Open Access Indicators and Scholarly Communications in Latin America

Alperin, Juan Pablo, Packer, Abel, Aguado-López, Eduardo, Becerril-García, Arianna, Babini, Dominique, Archuby, Gustavo, Carrizo, Valeria, García, Darío Alejandro, Higa, Sebastian and Spano, Diego . Open Access Indicators and Scholarly Communications in Latin America., 2014 CLACSO. [Book]

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English abstract

This book is the result of a joint research and development project supported by UNESCO and undertaken in 2013 by UNESCO in partnership with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), the Network of Scientific Journals of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (RedALyC), Africa Journals Online (AJOL), the Latin America Social Sciences SchoolBrazil (FLACSO-Brazil), and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). This book aims to contribute to the understanding of scholarly production, use and reach through measures that are open and inclusive. The present book is divided into two sections. The first section presents a narrative summary of Open Access in Latin America, including a description of the major regional initiatives that are collecting and systematizing data related to Open Access cholarship, and of available data that can be used to understand the (i) growth, (ii) reach, and (iii) impact of Open Access in developing regions. The first section ends with recommendations for future activities. The second section includes in-depth case-studies with the descriptions of indicators and methodologies of peer-review journal portals SciELO and Redalyc, and a case of subject digital repository maintained by CLACSO.

Item type:	Book
Keywords:	open access, scholarly communications, Latin America, SciELO, Redalyc, CLACSO, PKP, UNESCO, bibliometric indicators, scientometric indicators, evaluation indicators, research evaluation
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information
Depositing user:	Dra. Dominique Babini
Date deposited:	14 Aug 2015 01:49
Last modified:	16 Aug 2015 19:30
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/25122

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