Buenas prácticas universitarias para comunicaciones científicas abiertas Un desafío para América Latina

Editor's Notes

1. Metrics of total publications and citations in 2002 according to Thomson’s ISI Top 15 countries account for 82% of total publications Author with African institutional affiliation account for less than 1% of global output, and S. Africa has the highest output. The rest are “invisible” Consequence of trying to publish in “International” journal results in neglect of important local problems and solutions that are appropriate for local conditions. == Could Open Access begin to address the inequality in the global scientific system, with its structure of power based in the Global North and established criteria of “excellence” based on a set of narrowly defined metrics, particularly the Journal Impact Factor More important, could OA improve participation of researchers from around the world, given the democratizing power of network technologies and new forms of social production? And ultimately, could the new form of participation and inclusion of voices and knowledge lead to better understanding of some of the core development challenges that face humanities around the world – namely poverty, inequality, inequitable health, food insecurity, and increasingly problems associated with climate change. The new forms of social production, which Yochai Benkler called commons based peer production, is characteristic of a broad range of activities, from Open Source software development, to Open Educational Resources, Open Data (big data), Open government, Open business model etc., and more recently a broad approach to address the improvement of human well beings – that of Open Development.
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