Gaps and challenges to the Open Access of information: CLACSO´s experience

NGO UNESCO Liaison Committee 2016 International Conference of Non-Governmental

Organizations (NGOs)

Pablo Vommaro (PhD)(CLACSO-UBA)Latin American Council of Social Sciences

The Open Access and Dissemination of Knowledge is a decentralized collaborative and digital action which promotes new ways of dissemination and distribution of social knowledge by promoting open access to research findings and debates in the field of the social sciences.CLACSO also promotes new forms of disseminating knowledge produced by social researchers, in order to reach more audiences and enrich the debate and public opinion in our society.

http://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana/inicio.php

http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/

More than 80.000 full text in open access

OPEN ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE CAMPAIGN

CLACSO promotes a model of open access to knowledge as a human right

which is managed as a common good, and based on solidarity,

inclusiveness, and non-commercial access, and defends this position in

the international arena where commercial and non-commercial

alternatives are constantly debated, in order to achieve a renewal in

scientific and scholarly communications, and society in general.The CLACSO Virtual Library has more than 80,000 open access documents and 1,000,000 average monthly downloads. It is one of the largest Virtual Libraries in the field of the social sciences in the world.

CLACSO publications can be downloaded in open access or be purchased in hard copy at the Latin American and Caribbean Library of Social Sciences, with deliveries worldwide.

Regional inequalities in open access information: international indexes’ sample

World scaled by number of documents in Web of Science by Authors Living There Juan Pablo Alperín (2014, LSE Impact Blog)...

From a total of 5.879 quality journals from Latin America (Latindex)16 % in Scopus (841 Journals) and 5 % in WoS (294 journals)

Regional Open Access declaration (2005)Salvador de Bahía Declaration on Open Access: The Developing

World Perspective (promoted by SciELO)

We urge governments to make Open Access a high priority in science policies including:•requiring that publicly funded research is made available through Open Access;•considering the cost of publication as part of the cost of research;•strengthening the local OA journals, repositories and other relevant initiatives;•promoting integration of developing countries scientific information in the worldwide body of knowledge.We call on all stakeholders in the international community to work together to ensure that scientific information is openly accessible and freely available to all

http://www.icml9.org/meetings/openaccess/public/documents/declaration.htm

CLACSO´s Declaration on open access to knowledge managed as a commons by the scholarly community

Principles: 1. Provide open access to publicly funded research results, both texts and data (open access and open data). 2. Promote and fund projects and working groups aimed at improving the quality of scholarly editorial processes; as peer-review and internationalization (e.g.: publication in local language and in English when research is of international interest) in the contents of open access digital repositories, publishing platforms and journals. 3. Encourage editors of scholarly journals to retain control, experience and knowledge of the editorial processes and its products, regardless of the platforms of visibility and indexing with which they share metadata and content4. Ensure that open access repositories, publishing platforms and publications are interoperable with national, regional and international systems and portals to achieve a multiplying effect on the visibility and access to research results by local, regional and international public. 5. When evaluating researchers and institutions, consider indicators provided by open access repositories, publishing platforms and publications, as well as other measures of impact and relevance in local and regional contexts, to complement traditional international bibliometric indicators that poorly reflect the production and impact of research from developing countries. 6. Support and promote worldwide access to knowledge as a human right, and its management as a commons by the scholarly community.7. Collaboratives actions with CODESRIA (Africa) and Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS)

االجتماعية للعلوم العربي المجلسhttp://goo.gl/cqx9bl

Other digital strategies to have visibility: opening access to social sciences, humanities and

information

| Open access to research results and debates

+ 4 million monthly downloads from CLACSO´s digital repositories and catalog + 2,500 hours of interviews and documentary films www.clacso.tv

Promotion in social networks: + 30,000 followers + 170,000 + 60,000 in CLACSO´s mailing

| Open access to its events

On line / Off line35.000 participants at its last triennial conference in Medellín, Colombia, Nov. 2015