Abstract
The objective of this study is to investigate how Open Science (OS) values and practices have influenced open access (OA) journals publishers in Latin American and the Caribbean (LA&C) countries. Our key research question is: to what extent are these practices being adopted by LA&C journals? In order to address this question, we conducted a survey with a sample of LA&C journals listed on the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) database. The results reveal that many journals are somewhat aware of or informed about most of open science practices being discussed, but just some of them have already successfully adopted those practices.
Highlights
11 we briefly describe some proposed and ongoing open science and open access initiatives and policies developed in six Latin American and the Caribbean countries (LA&C) countries, which have played a significant role in this area
We extracted data from the complete Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) database about open access journals located in LA&C countries, resulting in a list of 2,010 journals distributed in 19 countries
Based on the research results, it is possible to emphasize that journals in LA&C are somewhat aware of, or informed about, most of open science practices being discussed, and some of those journals have already even successfully implemented some practice
Summary
It is worth to mention the initiative from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) named Open Access Spectrum Evaluation Tool (OAS). we briefly describe some proposed and ongoing open science and open access initiatives and policies developed in six LA&C countries, which have played a significant role in this area. Since 2000, the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict) led a strong open access movement, providing capacity building and infrastructure for this purpose. Some Brazilian legislators with the support of the academic community and research institutes, proposed two bills to the House of Representatives—to the Congress in 2007 and to the Senate in 2011—demanding the deposit of all research outputs resulting from public funding in institutional repositories. In 2014, Ibict organised an international seminar that brought together a representative group of foreign and local OS and OA experts and advocates, addressing topics such as open data, open hardware, academic open source software, citizen science and open notebook science
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