Based on a survey and report on OA in Latin America and the Caribbean I have prepared this year for the  UNESCO-GOAP Global Open Access Portal, I would mention as 2011 promising OA strategies in our region, the following:  1) OA bill introduced in Congress in Argentina and  in Brazil (reintroduced), still in debate in both cases, requiring the creation of institutional repositories and mandating deposit of publicly funded research results; 2) consolidation of a model of gold OA journals at no cost for authors and for end users, supported by research funds as the previous printed version, and gathered in OA journal portals as SciELO (907 journals) and Redalyc (758 journals) that charge no costs to provide support and indicators for journal editors and funding agencies; and 3) a regional cooperation initiative among institutional repositories that now requires, for countries who want to participate, the creation of national institutional repositories systems, thus promoting networking, coordination and interoperability at national level.
Dominique Dominique Babini Institutional repository Latin America Social Science Council - CLACSO [email protected] Skype:Â dominique.babini Estados Unidos 1168 (C1101AAX) Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel.: (54-11) 4304-9145/9505Â interno 2800Â Â Fax: (54-11) 4305-0875 www.clacso.edu.ar 2011/12/15 Richard Poynder <[email protected]> The migration from AmSci to GOALis now complete, and appears to have been successful, so many thanks to Stevan for overseeing the transition. Now is surely also a good moment to thank Stevan for moderating AmSci with such energy for the past thirteen years, and indeed for his constant and assiduous advocacy for OA in general. I fully concur with Tony Heyâs comment of yesterday: âI think that Stevan must take some credit from the UK Government's decision to insist on open access to publications and data ... Well done Stevan and thanks for all your tireless proselytizing on behalf of open access!â Meanwhile, with the end of the year fast approaching, what better time to look back at the last twelve months, and forward to the next.As list members will know, GOAL is intended to be a Forum devoted to practical policies and strategies for accelerating the growth of OA. I wonder, therefore, if anyone would like to share their thoughts on what policies and strategies they feel have been effective or promising in 2011, and how; and what they propose or foresee for2012 and why. Richard Poynder GOAL Moderator www.richardpoynder.co.uk _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal [ Part 2: "Attached Text" ] _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
