<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thank you. Good to meet you Luis. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,0,0)" lang="EN-US">Gildenir, I am Brazilian actually. But leaving in the US for the past 6 years. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">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 <a href="http://rea.net.br">rea.net.br</a> 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.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">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?</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">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)</span> <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-publishers-are-corrupting-open-access-1.11385">http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-publishers-are-corrupting-open-access-1.11385</a><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">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.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Carol</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Françoise Salager-Meyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:francoise.sm@gmail.com" target="_blank">francoise.sm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>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).</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>You could get in touch with him at</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><a href="mailto:luis.nunez@redclara.net" target="_blank">luis.nunez@redclara.net</a></div>
<div>or</div>
<div><a href="mailto:nunez@ula.ve" target="_blank">nunez@ula.ve</a></div>
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<div>Françoise Salager-Meyer</div>
<div>Facultad de Medicina</div>
<div>Universidad de Los Andes</div>
<div>Mérida</div>
<div>Venezuela</div>
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Greetings from Vancouver<br>
<br>
Interestingly enough, at least from the perspective of an earth
sciences librarian, it appears that some journals that<br>
are in Latindex are also indexed in Web of Science and GeoRef.<br>
<br>
For example,<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.latindex.unam.mx/buscador/ficRev.html?folio=18159&opcion=3" target="_blank">http://www.latindex.unam.mx/buscador/ficRev.html?folio=18159&opc<span></span>ion=3</a><br>
<br>
Knowing the coverage of GeoRef, this doesn't really surprise me.<br>
<br>
Kevin<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><font size="-1">Kevin Lindstrom<br>
Physical Sciences and Engineering Librarian<br>
Woodward Library<br>
2198 Health Sciences Mall <br>
University of British Columbia<br>
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z3<br>
<a href="mailto:Email%3Akevin.lindstrom@ubc.ca" target="_blank">Email:kevin.lindstrom@ubc.ca</a><br>
Voice: <a href="tel:%28604%29%20822-0695" value="+16048220695" target="_blank">(604) 822-0695</a><br>
<a href="http://scieng.library.ubc.ca" target="_blank">scieng.library.ubc.ca</a></font></blockquote>
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</div><blockquote type="cite"><font face="Tahoma" size="-1"><div class="im"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>
[<a href="mailto:boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">boai-forum-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>] on behalf of Jean-Claude Guédon
[<a href="mailto:jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca" target="_blank">jean.claude.guedon@umontreal.ca</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a><br>
</div><b>Subject:</b> [BOAI] Re: a question on the nature of this
group</font><br>
</blockquote><div class="im">
<blockquote type="cite">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...).<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
I am with you 120%' Carolina.<br>
<br>
Jean-Claude<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Le mercredi 12 juin 2013 à 13:06 -0400, Carolina Rossini a écrit
:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Hi all,<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">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.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">I was thinking of
a coalition of sorts, which can
publish statements and positions supporting local
actions.<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>
<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">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.<br>
</blockquote>
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<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite">Carolina<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">--<br>
</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><b>Carolina Rossini</b><br>
</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite">skype:
carolrossini<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">@carolinarossini<br>
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