1.
Open access to humanities –
perspectives from the Global South
World Humanities Conference
CLACSO’s 50th Anniversary Symposium
Panel “The humanities and knowledge as a public good”
University of Liege, Belgium, 7-9 August 2017
CLACSO´s Open Access programs

2.
Latin American Council of Social Sciences
(CLACSO)
• Non-governmental international organization with
UNESCO associate status
• 50 years (established in 1967)
• Brings together 616 social sciences and humanities
associated institutions in 47 countries
• 110 Working Groups with 3,430 researchers
from 57 countries
• Inter-regional cooperation activities in social sciences
and humanities

3.
CLACSO´s open access results
• CLACSO´s editorial catalog
– 2.500 books in open access
• CLACSO´s Digital Repository
– 100.000 social science and humanities full-texts in open
access (one million downloads a month)
• CLACSO-REDALYC portal of social science and humanities
peer-review journals from Iberoamerica
– 864 open access journals (364.000 articles), 4 million
downloads average each month
• Incidence in open access policies and legislation
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/documentos/CLACSO_and_Open_Access_version_ingles.pdf

4.
CLACSO´s open access campaign principles
Knowledge is a commons
Access to knowledge is a right
Knowledge produced with public
funds must be publicly available
and freely accessible
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/documentos/CLACSO_and_Open_Access_version_ingles.pdf

5.
Open access to research – benefits of publishing in
open access journals and repositories (SPARC)
• Increases readers’ ability to find/use
relevant literature
• Increases the visibility, readership and
impact of author’s works
• Creates new avenues for discovery in digital
environment
• Enhances interdisciplinary research
• Accelerates the pace of research, discovery
and innovation
source SPARC www.sparc.arl.org/resources/open-access/why-oa

6.
Predominant in anglosaxon countries
• Article processing charges
(APC), subsidies and
collective initiatives for
open access journals
• book processing charges are
the predominant form of
current implementation for
open-access books
full-text in
www.martineve.com/images/uploads/2014
/11/Eve_2014_Open-Access-and-the-
• Article processing
charges (APC), subsidies
and collective initiatives
for open access journals
• book processing charges
are the predominant
form of current
implementation for
open-access books
www.martineve.com/images/uploads/2014/11/Eve_2014_Open-Access-and-the-Humanities.pdf
Open access and humanities in the North

7.
Open Access in the Global South
• Open access scholarly communications managed by scholarly
communities
• No outsourcing to commercial publishers
• Costs covered with public funds for research and education
• Examples:
 Open access journals
 Open access journal portals
 Open access repositories
 Institutional
 National
 Regional
 Subject repositories
 Other publishing platforms

8.
To search for
OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS
JOLs

9.
to search for
OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES
Directory of Open Access Repositories

10.
What kind of contents can be found in
repositories worlwide

11.
Aligning Repository Networks: International Accord May 2017
CIRG-CAS-CHAIR JAIRO-JPCOA-DRF

12.
Humanities in support of local and global
sustainable development agendas
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

13.
Contact Information
CLACSO- Estados Unidos 1168 C1101AAX Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Telephone numbers: (54-11) 4304-9505/9332 | clacso@clacso.edu.ar | www.clacso.org
Thank you!!!
Fernanda Saforcada, Academic Cooperation,
CLACSO
Questions about open access:
Dominique Babini, Open Access Advisor at CLACSO
babini@clacso.edu.ar