Open Access in Lateinamerika

From Google's English:  Abstract:  Open Access (OA) in Latin America is considered an international model. This paper uses a qualitative content analysis to examine the anchoring of OA policies in five countries: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. The focus is on definitions, motives and measures for OA as well as the associated challenges. The aim is to show the breadth of OA in the region. The countries examined base their OA on the definition of the Budapest and Berlin Declarations. The motives focus on social benefit. Scientific knowledge is seen as a public good and access to it as an obligation and a legal duty of the state. The spectrum of OA measures is broad. At the national level, the focus is on green OA. With the exception of Chile, all countries have national repository systems. Chile, Argentina and Peru have a secondary publication obligation. Mexico and Colombia provide for the mandatory granting of usage rights. Gold OA is not promoted to the same extent. The regional OA infrastructures, on the other hand, are only sporadically part of national OA policies.