{"id":7112,"date":"2019-06-05T15:09:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amelica.org\/?p=7112"},"modified":"2023-09-22T20:54:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T20:54:56","slug":"r2020-a-platform-with-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amelica.org\/index.php\/en\/2019\/06\/05\/r2020-a-platform-with-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"R2020, a principle-based platform"},"content":{"rendered":"

At SPARC, Nick Schokey<\/span> \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0has revealed the topic for the 2019 International Open Access Week<\/strong>: \u201cOpen for Whom?\u00a0 Equity in Open Access,\u201d confronting us, Open Access followers, with one question: \u201cWhose interests are being prioritized in the infrastructure we support?\u00a0 Before this, we ask: \u201cIs the visibility provided by platforms more important than supporting the scholarly communication principles and models they promote?\u201d<\/p>\n

We are pleased to introduce at Ameli Blog Redalyc’s new phase (R2020). With this evolution Redalyc makes clear that Openness has principles and, based on its requirements, agreed by AmeliCA as well, clearly shares the route it considers worthy to be taken for progress and the direction in which it wants to influence.<\/p>\n

The following is the official statement<\/strong><\/a><\/span> Eduardo Aguado-L\u00f3pez and Arianna Becerril-Garc\u00eda announced for R2020’s launch:<\/p>\n

R2020 launched on August 15th<\/sup>: the evolution of a non-profit communication infrastructure by and for the academy that leans towards semantic technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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It was on the 15th anniversary\u2014August 25th<\/sup>, 2017\u2014of the Scientific Information System Redalyc, that its new phase was announced. Henceforth, we have been working, principally, on three paths:<\/p>\n

1) Supporting journals so that they transit to digital publishing. Accordingly, we have consolidated the markup system XML JATS (Marcalyc), training hundreds of editors and modifying the platform in order to allow on-going editing and the inclusion of Open Data, as part of the consolidation of the digital editorial process.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) Reassessing hundreds of journals so that their criteria compliance be transparent, and that evidence may be provided to all users, with this, journals’ editorial force and quality will be visible.<\/span><\/p>\n

3) To value local, multilingual production and rescue the sense of publishing as an act of communication, Redalyc has adhered\u2014along with main publishers, universities, funders and researchers\u2014to San Francisco Declaration DORA, which calls for assessment based on the work’s own merits rather than on its venue of publication. We encourage journals and authors to join us on this. Latindex, Redalyc and CLACSO, the three most important organizations in matters of our region\u2019s publishing, issued a letter of adhesion to DORA. <\/span>.<\/p>\n

These have been two years of great labour to attain transition to digital publishing leaving electronic publishing behind (traditional layout, printing and PDF), such aim was reaffirmed at the 3rd<\/sup> Redalyc Editors International Conference held at Trujillo, Peru in 2018.<\/p>\n

We are convinced that the cost of journals that embrace editing processes that are characteristic of digital journals lowers. Additionally, Redalyc offers Marcalyc, a tool to achieve that process and obtain the added values at an article level (PDF, ePUB, HTML, intelligent and mobile viewer) created through XML JATS and provided by Marcalyc once the tagging process is finished.<\/p>\n

By the same token, we have developed technologies to leverage structured and linked data’s potential as well as a set of metrics. Nonetheless it is impossible that such technology should be applicable to journals that have not transited to digital publishing via XML JATS.<\/p>\n

Journals that share this model include:<\/p>\n