La difusión de la ciencia permitirá una sociedad del conocimiento

peter.suber's bookmarks 2014-04-13

Summary:

From Google's English:  "Unanimously, with 431 votes, the House of Representatives passed the bill amending and supplementing a number of provisions of the Laws of Science and Technology, General Education, and Organic National Council for Science and Technology, whose main objective is to promote Free and open access to information of scientific, educational, technological and innovative character access. reform establishes a legal framework and the basis for a policy of dissemination of scientific knowledge and, with the support of technology platforms available in the general population. When justifying the opinion, Rep. Ruben Felix Benjamin Hays (New Covenant), chairman of the Committee on Science and Technology, said that access to information is of paramount importance in the so-called knowledge economy. "Data scientists bring new ideas and heighten the inventiveness of the people. If we accept that scientific knowledge and technological innovation are critical to improving the quality of life of the people, then we understand that the diffusion and dissemination of science is that to allow to create a knowledge society to boost the country's development, "he said. explained that among other important aspects, the reform empowers the Conacyt to design and implement a strategy that aims to democratize scientific information; also creates and establishes the basis for operation of a national open access repository. Gives researchers, technologists, academics and graduate students whose research are publicly funded or have used public infrastructure in their implementation, the ability to deposit a copy of the paper for publication in open access through the national repository. sets as a concurrent allocation of educational, federal and local authorities promoting open access to scientific, technological and innovation research access, where these have been publicly funded, subject to intellectual property rights. also empowers the Conacyt to promote and strengthen the repositories, and to issue appropriate guidelines for operation and coordination. By fixing the position of its parliamentary group, Lucila Garfias Gutiérrez (NA) stressed that it is imperative to democratize information of scientific texts that are generated daily. According to official data, he added, in Mexico in 2009 he published 488 scientific articles 9000, which placed the country on the 22nd of scientific production between member countries of the OECD."

Link:

http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldemexico/notas/n3351927.htm

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Tags:

oa.new oa.mexico oa.legislation oa.unanimity oa.mandates oa.spanish oa.policies oa.latin_america oa.south

Date tagged:

04/13/2014, 11:58

Date published:

04/13/2014, 07:58