FOR A REGIONAL OPEN SCIENCE ECOSYSTEM: AN ALLIANCE OF THE GREEN WAY AND THE DIAMOND PATH OF OPEN ACCESS

The Redalyc Scientific Information System (Mexico), the Federated Network of Institutional Repositories of Scientific Publications “LA Reference” and the Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks, “RedCLARA”, (Uruguay) sign an agreement to constitute a general collaboration framework for the establishment of the implementation principles of openness, consensus, inclusion and harmonization, community approach, non-profit, for the consolidation of a Regional Science Ecosystem Open for interoperability the green route and the golden route of Open Access that improve visibility and contribute to new forms of scientific evaluation.

Recognizing the current needs of the promotion of knowledge as an accessible non-profit good; LA Reference, together with RedCLARA, forms its vision of being recognized as a key actor in the strengthening of science and technology in Latin America, working on the consolidation of a field of political and technical discussion integrated by the governments of Latin Americans and associated external countries, in increasing the visibility of regional scientific production at a global level, in the development of open software platforms for the aggregation, quality control, enrichment and interoperability of scientific production metadata and in the interconnectivity of the National Research and Education Networks (RNIE) with advanced academic networks from the rest of the world.

In favor of eradicating delimitations, more and more projects are promoted that favor Open Science, which is why LA Reference and RedCLARA together with the science and technology organizations that make up LA Reference (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay) and the National Research and Education Networks (RNIE) of the region propose to work collaboratively with other initiatives for the consolidation of a Regional Science Ecosystem Open.

For its part, Redalyc has been formed as a non-profit open infrastructure to strengthen Diamond Open Access by offering a collaborative framework for capacity building in scientific journals, editorial production, XML JATS markup, visibility, interoperability, quality improvement and metrics of non-commercial Open Access scientific journals.

Redalyc carries out journal indexing processes based on quality evaluation. It also hosts the full-text articles and normalizes the metadata associated with them. The latter includes the normalization of the institutional affiliations of the authors, which allows scientific production to be classified by author’s institution, country and other associated data.

Among the services offered by Redalyc is interoperability with repositories, through offering an OAI-PMH data provider for each institution with scientific production published in the journals indexed by Redalyc, with the purpose of providing a service to the repositories to recover the scientific production of their communities, whether institutional, national or thematic repositories.

The purpose of this cooperation seeks:

  • Promote theinteroperability of metadata between Diamond Open Access and Green Open Access in general, and between the regional platforms Redalyc and LA Reference in particular, with the aim ofmaximizing the open access visibility of regional scientific and technical production.
  • Facilitate** the scientific production published in Diamond Open Access scientific journals to be available both in institutional repositories and in national nodes and in LA Reference, as well as in evaluation systems and CRIS platforms.**
  • Collaborate in the development of open software that improves the quality of metadata, compliance with international guidelines, the preservation and recovery of research products, with the clear objective of generating regional public goods that support the implementation of national and regional Open Science policies.

Generate and participate in spaces for discussion and exchange with other initiatives in the region to jointly contribute to the design of new metrics and research evaluation mechanisms based on the inputs, products and processes of Open Science.

Note the signing of the agreement here.