[GOAL] Open acess in Latin America and challenges for global OA

[Dominique Babini]

Hello all,

>From the 20 minutes video on "Open Access in Latin
America"<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNlGabHIHQE&feature=youtu.be>

 - only 5% of Latin America and the Caribbean quality journals (as
identified by Latindex) are in WoS, and 15% in Scopus
- early adoption in the region of OA publishing of journals with no APC´s:
in SciELO, Redalyc and university journal portals, e.g.: university journal
portals in OJS with more than 100 journals each are University of Sao
Paulo, UNAM in México and University of Chile
- regional initiative for national systems of digital repositories: La
Referencia
- national OA legislation approved in 2013 in Peru, Argentina, México:
still in Congress in Brazil:  in all cases requires creation of national
and institutional OA digital repositories for gov-funded research.

>From a developing region perspective:
- APC´s are a new enclosure, this time from within OA
- We could build, as a global commons, a "basic" OA global ecosystem based
on shared OA digital repositories
- and on top of that, payed value-added services can be charged to who can
pay for them
-  In the last minutes of the video I cite John Willinksy at a recent event
on open science in Poland, when he says that we need to think who is being
included and who is being excluded in the scholarly communication system we
design

To manage open access as a commons within the global scholarly community
may perhaps be less utopian than thinking we can cover the costs of a
global OA APC model with full participation of developing regions.

This video session<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNlGabHIHQE&feature=youtu.be>was
presented on April 29th., at the event "Research without borders: Open
Access in the Americas" organized by Columbia University Scholarly
Communication Program and the Digital Humanities Center, with invited
panelists Heather Joseph, Michael Sinatra and myself.   A video of the
complete panel will soon be announced in the program
webpage<http://scholcomm.columbia.edu/2014/04/08/research-without-borders-open-access-in-the-americas/>
.

Kind regards, Dominique


Dominique Babini
* Latin America Council of Social Sciences-CLACSO/Open Access Area
Coordinator
* University of Buenos Aires-IIGG/Open access scholarly communications
researcher

* Argentina National Digital Repositories System Experts Committee
* UNESCO-GOAP Global Open Access Portal/Latin America Contributor

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