---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dominique Babini <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:01 AM Subject: [BOAI] Open access is now required by law in Argentina To: "Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], WSIS Knowledge Communities <[email protected]>
*Open access is now required by law in Argentina* November 13th. 2013 Today the Argentine Congress passed legislation that requires that all publicly funded research be available in open access interoperable institutional repositories (individual or collaborative repositories) with a maximum embargo of 6 months. The draft of the legislation had been prepared in 2010 by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINCYT<http://www.mincyt.gob.ar/noticias/es-ley-el-acceso-libre-a-la-informacion-cientifica-9521>) together with an Experts Committee<http://repositorios.mincyt.gob.ar/comite_expertos.php>of the National Digital Repositories System <http://repositorios.mincyt.gob.ar/> established by the Ministry to support the development and coordination of digital repositories. In May 2012 the Chamber of Deputies passed the bill (SciDev<http://www.scidev.net/global/communication/news/argentina-takes-steps-towards-open-access-law.html> and Nature<http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/05/argentine-legislators-approves-open-access-law.html>comments) and in November 13 th. 2013, the Senate passed the bill which will be enacted and regulated. The text of the bill approved by Deputies, with no changes in the Senate, is in Spanish here<http://www1.hcdn.gov.ar/dependencias/dsecretaria/Periodo2012/PDF2012/SANCIONES/1927-D-2011.pdf> . In Latin America, open access legislation requiring publicly funded research to be available in open access digital repositories has been approved in Argentina<http://www1.hcdn.gov.ar/dependencias/dsecretaria/Periodo2012/PDF2012/SANCIONES/1927-D-2011.pdf>and Perú<http://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/comisiones/2012/com2012ciencia.nsf/0/cb7c863ded37261e05257b3b007c029c/$FILE/1188_Sustitutoria_27MAR2013.pdf>in 2013, and is being discussed in Congress in Brazil <http://kuramoto.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/pls387_2011.pdf> (since 2007) and in México<http://www.senado.gob.mx/sgsp/gaceta/62/1/2013-03-14-1/assets/documentos/Ini_Herrera_Anzaldo-CyT_LGE.pdf>(2013). A region that has a strong tradition of providing open access to research results in collaborative information systems, as we have described in the LAC Section of UNESCO GOAP-Global Open Access Portal<http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/access-by-region/latin-america-and-the-caribbean/>. In 2012, 9 governments of the region (Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, México, Chile, Ecuador, Perú, Venezuela, El Salvador) started a network of interoperable national digital repositories systems, “La Referencia<http://lareferencia.redclara.net/rfr/>”, with support from IADB. La Referencia is the Latin American member of COAR<http://www.coar-repositories.org/news-media/further-development-of-coar-in-latin-america/> . According to estimations of IADB, beneficiaries of open access in the region could be the 15 million higher education students, 700.000 professors and 70.000 researchers, and the general public. "*the enactment of the law is a response to the monopolistic position of large international publishers that concentrate the publication of scientific research" … "the aim is that scientific research funded by society be accessible. It is unacceptable that if the national government funds research, society cannot access to that knowledge*" Dr. Alejandro Ceccatto, Secretary of Science and Technology Articulation in the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Argentina (MINCYT news<http://www.mincyt.gob.ar/noticias/es-ley-el-acceso-libre-a-la-informacion-cientifica-9521> ) News shared by Dra. Dominique Babini *CLACSO *Latin America Council of Social Sciences - Open Access Program *University of Buenos Aires *IIGG Open Access Scholarly Communications Research Project *Experts Committee of the National Digital Repositories System* MINCYT, Argentina *UNESCO GOAP *Global Open Access Portal - Contributor for Latin America & Caribbean @dominiquebabini Skype: dominique.babini Mail: [email protected] CLACSO - Estados Unidos 1168 (C1101AAX) Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel.: (54-11) 4304-9145/9505 Fax: (54-11) 4305-0875 www.clacso.org -- To unsubscribe from the BOAI Forum, use the form on this page: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/boai-forum -- *Carolina Rossini* *Project Director, Latin America Resource Center* Open Technology Institute *New America Foundation* // http://carolinarossini.net/ + 1 6176979389 *[email protected]* skype: carolrossini @carolinarossini
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