Hi all,
I'm on the executive council at Force11 (http://force11.org/). This is an organisation interested in the future of scientific publishing, and especially questions like Open Access business models and executable/Open Data.
A question that has come up recently there involves what we might broadly call incubator initiatives: i.e. initiatives that involve sharing best practice in, support for the development of, or other community building activities for scientific and scholarly publishing.
I know of a number of such initiatives in the Humanities and Social Sciences (e.g. Erudit, revues.org, some of the work at the MLA), but all of them are located in High Income Economies and they tend to operate with that context in mind. I've recently seen a number of lectures talking about differences in how Science is published in Mid and Low regions (particularly at Force11's great "Beyond the PDF 2" conference, recently held in Amsterdam).
Does anybody know of similar initiatives focused specifically on publication and dissemination issues in Mid and Low Income regions? Or focussing on geography rather than income, specifically in Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, China? I'm as interested in Scientific publishing and humanities, and within the Humanities both DH and outside that into more traditional fields.
I should say I'm speaking solely for myself here: our discussion at Force11 got me thinking.
I appreciate any tips people might be able to supply.
-dan
Dear all, Dear Dan,
Here are some informations concerning your question.
*Open access :* African journals online : http://www.ajol.info/ Scielo : http://www.scielo.br/ Redalyc : http://www.redalyc.org/
*Not open access :* C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from humanities and social science journals : http://www.ceeol.com/
I would be interested in knowing more initiatives like this.
Best regards, Marin
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Daniel O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@uleth.cawrote:
Hi all,
I'm on the executive council at Force11 (http://force11.org/). This is an organisation interested in the future of scientific publishing, and especially questions like Open Access business models and executable/Open Data.
A question that has come up recently there involves what we might broadly call incubator initiatives: i.e. initiatives that involve sharing best practice in, support for the development of, or other community building activities for scientific and scholarly publishing.
I know of a number of such initiatives in the Humanities and Social Sciences (e.g. Erudit, revues.org, some of the work at the MLA), but all of them are located in High Income Economies and they tend to operate with that context in mind. I've recently seen a number of lectures talking about differences in how Science is published in Mid and Low regions (particularly at Force11's great "Beyond the PDF 2" conference, recently held in Amsterdam).
Does anybody know of similar initiatives focused specifically on publication and dissemination issues in Mid and Low Income regions? Or focussing on geography rather than income, specifically in Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, China? I'm as interested in Scientific publishing and humanities, and within the Humanities both DH and outside that into more traditional fields.
I should say I'm speaking solely for myself here: our discussion at Force11 got me thinking.
I appreciate any tips people might be able to supply.
-dan
--
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To those of you who are interested in this question (or in scholarly publishing more generally): let me recommend that you sign up at http://force11.org/. This is beginning to look like a really interesting group. Not one that will replace all the various other groups and associations out there, but one that is very interested in discovering and working with the gaps between the different disciplinary areas. It began as a group focussed on the needs particularly of scientists and on data publication, but it is rapidly developing in ways that are very interesting to everybody else interested in scholarly publishing.
And I think their Beyond the PDF conference--despite its name--is going to become extremely interesting.
-dan
On 13-05-26 01:11 AM, Marin Dacos wrote:
Dear all, Dear Dan,
Here are some informations concerning your question.
*Open access :* African journals online : http://www.ajol.info/ Scielo : http://www.scielo.br/ Redalyc : http://www.redalyc.org/
*Not open access :* C.E.E.O.L. is an online archive which provides access to full text PDF articles from humanities and social science journals : http://www.ceeol.com/
I would be interested in knowing more initiatives like this.
Best regards, Marin
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca mailto:daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca> wrote:
Hi all, I'm on the executive council at Force11 (http://force11.org/). This is an organisation interested in the future of scientific publishing, and especially questions like Open Access business models and executable/Open Data. A question that has come up recently there involves what we might broadly call incubator initiatives: i.e. initiatives that involve sharing best practice in, support for the development of, or other community building activities for scientific and scholarly publishing. I know of a number of such initiatives in the Humanities and Social Sciences (e.g. Erudit, revues.org <http://revues.org>, some of the work at the MLA), but all of them are located in High Income Economies and they tend to operate with that context in mind. I've recently seen a number of lectures talking about differences in how Science is published in Mid and Low regions (particularly at Force11's great "Beyond the PDF 2" conference, recently held in Amsterdam). Does anybody know of similar initiatives focused specifically on publication and dissemination issues in Mid and Low Income regions? Or focussing on geography rather than income, specifically in Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, China? I'm as interested in Scientific publishing and humanities, and within the Humanities both DH and outside that into more traditional fields. I should say I'm speaking solely for myself here: our discussion at Force11 got me thinking. I appreciate any tips people might be able to supply. -dan -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539 _______________________________________________ globaloutlookdh-l mailing list globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca <mailto:globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca> http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l You are currently subscribed to this list in NON-digest mode. This means you receive every message as it is posted. If this represents too much traffic, you can also subscribe in DIGEST mode. This sends out a single email once a day containing the entire day's postings. To change your settings go to http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/options/globaloutlookdh-l You can request a password reminder from this page if you have forgotten yours.-- Marin Dacos - http://www.openedition.org Director - Centre for Open Electronic Publishing OpenEdition is now a Facility of Excellence http://www.openedition.org/10221?lang=en**(Equipex)
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Hi Dan,
You may have this already, but just in case, as they are by no means well known enough: the JSTOR Developing Nations Access and African Access Initiatives both offer reduced-cost or free access to all or most of the JSTOR content to all academic and non-profit institutions in the 80 countries in the lower tier of World Bank economic ratings and in all of Africa (they are two separate initiatives and these criteria overlap significantly):
http://about.jstor.org/libraries/developing-nations-access-initiative http://about.jstor.org/libraries/african-access-initiative
There are also a variety of programs to make the archives available to other groups and individuals.
(I'm not affiliated in any way with JSTOR, but given the intense media attention JSTOR has received, it's a topic I've spent some time investigating.)
David
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Daniel O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@uleth.cawrote:
Hi all,
I'm on the executive council at Force11 (http://force11.org/). This is an organisation interested in the future of scientific publishing, and especially questions like Open Access business models and executable/Open Data.
A question that has come up recently there involves what we might broadly call incubator initiatives: i.e. initiatives that involve sharing best practice in, support for the development of, or other community building activities for scientific and scholarly publishing.
I know of a number of such initiatives in the Humanities and Social Sciences (e.g. Erudit, revues.org, some of the work at the MLA), but all of them are located in High Income Economies and they tend to operate with that context in mind. I've recently seen a number of lectures talking about differences in how Science is published in Mid and Low regions (particularly at Force11's great "Beyond the PDF 2" conference, recently held in Amsterdam).
Does anybody know of similar initiatives focused specifically on publication and dissemination issues in Mid and Low Income regions? Or focussing on geography rather than income, specifically in Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, China? I'm as interested in Scientific publishing and humanities, and within the Humanities both DH and outside that into more traditional fields.
I should say I'm speaking solely for myself here: our discussion at Force11 got me thinking.
I appreciate any tips people might be able to supply.
-dan
--
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+1 403 393-2539
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Thank you very much David and Marin!
-dan On 13-05-26 06:01 AM, David Golumbia wrote:
Hi Dan,
You may have this already, but just in case, as they are by no means well known enough: the JSTOR Developing Nations Access and African Access Initiatives both offer reduced-cost or free access to all or most of the JSTOR content to all academic and non-profit institutions in the 80 countries in the lower tier of World Bank economic ratings and in all of Africa (they are two separate initiatives and these criteria overlap significantly):
http://about.jstor.org/libraries/developing-nations-access-initiative http://about.jstor.org/libraries/african-access-initiative
There are also a variety of programs to make the archives available to other groups and individuals.
(I'm not affiliated in any way with JSTOR, but given the intense media attention JSTOR has received, it's a topic I've spent some time investigating.)
David
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca mailto:daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca> wrote:
Hi all, I'm on the executive council at Force11 (http://force11.org/). This is an organisation interested in the future of scientific publishing, and especially questions like Open Access business models and executable/Open Data. A question that has come up recently there involves what we might broadly call incubator initiatives: i.e. initiatives that involve sharing best practice in, support for the development of, or other community building activities for scientific and scholarly publishing. I know of a number of such initiatives in the Humanities and Social Sciences (e.g. Erudit, revues.org <http://revues.org>, some of the work at the MLA), but all of them are located in High Income Economies and they tend to operate with that context in mind. I've recently seen a number of lectures talking about differences in how Science is published in Mid and Low regions (particularly at Force11's great "Beyond the PDF 2" conference, recently held in Amsterdam). Does anybody know of similar initiatives focused specifically on publication and dissemination issues in Mid and Low Income regions? Or focussing on geography rather than income, specifically in Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, China? I'm as interested in Scientific publishing and humanities, and within the Humanities both DH and outside that into more traditional fields. I should say I'm speaking solely for myself here: our discussion at Force11 got me thinking. I appreciate any tips people might be able to supply. -dan -- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada +1 403 393-2539 <tel:%2B1%20403%20393-2539> _______________________________________________ globaloutlookdh-l mailing list globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca <mailto:globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca> http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l You are currently subscribed to this list in NON-digest mode. This means you receive every message as it is posted. If this represents too much traffic, you can also subscribe in DIGEST mode. This sends out a single email once a day containing the entire day's postings. To change your settings go to http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/options/globaloutlookdh-l You can request a password reminder from this page if you have forgotten yours.-- David Golumbia dgolumbia@gmail.com mailto:dgolumbia@gmail.com
Hi Dan, I am forwarding an email sent today by SCIELO where they talk about the situation of OA in Latin America. The article mentions many of the key players of OA publishing in this region. And I agree with Marin for Latin America Scielo and RedALyC are the leading initiatives. And on FB I suggest LLAR (Lista Latinoamerican de Acceso Abierto y Repositorios). Hope this is useful. Best, Isabel
Nota de interés [cortesía de Andrea Sánchez]
● América Latina destaca como región líder en el acceso abierto de publicaciones científicas ● El paso siguiente es consolidar dicho avance a través de legislaciones nacionales ● Argentina y Perú avanzan en ese sentido ● Con la creación de SciELO en 1997, Brasil se colocó como el país líder de la región; sin embargo, aún no consolida una legislación nacional ● Por otra parte, las revistas de la región siguen siendo revistas con bajo Factor de Impacto, por lo que los investigadores de la región siguen prefiriendo publicar en el extranjero ● Otras redes regionales de acceso abierto son:CoLaBoRahttp://www.saber.ula.ve/colabora/ , RedCLARAhttp://www.redclara.net/y LA Referenciahttp://lareferencia.redclara.net/rfr/ -------------------------------------
Publicado en: http://www.scidev.net/es/latin-america-and-caribbean/opinions/radar-latinoam... Radar Latinoamericano: En la ola del acceso abierto
Carla Almeida
20 may 2013 | ES
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Latinoamérica avanza en la libre circulación de su producción científica, pero enfrenta retos estructurales y económicos, dice Carla Almeida.
Mientras que el debate sobre el libre accesohttp://www.scidev.net/en/science-communication/open-access/ a la producción científica enciende polémicas en el mundo desarrollado, con boicots a las grandes editoriales y acusaciones de publicaciones abiertas mal intencionadashttp://www.scidev.net/es/science-communication/science-publishing/features/revistas-cuestionables-enga-an-a-cient-ficos.html, América Latina registra avances importantes en este movimiento.
La consolidación de legislaciones nacionales sobre el tema se encuentra entre ellos. En esa línea, Perú, que ya estaba invirtiendo en colecciones digitales de tesishttp://www.rptd.edu.pe/, acaba de promulgar una ley que hace obligatoria la publicación de los resultados de todas las investigaciones científicas financiadas con recursos públicos en repositorios digitales de acceso abierto [1].
DE UN VISTAZO
* América Latina tiene varias iniciativas que promueven el libre acceso a la producción científica * Pese a ello, se trata de un sistema de publicación precario y con un factor de impacto bajo * La colaboración académica y el apoyo internacional pueden aumentar la circulación de conocimiento e impulsar la producción científica regional
La idea es crear en el país una red que agrupe todo el registro digital de la producción científica peruana —incluyendo artículos científicos, trabajos académicos y libros, entre otros— y que opere junto a otros repositorios regionales y mundiales.
Argentina, que tiene una importante participación en las iniciativas regionales de acceso abierto y cuenta con un sistema nacional de repositorios digitaleshttp://repositorios.mincyt.gob.ar/desde 2010, está próxima a consolidar su legislación sobre el tema. Un proyecto de ley similar al peruano obtuvo, en mayo de 2012, la aprobación de la Cámara de Diputados del paíshttp://www.scidev.net/es/science-communication/open-access/news/argentina-avanza-hacia-una-ley-de-acceso-abierto.html.
Además del acceso gratuito a la producción científica argentina, el documento prevé el acceso abierto a los datos brutos, dando un paso hacia un movimiento aún incipiente en América Latina. Pero, para convertirse en ley, el proyecto todavía necesita la aprobación definitiva del Senado [2].
Pese a que Brasil lidera el movimiento en la región —creó el Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) en 1997 y fue el primero en elaborar, en 2007, un proyecto de ley que prevé el registro y la libre difusión de la producción científica nacional—no ha logrado consolidar su marco legal de acceso abierto. Con un contenido similar a la legislación peruana, la propuesta está pendiente en el Congreso.
Revistas nacionales por internacionales
Como bloque, América Latina viene haciendo esfuerzos para ampliar sus portales regionales de revistas, que comenzaron a surgir en la década de 1980 y hoy son la principal vía de acceso a la producción científica latinoamericana.
Entre ellos destaca el ya mencionado SciELOhttp://www.scidev.net/en/editorials/thumbs-up-for-electronic-publication.html, que actualmente cuenta con 11 países miembros, 1.056 periódicos registrados, 430.244 artículos y 9.373.937 citaciones.
A diferencia de lo que ocurre en el mundo desarrollado, las revistas electrónicas de acceso abierto son la regla en América Latina, donde el mercado de las editoriales comerciales prácticamente no existe en el mundo académico. Si, por un lado, existe la ventaja obvia de la libre circulación del conocimiento, por el otro, el efecto práctico es un sistema de publicación generalmente precario.
Creadas muchas veces en el ámbito universitario, las revistas suelen tener, cada una, sus propias reglas, y sus editores son, en general, investigadores no capacitados ni remunerados para ejercer funciones que acumulan con otras tareas. Muchos tienen dificultades para formar un equipo editorial eficiente y mantener la periodicidad propuesta.
De esa forma, no es extraño que, en comparación con las revistas internacionales mantenidas por editoriales comerciales —que han conseguido beneficios excesivos en ese mercado, generando indignación en la comunidad científica internacional— y siguiendo criterios de calidad impuestos por los países desarrollados, las revistas nacionales tengan un factor de impacto en general muy inferior a sus similares extranjeras.
En un contexto mundial caracterizado por una gran presión para que los científicos publiquen mucho en revistas de alto impacto, tampoco es de extrañar que los mejores investigadores de los países emergentes busquen a las revistas internacionales a la hora de publicar sus trabajos.
Nuevas redes y desafíos
América Latina también actúa en la formación de redes regionales de libre acceso. Además de las ya establecidas CoLaBoRahttp://www.saber.ula.ve/colabora/ y RedCLARAhttp://www.redclara.net/, este año se inicia la implementación de la Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicashttp://www.scidev.net/es/science-communication/open-access/news/red-impulsa-visibilidad-de-ciencia-latinoamericana-1.html (LA Referencia ), por medio de la cual es posible explorar documentos científicos de los países miembros y obtener estadísticas sobre el acceso y el uso de elementos registrados.
El objetivo de la red, que ya cuenta con la participación de nueve países, es almacenar, compartir, dar visibilidad y acceso abierto a la producción científica en América Latina. Según sus creadores, será el principal portal de articulación de la región con la producción científica mundial.
Para eso será preciso un esfuerzo conjunto de creación de repositorios institucionales en cada país, respaldado por políticas nacionales dirigidas, recursos expresivos y apoyo técnico adecuado, además del necesario establecimiento de padrones acordados entre los miembros.
Nada de esto es trivial para un bloque tan grande y diverso, con producción científica irregular y un sistema de publicación frágil, y que aún convive con la exclusión digital de una porción significativa de la población. Es importante reconocer que, incluso con tantos esfuerzos y avances, hay muchos desafíos para que el acceso abierto a haga realidad en América Latina.
Además de la voluntad política y la capacidad técnica, la tarea requerirá de la participación de la comunidad académica, que deberá ver su contribución para las revistas nacionales como una forma de mejorarlos y para los repositorios digitales como un modo de promover una mayor difusión y visibilidad de su trabajo y de la ciencia latinoamericana en general. Cooperación y apoyo internacional también son bienvenidoshttp://www.scidev.net/es/latin-america-and-caribbean/news/unesco-compromete-apoyo-a-iniciativas-de-acceso-abierto-.html.
No hay duda de que la mayor circulación de conocimientos científicos ayudará a impulsar la producción de la región, con un impacto positivo en sus revistas, y el desarrollo de nuevos indicadores de calidad y criterios de evaluación académica, que deberán tener en cuenta los diferentes contextos y necesidades de América Latina. Por todo eso, vale la pena el esfuerzo.
[Carla Almeida]
Carla Almeida es periodista científica brasileña y ha colaborado con SciDev.Net desde 2005. Actualmente es editora de Ciência Hoje en líneahttp://www.cienciahoje.org.br/, un sitio web de comunicación de la ciencia, y hace investigaciones en el área de la comprensión pública de la ciencia.
________________________________ De: globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca [globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca] en nombre de Daniel O'Donnell [daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca] Enviado: domingo, 26 de mayo de 2013 09:31 a.m. Para: David Golumbia CC: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community Asunto: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Scholar and Scientific publication in Mid and Low Income economies
Thank you very much David and Marin!
-dan On 13-05-26 06:01 AM, David Golumbia wrote: Hi Dan,
You may have this already, but just in case, as they are by no means well known enough: the JSTOR Developing Nations Access and African Access Initiatives both offer reduced-cost or free access to all or most of the JSTOR content to all academic and non-profit institutions in the 80 countries in the lower tier of World Bank economic ratings and in all of Africa (they are two separate initiatives and these criteria overlap significantly):
http://about.jstor.org/libraries/developing-nations-access-initiative http://about.jstor.org/libraries/african-access-initiative
There are also a variety of programs to make the archives available to other groups and individuals.
(I'm not affiliated in any way with JSTOR, but given the intense media attention JSTOR has received, it's a topic I've spent some time investigating.)
David
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@uleth.camailto:daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca> wrote: Hi all,
I'm on the executive council at Force11 (http://force11.org/). This is an organisation interested in the future of scientific publishing, and especially questions like Open Access business models and executable/Open Data.
A question that has come up recently there involves what we might broadly call incubator initiatives: i.e. initiatives that involve sharing best practice in, support for the development of, or other community building activities for scientific and scholarly publishing.
I know of a number of such initiatives in the Humanities and Social Sciences (e.g. Erudit, revues.orghttp://revues.org, some of the work at the MLA), but all of them are located in High Income Economies and they tend to operate with that context in mind. I've recently seen a number of lectures talking about differences in how Science is published in Mid and Low regions (particularly at Force11's great "Beyond the PDF 2" conference, recently held in Amsterdam).
Does anybody know of similar initiatives focused specifically on publication and dissemination issues in Mid and Low Income regions? Or focussing on geography rather than income, specifically in Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, China? I'm as interested in Scientific publishing and humanities, and within the Humanities both DH and outside that into more traditional fields.
I should say I'm speaking solely for myself here: our discussion at Force11 got me thinking.
I appreciate any tips people might be able to supply.
-dan
-- --- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Professor of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada
+1 403 393-2539tel:%2B1%20403%20393-2539
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In Mexico Copit ArXives is also doing pioneering work publishing OA monographs:
http://scifunam.fisica.unam.mx/mir/copit/
Ernesto
2013/5/27 igalina igalina@unam.mx
Hi Dan, I am forwarding an email sent today by SCIELO where they talk about the situation of OA in Latin America. The article mentions many of the key players of OA publishing in this region. And I agree with Marin for Latin America Scielo and RedALyC are the leading initiatives. And on FB I suggest LLAR (Lista Latinoamerican de Acceso Abierto y Repositorios). Hope this is useful. Best, Isabel
*Nota de interés*
*[cortesía de Andrea Sánchez]*
● América Latina destaca como región líder en el acceso abierto de publicaciones científicas
● El paso siguiente es consolidar dicho avance a través de legislaciones nacionales
● Argentina y Perú avanzan en ese sentido
● Con la creación de SciELO en 1997, Brasil se colocó como el país líder de la región; sin embargo, aún no consolida una legislación nacional
● Por otra parte, las revistas de la región siguen siendo revistas con bajo Factor de Impacto, por lo que los investigadores de la región siguen prefiriendo publicar en el extranjero
● Otras redes regionales de acceso abierto son:CoLaBoRahttp://www.saber.ula.ve/colabora/ , RedCLARA http://www.redclara.net/y LA Referenciahttp://lareferencia.redclara.net/rfr/
Publicado en:
http://www.scidev.net/es/latin-america-and-caribbean/opinions/radar-latinoam... Radar Latinoamericano: En la ola del acceso abierto
Carla Almeida
20 may 2013 | ES
*Latinoamérica avanza en la libre circulación de su producción científica, pero enfrenta retos estructurales y económicos, dice Carla Almeida.
Mientras que el debate sobre el libre accesohttp://www.scidev.net/en/science-communication/open-access/ a la producción científica enciende polémicas en el mundo desarrollado, con boicots a las grandes editoriales y acusaciones de publicaciones abiertas mal intencionadashttp://www.scidev.net/es/science-communication/science-publishing/features/revistas-cuestionables-enga-an-a-cient-ficos.html, América Latina registra avances importantes en este movimiento.
La consolidación de legislaciones nacionales sobre el tema se encuentra entre ellos. En esa línea, Perú, que ya estaba invirtiendo en colecciones digitales de tesis http://www.rptd.edu.pe/, acaba de promulgar una ley que hace obligatoria la publicación de los resultados de todas las investigaciones científicas financiadas con recursos públicos en repositorios digitales de acceso abierto [1]. DE UN VISTAZO
- América Latina tiene varias iniciativas que promueven el libre
acceso a la producción científica
- Pese a ello, se trata de un sistema de publicación precario y con un
factor de impacto bajo
- La colaboración académica y el apoyo internacional pueden aumentar
la circulación de conocimiento e impulsar la producción científica regional
La idea es crear en el país una red que agrupe todo el registro digital de la producción científica peruana —incluyendo artículos científicos, trabajos académicos y libros, entre otros— y que opere junto a otros repositorios regionales y mundiales.
Argentina, que tiene una importante participación en las iniciativas regionales de acceso abierto y cuenta con un sistema nacional de repositorios digitales http://repositorios.mincyt.gob.ar/desde 2010, está próxima a consolidar su legislación sobre el tema. Un proyecto de ley similar al peruano obtuvo, en mayo de 2012, la aprobación de la Cámara de Diputados del paíshttp://www.scidev.net/es/science-communication/open-access/news/argentina-avanza-hacia-una-ley-de-acceso-abierto.html .
Además del acceso gratuito a la producción científica argentina, el documento prevé el acceso abierto a los datos brutos, dando un paso hacia un movimiento aún incipiente en América Latina. Pero, para convertirse en ley, el proyecto todavía necesita la aprobación definitiva del Senado [2].
Pese a que Brasil lidera el movimiento en la región —creó el *Scientific Electronic Library Online *(SciELO) en 1997 y fue el primero en elaborar, en 2007, un proyecto de ley que prevé el registro y la libre difusión de la producción científica nacional—no ha logrado consolidar su marco legal de acceso abierto. Con un contenido similar a la legislación peruana, la propuesta está pendiente en el Congreso.
*Revistas nacionales por internacionales
Como bloque, América Latina viene haciendo esfuerzos para ampliar sus portales regionales de revistas, que comenzaron a surgir en la década de 1980 y hoy son la principal vía de acceso a la producción científica latinoamericana.
Entre ellos destaca el ya mencionado SciELOhttp://www.scidev.net/en/editorials/thumbs-up-for-electronic-publication.html, que actualmente cuenta con 11 países miembros, 1.056 periódicos registrados, 430.244 artículos y 9.373.937 citaciones.
A diferencia de lo que ocurre en el mundo desarrollado, las revistas electrónicas de acceso abierto son la regla en América Latina, donde el mercado de las editoriales comerciales prácticamente no existe en el mundo académico. Si, por un lado, existe la ventaja obvia de la libre circulación del conocimiento, por el otro, el efecto práctico es un sistema de publicación generalmente precario.
Creadas muchas veces en el ámbito universitario, las revistas suelen tener, cada una, sus propias reglas, y sus editores son, en general, investigadores no capacitados ni remunerados para ejercer funciones que acumulan con otras tareas. Muchos tienen dificultades para formar un equipo editorial eficiente y mantener la periodicidad propuesta.
De esa forma, no es extraño que, en comparación con las revistas internacionales mantenidas por editoriales comerciales —que han conseguido beneficios excesivos en ese mercado, generando indignación en la comunidad científica internacional— y siguiendo criterios de calidad impuestos por los países desarrollados, las revistas nacionales tengan un factor de impacto en general muy inferior a sus similares extranjeras.
En un contexto mundial caracterizado por una gran presión para que los científicos publiquen mucho en revistas de alto impacto, tampoco es de extrañar que los mejores investigadores de los países emergentes busquen a las revistas internacionales a la hora de publicar sus trabajos.
*Nuevas redes y desafíos
América Latina también actúa en la formación de redes regionales de libre acceso. Además de las ya establecidas CoLaBoRahttp://www.saber.ula.ve/colabora/ y RedCLARA http://www.redclara.net/, este año se inicia la implementación de la Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicashttp://www.scidev.net/es/science-communication/open-access/news/red-impulsa-visibilidad-de-ciencia-latinoamericana-1.html (LA Referencia ), por medio de la cual es posible explorar documentos científicos de los países miembros y obtener estadísticas sobre el acceso y el uso de elementos registrados.
El objetivo de la red, que ya cuenta con la participación de nueve países, es almacenar, compartir, dar visibilidad y acceso abierto a la producción científica en América Latina. Según sus creadores, será el principal portal de articulación de la región con la producción científica mundial.
Para eso será preciso un esfuerzo conjunto de creación de repositorios institucionales en cada país, respaldado por políticas nacionales dirigidas, recursos expresivos y apoyo técnico adecuado, además del necesario establecimiento de padrones acordados entre los miembros.
Nada de esto es trivial para un bloque tan grande y diverso, con producción científica irregular y un sistema de publicación frágil, y que aún convive con la exclusión digital de una porción significativa de la población. Es importante reconocer que, incluso con tantos esfuerzos y avances, hay muchos desafíos para que el acceso abierto a haga realidad en América Latina.
Además de la voluntad política y la capacidad técnica, la tarea requerirá de la participación de la comunidad académica, que deberá ver su contribución para las revistas nacionales como una forma de mejorarlos y para los repositorios digitales como un modo de promover una mayor difusión y visibilidad de su trabajo y de la ciencia latinoamericana en general. Cooperación y apoyo internacional también son bienvenidoshttp://www.scidev.net/es/latin-america-and-caribbean/news/unesco-compromete-apoyo-a-iniciativas-de-acceso-abierto-.html .
No hay duda de que la mayor circulación de conocimientos científicos ayudará a impulsar la producción de la región, con un impacto positivo en sus revistas, y el desarrollo de nuevos indicadores de calidad y criterios de evaluación académica, que deberán tener en cuenta los diferentes contextos y necesidades de América Latina. Por todo eso, vale la pena el esfuerzo.
[image: Carla Almeida]
*Carla Almeida es periodista científica brasileña y ha colaborado con * SciDev.Net* desde 2005. Actualmente es editora de* Ciência Hoje en líneahttp://www.cienciahoje.org.br/ *, un sitio web de comunicación de la ciencia, y hace investigaciones en el área de la comprensión pública de la ciencia.*
*De:* globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca [ globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca] en nombre de Daniel O'Donnell [ daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca] *Enviado:* domingo, 26 de mayo de 2013 09:31 a.m. *Para:* David Golumbia *CC:* A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community *Asunto:* Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Scholar and Scientific publication in Mid and Low Income economies
Thank you very much David and Marin!
-dan On 13-05-26 06:01 AM, David Golumbia wrote:
Hi Dan,
You may have this already, but just in case, as they are by no means well known enough: the JSTOR Developing Nations Access and African Access Initiatives both offer reduced-cost or free access to all or most of the JSTOR content to all academic and non-profit institutions in the 80 countries in the lower tier of World Bank economic ratings and in all of Africa (they are two separate initiatives and these criteria overlap significantly):
http://about.jstor.org/libraries/developing-nations-access-initiative http://about.jstor.org/libraries/african-access-initiative
There are also a variety of programs to make the archives available to other groups and individuals.
(I'm not affiliated in any way with JSTOR, but given the intense media attention JSTOR has received, it's a topic I've spent some time investigating.)
David
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Daniel O'Donnell < daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca> wrote:
Hi all,
I'm on the executive council at Force11 (http://force11.org/). This is an organisation interested in the future of scientific publishing, and especially questions like Open Access business models and executable/Open Data.
A question that has come up recently there involves what we might broadly call incubator initiatives: i.e. initiatives that involve sharing best practice in, support for the development of, or other community building activities for scientific and scholarly publishing.
I know of a number of such initiatives in the Humanities and Social Sciences (e.g. Erudit, revues.org, some of the work at the MLA), but all of them are located in High Income Economies and they tend to operate with that context in mind. I've recently seen a number of lectures talking about differences in how Science is published in Mid and Low regions (particularly at Force11's great "Beyond the PDF 2" conference, recently held in Amsterdam).
Does anybody know of similar initiatives focused specifically on publication and dissemination issues in Mid and Low Income regions? Or focussing on geography rather than income, specifically in Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, China? I'm as interested in Scientific publishing and humanities, and within the Humanities both DH and outside that into more traditional fields.
I should say I'm speaking solely for myself here: our discussion at Force11 got me thinking.
I appreciate any tips people might be able to supply.
-dan
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For sharing resources and building capacity for internet access in places where it’s not available, too slow, and/or too expensive, the eGranary Digital Library program is a great, large-scale model that does the work to share resources and demonstrates a model for doing this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGranary_Digital_Library The sharing system/network established by eGranary could present an opportunity to build on the network for distribution of locally created resources with the rest of the world.
Much of the world, including many universities in the US, are still working to get to PDF for a digital-first publication for masters theses and similar scholarly works. These are often created digitally and then printed for library holding/support/access purposes. While an example like masters theses would not be beyond the PDF, getting to the PDF would be of great value and benefit, and it’s a need shared for so many institutions across the world and for all fields in sciences, humanities, etc.
Laurie
From: globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca [mailto:globaloutlookdh-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of David Golumbia Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 8:02 AM To: Daniel O'Donnell; A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community Subject: Re: [globaloutlookDH-l] Scholar and Scientific publication in Mid and Low Income economies
Hi Dan,
You may have this already, but just in case, as they are by no means well known enough: the JSTOR Developing Nations Access and African Access Initiatives both offer reduced-cost or free access to all or most of the JSTOR content to all academic and non-profit institutions in the 80 countries in the lower tier of World Bank economic ratings and in all of Africa (they are two separate initiatives and these criteria overlap significantly): http://about.jstor.org/libraries/developing-nations-access-initiative http://about.jstor.org/libraries/african-access-initiative There are also a variety of programs to make the archives available to other groups and individuals. (I'm not affiliated in any way with JSTOR, but given the intense media attention JSTOR has received, it's a topic I've spent some time investigating.)
David
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@uleth.camailto:daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca> wrote: Hi all,
I'm on the executive council at Force11 (http://force11.org/). This is an organisation interested in the future of scientific publishing, and especially questions like Open Access business models and executable/Open Data.
A question that has come up recently there involves what we might broadly call incubator initiatives: i.e. initiatives that involve sharing best practice in, support for the development of, or other community building activities for scientific and scholarly publishing.
I know of a number of such initiatives in the Humanities and Social Sciences (e.g. Erudit, revues.orghttp://revues.org, some of the work at the MLA), but all of them are located in High Income Economies and they tend to operate with that context in mind. I've recently seen a number of lectures talking about differences in how Science is published in Mid and Low regions (particularly at Force11's great "Beyond the PDF 2" conference, recently held in Amsterdam).
Does anybody know of similar initiatives focused specifically on publication and dissemination issues in Mid and Low Income regions? Or focussing on geography rather than income, specifically in Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, China? I'm as interested in Scientific publishing and humanities, and within the Humanities both DH and outside that into more traditional fields.
I should say I'm speaking solely for myself here: our discussion at Force11 got me thinking.
I appreciate any tips people might be able to supply.
-dan
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