[GOAL] Re: Open access is now required by law in Argentina

[Michael Carroll]

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Subject:  [GOAL]  Open access is now required by law in Argentina

Open access is now required by law in Argentina


November 13th. 2013


Today the Argentine Congress passed legislation that requires that all
publicly funded research be available in open access interoperable
institutional repositories (individual or collaborative repositories) with a
maximum embargo of 6 months.  The draft of the legislation had been prepared
in 2010 by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation  (MINCYT
<http://www.mincyt.gob.ar/noticias/es-ley-el-acceso-libre-a-la-informacion-c
ientifica-9521> ) together with an Experts Committee
<http://repositorios.mincyt.gob.ar/comite_expertos.php> of the National
Digital Repositories System  <http://repositorios.mincyt.gob.ar/>
established by the Ministry to support the development and coordination of
digital repositories.


In May 2012 the Chamber of Deputies passed the bill (SciDev
<http://www.scidev.net/global/communication/news/argentina-takes-steps-towar
ds-open-access-law.html>   and Nature
<http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/05/argentine-legislators-approves-open-ac
cess-law.html> comments) and in November 13th. 2013, the Senate passed the
bill which will be enacted and regulated.  The text of the bill approved by
Deputies, with no changes in the Senate, is in Spanish here
<http://www1.hcdn.gov.ar/dependencias/dsecretaria/Periodo2012/PDF2012/SANCIO
NES/1927-D-2011.pdf> .


In Latin America, open access legislation requiring publicly funded research
to be available in open access digital repositories has been approved in
Argentina 
<http://www1.hcdn.gov.ar/dependencias/dsecretaria/Periodo2012/PDF2012/SANCIO
NES/1927-D-2011.pdf> and Perú
<http://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/comisiones/2012/com2012ciencia.nsf/0/cb7c8
63ded37261e05257b3b007c029c/$FILE/1188_Sustitutoria_27MAR2013.pdf> in 2013,
and is being discussed in Congress in Brazil
<http://kuramoto.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/pls387_2011.pdf> (since 2007)
and in México 
<http://www.senado.gob.mx/sgsp/gaceta/62/1/2013-03-14-1/assets/documentos/In
i_Herrera_Anzaldo-CyT_LGE.pdf> (2013).


A region that has a strong tradition of providing open access to research
results in collaborative information systems, as we have described in the
LAC Section of UNESCO GOAP-Global Open Access Portal
<http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-plat
forms/goap/access-by-region/latin-america-and-the-caribbean/> .    In 2012,
9 governments of the region (Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, México, Chile,
Ecuador, Perú, Venezuela, El Salvador) started a network of interoperable
national digital repositories systems, ³La Referencia
<http://lareferencia.redclara.net/rfr/> ², with support from IADB. La
Referencia is the Latin American member of COAR
<http://www.coar-repositories.org/news-media/further-development-of-coar-in-
latin-america/> .


According to estimations of IADB, beneficiaries of open access in the region
could be the 15 million higher education students, 700.000 professors and
70.000 researchers, and the general public.


"the enactment of the law is a response to the monopolistic position of
large international publishers that concentrate the publication of
scientific research" Š "the aim is that scientific research funded by
society be accessible. It is unacceptable that if the national government
funds research, society cannot access to that knowledge" Dr. Alejandro
Ceccatto, Secretary of Science and Technology Articulation in the Ministry
of Science, Technology and Innovation of Argentina (MINCYT news
<http://www.mincyt.gob.ar/noticias/es-ley-el-acceso-libre-a-la-informacion-c
ientifica-9521> )
 
 
 
News shared by
 
Dra. Dominique Babini
CLACSO Latin America Council of Social Sciences - Open Access Program
University of Buenos Aires IIGG Open Access Scholarly Communications
Research Project
Experts Committee of the National Digital Repositories System MINCYT,
Argentina
UNESCO GOAP Global Open Access Portal - Contributor for Latin America &
Caribbean
@dominiquebabini
Skype:  dominique.babini
Mail: dasbabini at gmail.com
 
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