Open access to humanities – perspectives from the Global South
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Presented by CLACSO at 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
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Open access to humanities – perspectives from the Global South
- 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. Open access to research – benefits of publishing in open access journals and repositories • 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
- 5. 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
- 6. 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
- 7. To search for OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS JOLs
- 8. to search for OPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES Directory of Open Access Repositories
- 9. What kind of contents can be found in repositories worlwide
- 10. Aligning Repository Networks: International Accord May 2017 CIRG-CAS-CHAIR JAIRO-JPCOA-DRF
- 11. Humanities in support of local and global sustainable development agendas http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
- 12. 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
Editor's Notes
- From where we speak: CLACSO is a 50 years old research network whose activities are concentrated in the field of the social sciences and the humanities. We promote an interdisciplinary approach to major social, political, environmental, cultural, economic and educational problems that confront our societies. And we are very active in intra-regional and inter-regional cooperation in social sciences and the humanities.
- All publications from CLACSO –journals, books, policy briefs, working documents, multimedia- are available in open Here are some numbers which show the results of CLACSO´s initiatives in open access in the past 15 years
- CLACSO´s open access campaign promotes a model of open access to knowledge as a commons, managed in participatory and inclusive models by the scholarly community, with no outsourcing to commercial publishers, and defends this position in the international debate on a renewal of scholarly communications
- What is open access and why it has so many benefits? The short definition of “open access” is free online access. There are two primary ways to publish in open access: publish in an open access journal and/or in a repository When we publish in open access, we increase the size of our audience and the impact of our work.
- In this book, which is available in open access, Martin Eve mentions that “The production costs of a book are significantly higher than the production costs of an article. Hence, it’s significantly harder to find subsidies to pay for OA books than those to pay for OA journals” This book describes several business models for open access in the humanities, mainly in European and anglophone countries.
- The region from where we come, Latin America, is the region of the world where the transition to open access publications (publications which are free to download from the web) has the highest adoption rate, this transition to open access is managed and funded by the scholarly community as part of the cost of research, with no need to pay to read and no need to pay to publish (no APCs- article processing charges), and with no outsourcing to commercial publishers. Slowly but steadily over the past 15 years in developed and developing regions open access platforms and repositories managed by the scholarly communities, with no outsourcing to commercial publishers, have become increasingly important components when thinking of regional and global research infrastructures. These open access publishing platforms and repositories allow humanities outputs to have more visibility and access in support of education, research, and all kind of activities.
- Here are examples of where to access open access journals Nearly ten thousand open access journals from 123 countries are included in DOAJ For specific searches in the Global South, examples are - AJOL in Africa (220 open access journals from Africa, - SciELO (1.250 open access journals from Iberoamerican countries and South Africa) Redalyc (1.218 open access journals from Iberoamerican countries) INASP has journals online collections for several countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa
- Nearly 4000 repositories worldwide are included in these two services where you can search for repositories in all countries.
- An open access repository is a set of services that provide open access to research or educational content created at an institution or by a specific research community. They may be institutionally-based or subject based collections.
- COAR-Confederation of Open Access Repositories, is working together with Regional networks of repositories to build a worldwide collaborative and distributed infrastructure of repositories. The leading case in regional repositories is OpenAIRE in Europe that has a very robust repository landscape with about 45% percent of the world’s repositories. And then, in other regions of the world, regional networks are adopting common approaches to policies, practices and technologies that allow open access to several millions of full-texts worldwide.
- The initiatives mentioned in this presentation gives examples of how humanities from developed and developing countries can improve its visibility and access to better serve local and global sustainable development agendas
- Thank you very much. Here you can find the mail in case you have questions or comments about this presentation we have prepared in CLACSO.