This presentation by Guillermina Actis was part of OpenCon 2017's Regional Models for Open Research and Open Education panel. Guillermina's presentation introduced the regional landscape of science and technology (S&T) communication, focusing on the alternatives that have been built in the last decades to increase local knowledge production’s visibility through regional indexing systems and gold open access (SciELO and RedALyC). The high-level authorities’ efforts for promoting green open access policies and building its infrastructures will also be addressed by presenting the regional initiative established in 2012, LAReferencia, which is a federated network of nine countries that aims at establishing agreements and providing guidelines for the creation of repositories to provide open access to publicly funded research, addressing S&T production as a public good.

1. Regional Models for Open
Research and Education
11-13 November 2017 - Guillermina Actis

2. Data from http://www.ricyt.org/indicadores

3. Access
&
Visibility

4. 1998
“electronic publishing for developing countries”
full text publishing
preservation
indexing
usage and impact metrics
journals evaluation criteria (both for admission and
permanence
next step: preprints and linked open data
Network of national and thematic websites of the journals’
collections:
14 countries with collections (11 + 1 in development LatAm)
1280 active journals
52221 issues
743618 articles
16900877 citations
http://www.scielo.org

5. 2003
“science not seen doesn’t exist”
improve visibility of local journals not indexed by
international data bases.
improve journals quality by assessing their publishing
criteria
development of criteria for the admission and permanence
of journals in the portal
country and subject area metrics of production and usage
Scientific Committee to assess the quality of the journals’
content
Open Access without APC
Modernization of electronic publishing towards the content’s
interoperability
1257 journals
44514 issues
576204 articles
http://www.redalyc.org

6. 2012
“open access to publicly funded research results”
S&T high-level authorities political agreements for the
promotion of open access national policies
promotion of institutional repositories’ development
guidelines development for metadata harvesting
national institutions’ production visibility improved through
regional harvesting and validation portal
Federated network of open access repositories:
9 national nodes
1431703 documents
3 countries with national legislations (Peru, Mx and Arg) +
countries with national policies (Brasil, Chile, Colombia)
http://www.lareferencia.info/joomla/en/

7. Regional Challenges for
Openness
oInfrastructure development (both physical
and human)
oOpen Research Data
oEvaluation Systems for tenure and promotion
oMore collaboration between policy-makers
and researchers