[okfn-discuss] Open access is now required by law in Argentina

Fri Nov 15 13:01:50 UTC 2013

*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

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