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

Fri Jun 14 12:36:46 BST 2013

Hello Luis.

Yes, I know the researcher Tel Amiel, and now contracted researcher at
UNICAMP. He did postdoctoral here in our Faculty, with my supervisor at the
time he was doing his doctorate in education. But to warn you, have
librarians in Brazil involved in the practice of OPEN ACCESS. Even here in
Brazil is the government agency, IBICT (Instituto Brasileiro de Informação
em Ciência e Tecnologia) that is implementing it since 2003. One of the
first steps was the implementation of OJS (Open Journal System/PKP),
translated here for Brazil as SEER "Sistema de Editoração Eletrônica de
Revistas). Furthermore we are involved, which I am part of the Digital
Preservation Project - LOCKSS - coordinated by IBICT. There are many fronts
in the librarians are engaging yes. Now, regarding USP is unfortunate that a
researcher speaking in public, denigrating the OPEN ACCESS. Let's keeping in
contact.

Best regards.

Gildenir Carolino Santos

Faculty of Education

UNICAMP

Campinas, SP

Brazil

De: boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk
[mailto:boai-forum-bounces at ecs.soton.ac.uk] Em nome de Carolina Rossini
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 13 de junho de 2013 20:35
Para: boai-forum at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Cc: luis.nunez at redclara.net; Luis Nuñez
Assunto: [BOAI] Re: a question on the nature of this group

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
<http://www.latindex.unam.mx/buscador/ficRev.html?folio=18159&opcion=3>
&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 <mailto:Email%3Akevin.lindstrom at ubc.ca> 
Voice: (604) 822-0695 <tel:%28604%29%20822-0695> 
scieng.library.ubc.ca

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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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