As member of the Latin American scholarly community, reading the recent…

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-08-11

Summary:

"As member of the Latin American scholarly community, reading the recent blogpost “Is SciELO a publication favela?” I found it offensive for one of the regions of the world where open access is more advanced, and managed by the scholarly community. Is it that journals from Latin America, which unlike Europe and North America have not been outsourced to commercial publishers, have significantly improved their quality with the help of Latindex, SciELO, Redalyc, the national collections of quality journals and the journal collections in digital repositories, and now those journals are attracting the attention of major international commercial publishers interested in offering their services to journals and governments in the region as we observe in several countries in Latin America?  Does it have relation to the interest of promoting  a new big business of "pay to publish" in a region that has no tradition of APC´s?  Is this moving so fast before governments realize that the scholarly community could go on managing open access scholarly communications without commercial intermediaries, based on networks of open access digital repositories that incorporate peer review, indicators for evaluation and other services needed for open science, open education and open access? ..."

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https://plus.google.com/112519487285412484806/posts/ewjKbPHhomP

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oa.new oa.comment oa.scielo oa.redalyc oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.latin_america oa.impact oa.bealls_list oa.south

Date tagged:

08/11/2015, 06:48

Date published:

08/11/2015, 02:47