Open access and scholarly publishing in Latin America
ten flavours and a few reflections
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https://doi.org/10.18617/liinc.v4i2.269Keywords:
Open Access, Latin America and the Caribbean, Information and Communication Technologies, Knowledge dissemination, Scholarly CommunicationAbstract
Throughout this article we argue that many scholars and scientific systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) share the ethical and epistemological motivations about the importance of increasing the "public presence" of academic research and lay out that many scholars and that many scholars and scientific systems in LAC are well positioned to take advantage of the increasing information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and of the growing open access (OA) movement so that the research produced within the region is circulated and shared broadly. The existence of Latin American examples to Willinsky's (2006) ten flavours of OA to journal articles are seen as an indication that OA has taken hold in the
region.
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