« (…) The Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM) awarded $3.6 Million grant from Arcadia – a charitable of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – for Redalyc and AmeliCA. The project’s purpose is to strengthen and expand the current efforts of these two initiatives on non-commercial Open Access through…
« FOR A REGIONAL OPEN SCIENCE ECOSYSTEM: AN ALLIANCE OF THE GREEN AND THE DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS
They collaborate to generate regional public goods that maximize the open access visibility of regional, technical and scientific output that facilitates the availability of scientific output published in Diamond Open Access scientific journals in…
« This document is largely based on the presentations and discussions during virtual dialogues on Open Science organised by the EU-LAC Foundation and OBREAL Global together with partners from…
« The positioning of the SciELO Program as an open science program, provided for the creation of a preprints’ server, announced in 2017. In September 2018, during the SciELO 20 Years Week, the partnership between SciELO and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) was launched with…
« Pour répondre aux défis que nous réserve le siècle à venir, des pandémies au changement climatique en passant par l’automatisation et le big data, la science doit s’ouvrir à tous. Les citoyens doivent avoir le même accès aux informations que les chercheurs, et les scientifiques pouvoir accéder à des bases…
« Today, LA Referencia, RedCLARA and the three African regional research and education networks – ASREN, WACREN and UbuntuNet Alliance – signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalize their relationship as the two continents seek to ramp up their open science activities. The aim of the collaboration is to advance…
« The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), an academic network created in 1967 and today gathering 680 research centers in 51 countries, is inviting the scientific community to share views on principles and recommendations for research evaluation, recently drafted by the Latin…
« Redalyc (Autonomous University of the State of Mexico), AmeliCA and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) are delighted to announce a collaboration focussed on increasing DOAJ’s coverage of Latin American non-APC Open Access journals and to broaden the implementation of AmeliCA’s and Redalyc’s advanced technologies that make journal publishing more…
« LYRASIS, an innovative full-service technology and services nonprofit that is home to ten community supported open source programs, and LA Referencia, the network of open access repositories from ten Latin American countries, are pleased to announce the creation of a new partnership to advance and promote open source communities in…
« Open access is often discussed as a process of flipping the existing closed subscription based model of scholarly communication to an open one. However, in Latin America an open access ecosystem for scholarly publishing has been in place for over a decade. In this post, Eduardo Aguado-López and Arianna Becerril-Garcia discuss open access…
