<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>Great news Dominique! Felicidades!</div><div><br></div><div>-Michael</div><div><br></div><div><div>Michael W. Carroll</div><div>Professor of Law and Director,</div><div>Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property</div><div>American University Washington College of Law</div><div>4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW</div><div>Washington, D.C. 20016</div><div>Office: 202.274.4047</div><div><br></div><div>Faculty page: <a href="http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/mcarroll">http://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/mcarroll</a>/</div><div>Blog: <a href="http://carrollogos.blogspot.com">http://carrollogos.blogspot.com</a></div><div>Creative Commons: <a href="http://creativecommons.org">http://creativecommons.org</a></div><div>Public Library of Science: <a href="http://www.plos.org">http://www.plos.org</a></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Dominique Babini <<a href="mailto:dasbabini@gmail.com">dasbabini@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, November 15, 2013 9:01 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <<a href="mailto:goal@eprints.org">goal@eprints.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:sparc-oaforum@arl.org">sparc-oaforum@arl.org</a>>, <<a href="mailto:boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk">boai-forum@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>>, <<a href="mailto:accesouvert@groupes.renater.fr">accesouvert@groupes.renater.fr</a>>, <<a href="mailto:okfn-discuss@s116.okserver.org">okfn-discuss@s116.okserver.org</a>>, WSIS Knowledge Communities <<a href="mailto:wsisplatform@unesco.org">wsisplatform@unesco.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [GOAL] Open access is now required by law in Argentina<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Open access is now required by law in Argentina</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">November
13th. 2013 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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 <a href="http://www.mincyt.gob.ar/noticias/es-ley-el-acceso-libre-a-la-informacion-cientifica-9521">Ministry
of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINCYT</a>) together with an <a href="http://repositorios.mincyt.gob.ar/comite_expertos.php">Experts Committee</a>
of the <a href="http://repositorios.mincyt.gob.ar/">National Digital
Repositories System </a> established by the
Ministry to support the development and coordination of digital repositories.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In May 2012
the Chamber of Deputies passed the bill (<a href="http://www.scidev.net/global/communication/news/argentina-takes-steps-towards-open-access-law.html">SciDev</a> and <a href="http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/05/argentine-legislators-approves-open-access-law.html">Nature</a>
comments) and in November 13<sup>th</sup>. 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, <a href="http://www1.hcdn.gov.ar/dependencias/dsecretaria/Periodo2012/PDF2012/SANCIONES/1927-D-2011.pdf">is
in Spanish here</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In Latin
America, open access legislation requiring publicly funded research to be
available in open access digital repositories has been approved in <a href="http://www1.hcdn.gov.ar/dependencias/dsecretaria/Periodo2012/PDF2012/SANCIONES/1927-D-2011.pdf">Argentina</a>
and <a href="http://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/comisiones/2012/com2012ciencia.nsf/0/cb7c863ded37261e05257b3b007c029c/$FILE/1188_Sustitutoria_27MAR2013.pdf">Perú</a>
in 2013, and is being discussed in Congress in <a href="http://kuramoto.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/pls387_2011.pdf">Brazil</a>
(since 2007) and in <a href="http://www.senado.gob.mx/sgsp/gaceta/62/1/2013-03-14-1/assets/documentos/Ini_Herrera_Anzaldo-CyT_LGE.pdf">México</a>
(2013).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A region
that has a strong tradition of providing open access to research results in
collaborative information systems, as we have described in the <a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/access-by-region/latin-america-and-the-caribbean/">LAC
Section of UNESCO GOAP-Global Open Access Portal</a>. In 2012, 9 governments of the region (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, México,
Chile, Ecuador, Perú, Venezuela, El Salvador) started a network of
interoperable national digital repositories systems, “<a href="http://lareferencia.redclara.net/rfr/">La Referencia</a>”, with support
from IADB. La Referencia is the <a href="http://www.coar-repositories.org/news-media/further-development-of-coar-in-latin-america/">Latin
American member of COAR</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; "><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">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.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:106.2pt"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:106.2pt"><span lang="EN-US">"<i>the
enactment of the law is a response to the monopolistic position of large
international publishers that concentrate the publication of scientific
research" … "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</i>"
Dr. Alejandro Ceccatto, Secretary of Science and Technology Articulation
in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Argentina (<a href="http://www.mincyt.gob.ar/noticias/es-ley-el-acceso-libre-a-la-informacion-cientifica-9521">MINCYT
news</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">News shared
by</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dra. Dominique
Babini</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt">CLACSO </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt">Latin America
Council of Social Sciences - Open Access Program</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt">University of Buenos Aires </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt">IIGG Open Access
Scholarly Communications Research Project</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt">Experts Committee of the
National Digital Repositories System</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt"> MINCYT, Argentina</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt">UNESCO GOAP </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt">Global Open Access
Portal - Contributor for Latin America & Caribbean</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9pt">@dominiquebabini</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Skype: dominique.babini</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">Mail: <a href="mailto:dasbabini@gmail.com">dasbabini@gmail.com</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9pt">CLACSO - Estados Unidos 1168 (C1101AAX) Buenos Aires,
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