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Open access to humanities –perspectives from the Global South
World Humanities Conference
CLACSO’s 50th Anniversary Symposium
Panel “The humanities and knowledge as a public good”
University of Liege, Belgium, 7-9 August 2017
CLACSO´s Open Access programs
Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
• Non-governmental international organization with UNESCO associate status
• 50 years (established in 1967)
• Brings together 616 social sciences and humanities associated institutions in 47 countries
• 110 Working Groups with 3,430 researchersfrom 57 countries
• Inter-regional cooperation activities in social sciences and humanities
CLACSO´s open access results
• CLACSO´s editorial catalog
– 2.500 books in open access
• CLACSO´s Digital Repository
– 100.000 social science and humanities full-texts in open access (one million downloads a month)
• CLACSO-REDALYC portal of social science and humanities peer-review journals from Iberoamerica
– 864 open access journals (364.000 articles), 4 million downloads average each month
• Incidence in open access policies and legislation
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/documentos/CLACSO_and_Open_Access_version_ingles.pdf
CLACSO´s open access campaign principles
Knowledge is a commons
Access to knowledge is a right
Knowledge produced with public funds must be publicly available
and freely accessiblehttp://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/documentos/CLACSO_and_Open_Access_version_ingles.pdf
Open access to research – benefits of publishing in open access journals and repositories (SPARC)
• Increases readers’ ability to find/use relevant literature
• Increases the visibility, readership and impact of author’s works
• Creates new avenues for discovery in digital environment
• Enhances interdisciplinary research• Accelerates the pace of research, discovery
and innovation
source SPARC www.sparc.arl.org/resources/open-access/why-oa
Predominant in anglosaxon countries
• Article processing charges (APC), subsidies and collective initiatives for open access journals
• book processing charges are the predominant form of current implementation for open-access books
full-text in www.martineve.com/images/uploads/2014
/11/Eve_2014_Open-Access-and-the-Humanities.pdf
• Article processing charges (APC), subsidies and collective initiatives for open access journals
• book processing charges are the predominant form of current implementation for open-access books
www.martineve.com/images/uploads/2014/11/Eve_2014_Open-Access-and-the-Humanities.pdf
Open access and humanities in the North
Open Access in the Global South
• Open access scholarly communications managed by scholarlycommunities
• No outsourcing to commercial publishers
• Costs covered with public funds for research and education
• Examples: Open access journals
Open access journal portals
Open access repositories Institutional
National
Regional
Subject repositories
Other publishing platforms
To search forOPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
JOLs
to search forOPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES
Directory of Open Access Repositories
What kind of contents can be found in repositories worlwide
Aligning Repository Networks: International Accord May 2017
CIRG-CAS-CHAIR JAIRO-JPCOA-DRF
Humanities in support of local and global sustainable development agendas
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
Contact InformationCLACSO- Estados Unidos 1168 C1101AAX Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, ArgentinaTelephone numbers: (54-11) 4304-9505/9332 | [email protected] | www.clacso.org
Thank you!!! Fernanda Saforcada, Academic Cooperation,
CLACSO
Questions about open access:Dominique Babini, Open Access Advisor at CLACSO