Open Access: Latin America shows us how

Presentation given at the Open Science Summit in Mountain View, October 19-20, 2012

Summary of open access in Latin America, and what it can teach the rest of the world.

Video of the presentation, starting at minute 24, on http://fora.tv/2012/10/19/Open_Access_Publishing_Future_of_Scientific_Peer_Review

Summit program: http://opensciencesummit.com/program/

Transcript

1. Open Access Latin America shows us how
3. some numbers pprox. 3000 peer-reviewed urnals 0-95% Latin American urnals are freely available
4. egional nitiatives
6. green road two national mandates (one in progress) 11 institutional mandates 15 countries signed on to project to support repositories
7. o be fair... owopenisit? nobody knows
8. some key differences ck of commercial interest early all research is ublicly funded rice of printing made
9. what OA means to LA vs US visibility mark of quality discourse: for research and for public cost quality questioned discourse: for the publi and to be efficient
10. elationship lmainstreamz vs lperipheralz science OR two lfieldsz of science
11. a way up mall and young institutions ave equal opportunity to rise rengthens higher education nd research culture
12. flow of knowledge system works better when ere are no impediments ampens effect of hierarchy institutions
13. shift in conversation ot just about giving access lhave-notsz is a also way to increase rengthen research culture
14. scholarship s networked o matter what you have ccess to... you are linked to eople who have less ccess
15. n LA`s all- OA system ... creased output creased co-authorships creased citations currently looking for ways measuring quality, impact
16. thank you