[BOAI] Re: a question on the nature of this group

[Carolina Rossini]

Thank you. Good to meet you Luis.
Gildenir, I am Brazilian actually. But leaving in the US for the past 6
years.
I am a lawyer, academic and activist on many issues concerning access to
knowledge. I was part of Creative Commons Brazil and helped many journals
(and also Scielo) to adopt CC. Another of my efforts that thankfully is now
lead by a broader and very energetic community is the rea.net.br on open
educational resources. A UNICAMP professor contributes a lot with it -Tel
Amiel, it would be good if you reach out to him. In Brazil and in Latin
America the Librarians have not got much involved in the politics of all of
this.

Sometimes I just feel this list has a lot of knowledge, but we exchange
just among of us. I have an activist heart, so I think it is highly
important to bring more people to the debate ... so, my question
is...should this list has a "public face"...as a coalition that also
supports regional activities and also responds for calls for help?

For instance, in USP something really bad happened recently....The dean for
research for the whole university sent internal communications to the USP
community saying that folks should not publish in OA because OA is a scam
(!!!!!!)...his allegations were based on the Nature article (and of course,
were totally without context)
http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-publishers-are-corrupting-open-access-1.11385

This is REALLY bad, but nobody has done much about it. It would be great to
have a BOAI coalition that help in this cases by providing minds and words
to help clarify such issues and publish statements in the name of OA.

Carol

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Françoise Salager-Meyer <
francoise.sm at gmail.com> wrote:

>  A very active OA defensor in Latin America is LUIS NUÑEZ from the
> University of The Andes (Mérida, Venezuela) who also works in Bucaramanga
> (Universidad Industrial de Santander. Bucaramanga. Colombia).
>
> You could get in touch with him at
>
> luis.nunez at redclara.net
> or
> nunez at ula.ve
>
> Françoise Salager-Meyer
> Facultad de Medicina
> Universidad de Los Andes
> Mérida
> Venezuela
>
> ***
>
> Greetings from Vancouver
>
> Interestingly enough, at least from the perspective of an earth sciences
> librarian, it appears that some journals that
> are in Latindex are also indexed in Web of Science and GeoRef.
>
> For example,
>
> http://www.latindex.unam.mx/buscador/ficRev.html?folio=18159&opcion=3
>
> Knowing the coverage of GeoRef, this doesn't really surprise me.
>
> Kevin
>
>
> Kevin Lindstrom
> Physical Sciences and Engineering Librarian
> Woodward Library
> 2198 Health Sciences Mall
> University of British Columbia
> Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z3
> Email:kevin.lindstrom at ubc.ca
> Voice: (604) 822-0695
> scieng.library.ubc.ca
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk [
> boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] on behalf of Jean-Claude Guédon [
> jean.claude.guedon at umontreal.ca]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:00 AM
> *To:* boai-forum at ecs.soton.ac.uk
> *Subject:* [BOAI] Re: a question on the nature of this group
>
> Having tried for years to demonstrate that what is going on outside the
> North Atlantic region of the world, is significant at a world scale - how
> long did it take for people to begin paying attention to both SciELO and
> RedALyC? Who pays attention to the 6000 journals vetted by Latindex? Why
> are people mesmerized by the Web of Science, SCOPUS and Ulrich's? - and
> after publishing several articles on this kind of issues, I would support
> Carolina's call with passion. I would simply add that local actions are
> wonderful, but one should never forget that their potential world impact is
> also great. The North Atlantic region is not the sole fount of wisdom in
> the scientific world, and it should not masquerade as the only site of
> "international" science (international here meaning "core journals" as
> defined by Thomson-Reuters...).
>
> What SciELO and RedALyC are doing is probably far more significant than
> all the battles in Britain about a silly Finch report, because the Finch
> report affects only Britain and Brazil's GDP is just about to pass that of
> Britain, if it is not already the case. The future lies with Brazil, not
> Britain, or France or Germany.
>
> I am with you 120%' Carolina.
>
> Jean-Claude
>
>
>
> Le mercredi 12 juin 2013 à 13:06 -0400, Carolina Rossini a écrit :
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
>  In the past few days, thinking on how to advance OA in Latin America, I
> was wondering if the members of this list could play a more active role in
> supporting regional policy initiatives.
>
>
>
>  I was thinking of a coalition of sorts, which can publish statements and
> positions supporting local actions.
>
>
>
>  What do you think? This would not change other roles for this list,
> regarding discussions on concepts and events, but would add a additional
> and spicy element.
>
>
>
>  Carolina
>
>
>
>  --
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> *Carolina Rossini*
>
> http://carolinarossini.net/
>
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>
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>
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