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What is known today as “open access” began in 1998 in Latin America with SciELO , the first virtual scientific library in the region and which is now supported by 16 countries. This initiative arose thanks to the development of the Internet and the desire of Latin American researchers and educators to internationalize and democratize access to scientific production.
The philosophy of open access came to represent an advantageous model for researchers and publishers, since it guaranteed public access and increased Ukraine Mobile Number List the visibility of scientific articles. Little by little the model was developed until the concept of “Open Access” was coined in the Budapest declaration in 2002. Open access has various definitions, but perhaps the clearest is that of Peter Suber that appears in the document “ Open Access Publishing in European Networks ”:
“Open access is a method of distributing or allowing access to academic research digitally, online, free of charge and free of copyright and licensing restrictions that hinder free circulation and consultation.” In Latin America and the Caribbean, open access is today a hallmark and its results show the magnitude of the phenomenon. 1 Between the two main initiatives, SciELO and RedALyC , access is provided to almost 1,300 scientific journals and more than 750,000 peer-reviewed scientific articles . SciELO also gives access to more than 400 electronic books. This has increased the visibility of the region's intellectual production in the world through the Internet, which did not happen before and continues to have a great impact.
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2The model has democratized access to information and eliminated restrictions on intellectual production generated with public funds. More than 1.5 million articles per day are registered in SciELO alone . In the case of e-books, there have been more than 15 million downloads since the SciELO e-book service began in 2012. 3 Complementary and alternative mechanisms have been generated to measure the scientific impact of publications and their value for science and society. SciELO indexed 9 million citations of its content . They have generated new regional forms of collaboration between institutions such as LArereference , which try to create alliances between institutional repositories through virtual connection to a system that allows simultaneous search in all of them. Fig.
THE Reference also offers a search system Fig. 2 THE Reference also offers a search system 5 The impact of SciELO during its 15 years of operation in 13 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal and South Africa, has been such that UNESCO, with the support of the Government of Japan, has produced an in-depth study on SciELO and its effect on scholarly communication , which includes models that other countries can use and adapt to local needs to create similar open access initiatives. 6Legislation on open access in Latin America is advancing, but it is still scarce and dispersed .One of the most notorious chapters in this field took place last December 2013 when the largest publisher in the world, Elsevier, sued the University of Calgary and Academia.edu for making scientific articles by professors available from their websites .
New open access laws have recently been approved in Peru and Argentina (in both cases in 2013) and are already being drafted and debated in the parliaments of Brazil and Mexico, but there is still much to do. Open access has already come a long way in Latin America and the Caribbean and now faces great challenges such as its economic sustainability and its ability to resist the interests of large publishers and the measurement of the “value” and impact of its scientific results What do you think will be the evolution of the open access model in Latin America and the Caribbean? After the publication of the manuscript, the “authors” confessed that the article had been generated by a computer program and that they intended to demonstrate the weakness of the filters of open access journals. But on the other hand, elite magazines do not escape errors either. Between 2004 and 2005, Science magazine published two articles by Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang with serious flaws in procedures, simulated tests and false data.
The philosophy of open access came to represent an advantageous model for researchers and publishers, since it guaranteed public access and increased Ukraine Mobile Number List the visibility of scientific articles. Little by little the model was developed until the concept of “Open Access” was coined in the Budapest declaration in 2002. Open access has various definitions, but perhaps the clearest is that of Peter Suber that appears in the document “ Open Access Publishing in European Networks ”:
“Open access is a method of distributing or allowing access to academic research digitally, online, free of charge and free of copyright and licensing restrictions that hinder free circulation and consultation.” In Latin America and the Caribbean, open access is today a hallmark and its results show the magnitude of the phenomenon. 1 Between the two main initiatives, SciELO and RedALyC , access is provided to almost 1,300 scientific journals and more than 750,000 peer-reviewed scientific articles . SciELO also gives access to more than 400 electronic books. This has increased the visibility of the region's intellectual production in the world through the Internet, which did not happen before and continues to have a great impact.
New Picture
2The model has democratized access to information and eliminated restrictions on intellectual production generated with public funds. More than 1.5 million articles per day are registered in SciELO alone . In the case of e-books, there have been more than 15 million downloads since the SciELO e-book service began in 2012. 3 Complementary and alternative mechanisms have been generated to measure the scientific impact of publications and their value for science and society. SciELO indexed 9 million citations of its content . They have generated new regional forms of collaboration between institutions such as LArereference , which try to create alliances between institutional repositories through virtual connection to a system that allows simultaneous search in all of them. Fig.
THE Reference also offers a search system Fig. 2 THE Reference also offers a search system 5 The impact of SciELO during its 15 years of operation in 13 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal and South Africa, has been such that UNESCO, with the support of the Government of Japan, has produced an in-depth study on SciELO and its effect on scholarly communication , which includes models that other countries can use and adapt to local needs to create similar open access initiatives. 6Legislation on open access in Latin America is advancing, but it is still scarce and dispersed .One of the most notorious chapters in this field took place last December 2013 when the largest publisher in the world, Elsevier, sued the University of Calgary and Academia.edu for making scientific articles by professors available from their websites .
New open access laws have recently been approved in Peru and Argentina (in both cases in 2013) and are already being drafted and debated in the parliaments of Brazil and Mexico, but there is still much to do. Open access has already come a long way in Latin America and the Caribbean and now faces great challenges such as its economic sustainability and its ability to resist the interests of large publishers and the measurement of the “value” and impact of its scientific results What do you think will be the evolution of the open access model in Latin America and the Caribbean? After the publication of the manuscript, the “authors” confessed that the article had been generated by a computer program and that they intended to demonstrate the weakness of the filters of open access journals. But on the other hand, elite magazines do not escape errors either. Between 2004 and 2005, Science magazine published two articles by Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang with serious flaws in procedures, simulated tests and false data.