Declaración de Sant Joan d’Alacant en defensa del Acceso Abierto a las publicaciones científicas, del grupo de editores de revistas españolas sobre ciencias de la salud (GERECS) | SciELO en Perspectiva

Google English: "Declaration of Sant Joan d'Alacant in defense of Open Access to scientific publications, from the group of editors of Spanish journals on health sciences (GERECS).

The concept of Open Access (OA) not only has to do with accessibility to the scientific document, but also with more or less restrictive reuse permits depending on the rights reserved for distribution. From this idea, numerous initiatives emerged, with or without profit, in order to facilitate universal access through the Internet to scientific publications.

Projects such as Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO, 1998), The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC, 1998), PubMed Central (PMC, 2000), The Public Library of Science (PLOS, 2000) or BioMed Central (BMC, 2001). ), were pioneers of a revolution that would rethink the commercial strategies of scientific publishing. Others such as Dialnet (2001), Network of Scientific Journals of Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (Redalyc, 2003) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ, 2003), would also extend the open access movement and help the process of globalization of knowledge in the scientific communities of the Ibero-American area...."