initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prepared for UNESCO-Latin America and the Caribbean Section of the UNESCO-GOAP Global Open Access Portal

Declaración CLACSO sobre el acceso abierto al conocimiento gestionado como un bien común

In order to contribute to the democratization of production and access to knowledge necessary for the development of our societies, we recommend governments, agencies and institutions that fund and/or perform research and researchers who manage research project, to promote policies, actions and funding necessary to implement the following principles in scholarly communication

The risk of open access becoming integrated into existing commercial publishing - the need of a global system of noncommercial open access scholarly communications

In Europe and USA scholarly communications have been outsourced and one of the most profitable businesses was built by main international commercial scholarly publishers, which today offer to take care of open access, building a new enclosure to knowledge for the Global South, and distracting governments, funding agencies and the scholarly community, in the North and in the South, from the need to build a global open access ecosystem based on shared and interoperable institutional, national and international non-commercial open access repositories and publishing platforms. If we want voices from the Global South to have more participation and impact in global conversations about issues that concern us all, the global scholarly community has to take good care of open access scholarly communications, including the peer-review, quality control and evaluation indicators systems

CLACSO´s Declaration on Open Access to knowledge managed as a commons by the scholarly community

CLACSO´s Declaration on Open Access to knowledge managed as a commons by the scholarly community. Declaration approved by CLACSO´s XXV General Assembly, Medellín, Colombia, November 9th. 2015. https://www.clacso.org.ar/conferencia2015/documentos/asamblea/declaraciones/CLACSO-Declaration-on-open-access-to-knowledge-managed-as-a-commons-by-the-scholarly-community.pd

CLACSO´s Declaration on Open Access to knowledge managed as a commons by the scholarly community

CLACSO´s Declaration on Open Access to knowledge managed as a commons by the scholarly community. Declaration approved by CLACSO´s XXV General Assembly, Medellín, Colombia, November 9th. 2015. https://www.clacso.org.ar/conferencia2015/documentos/asamblea/declaraciones/CLACSO-Declaration-on-open-access-to-knowledge-managed-as-a-commons-by-the-scholarly-community.pd

The risk of open access becoming integrated into existing commercial publishing - the need of a global system of noncommercial open access scholarly communications

In Europe and USA scholarly communications have been outsourced and one of the most profitable businesses was built by main international commercial scholarly publishers, which today offer to take care of open access, building a new enclosure to knowledge for the Global South, and distracting governments, funding agencies and the scholarly community, in the North and in the South, from the need to build a global open access ecosystem based on shared and interoperable institutional, national and international non-commercial open access repositories and publishing platforms. If we want voices from the Global South to have more participation and impact in global conversations about issues that concern us all, the global scholarly community has to take good care of open access scholarly communications, including the peer-review, quality control and evaluation indicators systems

Open access initiatives in the Global South affirm the lasting value of a shared scholarly communications system.

Developing countries stand to benefit greatly from a more open and equitable international scholarly communication system, but Dominique Babini argues new commercial enclosures to access are also emerging. The international community would do well to follow the examples of initiatives in Latin America, where open access is already the norm and where costs are shared among members of scholarly communities to ensure lasting impact

World landscape of repositories and repository networks: achievements, challenges, opportunities

Presentation at OAI 10 - CERN - UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communications. Session on the Future of Repositories University of Geneva, 21-23 June 2017 http://indico.cern.ch/e/oai10 Video of presentation: https://bit.ly/2xsk7B