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

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 researchersfrom 57 countries

• Inter-regional cooperation activities in social sciences and humanities

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

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 accessiblehttp://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/documentos/CLACSO_and_Open_Access_version_ingles.pdf

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

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-Humanities.pdf

• 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

Open Access in the Global South

• Open access scholarly communications managed by scholarlycommunities

• 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

To search forOPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

JOLs

to search forOPEN ACCESS REPOSITORIES

Directory of Open Access Repositories

What kind of contents can be found in repositories worlwide

Aligning Repository Networks: International Accord May 2017

CIRG-CAS-CHAIR JAIRO-JPCOA-DRF

Humanities in support of local and global sustainable development agendas

http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

Contact InformationCLACSO- Estados Unidos 1168 C1101AAX Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, ArgentinaTelephone 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