Argentinian Law No. 26.899 on Institutional Open Access Digital Repositories (2013)

On 13 November, the Argentinian Congress passed a law (No. 26.899, Institutional Open Access Digital Repositories) establishing that all institutions belonging to the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation (SNCTI) that receive public funds (partly or entirely) shall create free and open access institutional digital repositories where all the scientific and technological publications (which includes journal articles, technical and scientific papers, theses, etc.) and research data must be available.

In accordance with new law (Section 5, pp. 4-5), researchers, technologists, professors, postdoctoral fellows, graduate and PhD students whose research activity is financed by public funds, shall deposit or expressly authorise the submission of a copy of the final version of their scientific and technological production, published or accepted for publication, in the corresponding free and open access institutional digital repository within a period not exceeding six months. Primary research data should be deposited in the corresponding free and open access institutional digital repository within a period not exceeding five years from the date of collection. Primary research data is understood as "all raw data upon which any research is based and that may or may not be published when communicating a scientific breakthrough, but that are those that underlie a new knowledge".