Towards global cooperative noncommercial open access - contributions from Latin America @dominiquebabini Consultative Forum on Open Access: Towards high level interventions for research and development in Africa Network of African Science Academies - NASAC Nairobi, Kenia, 29-30 January 2015
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Towards global cooperativenoncommercial open access -
contributions from Latin America
@dominiquebabini
Consultative Forum on Open Access: Towards high level interventions for research and development in Africa
Network of African Science Academies - NASACNairobi, Kenia, 29-30 January 2015
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The International Council for Science (ICSU) advocates the following goals for open access (2014):
The scientific record should be:• free of financial barriers for any researcher to
contribute to;• free of financial barriers for any user to access
• subsidized scholarly publishing - notoutsourced to commercial publishers
• evaluation process rewards publishing in international IF journals
• output in local language, in local publications: lacks international visibility, access and recognition
• output in English, in int. journals: lacks local visibility and access for non-subscribers+civil society+policy makers
22 countries
Population: 600.000.000
Map source: Wikipedia
Main languages:
Spanish/Portuguese
Scientific output (main
countries): Brazil, México,
Argentina, Colombia, Chile
research output poorly represented in international indexes
Source: Juan Pablo Alperín (2014). World scaled by number of documents in Web of Science by
Authors Living There. LSE Impact Blog
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16 % quality journals from Latin America in Scopus (841
Journals) and 5 % in WoS (294 journals)
regional Open Access declaration (2005)Salvador de Bahía (Brazil) Declaration on Open Access: The
Developing World Perspective (promoted by SciELO)
We urge governments to make Open Access a high priority in science policies including:
• requiring that publicly funded research is made available through Open Access;
• considering the cost of publication as part of the cost of research;
• strengthening the local OA journals, repositories and other relevant initiatives;
• promoting integration of developing countries scientific information in the worldwide body of knowledge.
We call on all stakeholders in the international community to work together to ensure that scientific information is openly accessible and freely available to all
Latin America: regional cooperative approachto open access
1. regional subject digital repositories
2. regional open accessjournal portals
3. regional network of institutional repositories
agriculture
health
Social sciences
Environmental health
public administration
labour
REGIONALSUBJECTREPOSITORIES
Latin America open access journals
3.500 quality journals in the region (945 from Brazil), subsidized by academicand scientific institutions
76% are OA
No APC tradition in the region
Benefits of OA wide adoption
Visibility + access
More possibilities of citations to research results
Trends in Latin America
• Journals improve quality and multiply visibility, access, indicators, participating in journal portals
– Regional journal portals
– National portals of quality journals
– University journal portals
Regional Latin American OA peer-reviewjournal Portals
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• Started 1997
• Network of national qualityjournals focal points
• Today 1.064 journals LatinAmerica
• Aprox. 500.000 articles
• Bibliometric indicators
• Scielo Citation Index WoS
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• Started 2003
• In collaboration with journaleditors from the region
• Today 780 journals LA
• Aprox. 280.000 articles
• Indicators of scientificoutput (institutions, countries, subjects)
Regional journals harvester: Portal de Portales Latindex www.latindex.ppl.unam.mx/
UNESCO supports development of open access regional strategies, national policies, consultations, open access indicators, e.g.:
national policies for identification of qualityjournals
Trends national lists/portals of quality journals managed by national research funding agency In charge of evaluation of scientific and academic journals quality certification (related with regional quality
requirements from Latindex, SciELO and Redalyc Journals quality certification related to evaluation of
– A good example of mandatory institutionalpolicy: University of São Paulo, Brazilhttp://www.producao.usp.br/page/politicaAcessoEnUS
National
• AO legislation approved byCongress in– Peru (2013)– Argentina (2013)– Mexico (2014)
Requires creation of OA digital repositories for gov.-fundedresearch results
• OA legislation proposal in Congress– Brazil (since 2007)
high level interventions for national cooperation of open access repositories – the case of Argentina
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINCYT)
– Digital Repositories Experts Committee (since 2009) to:
• Select and adapt international standards for digital repositories
• Definition on contents to be considered for national harvester
• Requirements for institutions that need financial support for digital repositories – evaluation of funding requests
• Draft for OA national legislation proposal
• Guidelines for institutions to be members of the:
– National System of Digital Repositories (SNRD/MINCYT)
• Membership benefits: training, funding, technical support
• Promotes regional networks of repositories within country
• National harvester
• Open access week event
• National focal point of La Referencia (regional network of digital repositories) and COAR
Argentina´s national legislation approved in 2013Main concepts - http://repositorios.mincyt.gob.ar/recursos.php
• Research institutions which receive government funding shall develop individual or shared interoperable open access institutional repositories for research output financed by public funds (journal articles, scientific reports, theses, research data, etc.)
• Those institutions will
have to issue policies for
open access to primary
research data in repositories
Argentina´s national legislation approved in 2013 main concepts (2)
Researchers, technologists, faculty, postdoctoral fellows and master and doctoral students whose research activity is financed with public funds, shall deposit or expressly authorize the submission of a copy of the final version of its scientific and technological production published or accepted for publication and/or that has gone through an approval process by a competent authority or jurisdiction in the matter, in the open access digital repositories institutions
Maximum embargo: 6 months (5 years for research data) or expiration of the term of protection of industrial property rights or the termination of previous agreements. During embargo, metadata will be provided in open access.
Regional strategy for Latin America and theCaribbean
Recommendations from Regional Consultation on Open Access to Scientific Information, sponsored by UNESCO, Kingston, March 2013 - 23 countries represented
• Gold and Green routes are suitable form of OA for the region
– For Green routes, inclusive and cooperative OA solutions should be promoted to avoid new enclosures
– the Gold OA route in the region should continue its present emphasis on sharing costs.