« Latin America has historically led a firm and rising Open Access movement and represents the worldwide region with larger adoption of Open Access practices. Argentina has recently expressed its commitment to join Plan S, an initiative from a European consortium of research funders oriented to mandate Open Access publishing of…
« The Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW) brings together top researchers from all over the world, creating the opportunity to discuss and spread research results relating to data management (in sub-areas including, but not limited to, databases, web, knowledge representation, data mining, information retrieval). AMW is…
« This document, prepared by LA Referencia, characterizes the current regional situation regarding open access, reflects on « Plan S », and gives a series of recommendations to guide decision makers. (…) »
« L’entretien accordé par Dominique Babini, le 5 février 2019, à Lizzie Sayer pour l’International Science Council (ISC) a été traduit en français. Il porte essentiellement sur les réactions des communautés de recherche latino-américaines face au Plan S. Dominique Babini fait également un point sur les réalisations…
« Open Science is often presented as the overarching “umbrella” of Open Access and Open Data, amongst others. In this article, we start from the finding that, for many years, Open Access to knowledge and research has been a generally accepted principle in Latin America. The Open Access movement in Latin…
« The goal of the 2018 Latin American Workshop on Data Science (LADaS 2018) is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences, and work-in-progress on all aspects of Data Science. »
« The objective of this study is to investigate how Open Science (OS) values and practices have influenced open access (OA) journals publishers in Latin American and the Caribbean (LA&C) countries. Our key research question is: to what extent are these practices being adopted by LA&C journals? In order to address…
« In November 2017, the SciELO Program launched the new online interface for the operation of the national and thematic collections of the SciELO Network, starting with the Public Health thematic collection <www.scielosp.org>. As it is approved according to efficiency and quality indicators, new collections will start using…
« Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. August 31st and September 1st, 2017
The participants of this First Consortium Assembly from Ibero-America and Caribbean countries, after two days of work state that:
In Latin America, the publications have always been Open Accessed under a “free” model – that subsists with the financial encouragement…
« The SciELO Program is setting in motion a basic plan for the development and operation of a preprints server – SciELO Preprints.
The main objective is to contribute to speeding up the availability of research results and to position the scholarly communications from the countries that participate in the SciELO…
