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Radical Open Access Conference -Latin America social sciences open access
experience and perspectiveDominique Babini, CLACSO
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in this presentation
• CLACSO- Latin American Council of Social Sciences experience with open access
• CLACSO´s vision of a non-commercial global open access ecosystem
• Latin America´s non-commercial open access tradition
• The risk of open access being integrated into existing commercial publishing
CLACSO – social sciences network
• since 1967• Membership: 382 social science institutions in 22 countries of
Latin America and Caribbean• Promotes and supports
– collaborative research: 2.000 researchers participating in CLACSO´s 50 regional research groups
– dialogue of research with policies and social movements– among former members of CLACSO: 20 ministers in the
region, Evo Morales/García Linera (president, vice-president Bolivia), F.Henrique Cardoso (former president Brazil), Ricardo Lagos (former president Chile), Danilo Astori (former vice-president Uruguay)
www.clacso.org
CLACSO´s journey of 15 years in open access
– Promotion of open access initiatives, debates and policies
– 400 journals published in CLACSO´s member institutes today, 70% are in OA
– cooperative social science digital repository 850.000 monthly downloads of full-texts
– editorial catalog: 1.535 books 99% in OA
CLACSO´s bookstore: books can be downloaded for free from the digital repository, and you can purchase print-on-demand version
CLACSO´s social science cooperative repository:
850.000 monthly full-text downloads
CLACSO´s social sciences digital repository contents: 38.000 full-texts in open accessMainly books+book chapters (44%) and articles (25% with Redalyc)
CLACSO´s vision of a global non-commercial open access
managed by the scholarly community
as a commons
No fees to read No fees to publish
secure basic open access (no fee for users, no fee for publishing)
• Research output in shared interoperable open access digital repositories – institutional– national– regional– international– thematic– journal repositories (70% journals do not
charge APC´s)
payed value-added services byrepositories,overlay journals, megajournals, epijournals, publishers, data portals, peer-review services, impact services, etc.
Latin American social sciences context
• links between social science research and policies in Latin America are strong
• research and publishing is mainly government-funded
• scholarly publishing not outsourced to commercial publishers
• open access managed by the scholarly community in local/regional venues with no APCs / BPCs:– Open access journal portals– Open access repositories
• Institutional• subject
http://redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc/article/viewFile/705/781
Where social sciences are publishedeg. : 414 full-time social science researchers CONICET
Argentina (period 2004-2008)
• Sociology: 83% articles are published in journals within the region, 90% of books published within the country
• Political science: 80% articles published in journals within the region, 84% of books published within the country
• Economics: 68% articles published in journals within the region, 82% of books published within the country
global/local tension in social science publishing and evaluation systems
local/regional conversations
Publishing in Spanish/Portuguese in local/regional journals+books Larger local/regional visibility
and access Reduced international visibility Negative impact on evaluation
International conversations
Publishing in English in international journals Reduced local/regional
visibility and access Larger international
visibility Rewarded when evaluated
Most used alternative: publish in local/regional journals with title/abstract /kewords in local + English languageHigh cost alternative: publish in both local/English language
social science open access publishing in Latin America
• open access journals– journal website + national portals + regional portals
• repositories (institutional + national + regional + subject)
Open access national policies mandate OA in repositories (national legislation approved in Peru, Argentina, Mexico; still in Congress in Brazil and Venzuela)
OA managed in Latin America by the scholarly community sharing costs, with no APC´s/BPC´s
now faces
trends of international open access being integrated into commercial
publishing
we have to make an ongoing series of decisions all of the time…
we have to think about who is being included and who is being excluded…….
….. what seems open to us today, we have to ask ourselves …will this seem open
tomorrow?
John WillinskyOpening Science to Meet Future Challenges, 11 March 2014, Warsaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jODzw_5q7EU
Dominique Babini – CLACSO, Open Access Program University of Buenos Aires/IIGG – Open Access research
Thank you!!!!
