{"id":8289,"date":"2018-10-10T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T19:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amelica.org\/?p=8289"},"modified":"2023-12-04T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:33:25","slug":"opening-demands-principles-the-case-of-open-access-to-scientific-and-scholarly-information-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amelica.org\/index.php\/en\/2018\/10\/10\/opening-demands-principles-the-case-of-open-access-to-scientific-and-scholarly-information-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Openness demands principles\u2013the case of Open Access to scientific and scholarly information"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dominique Babini<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

New information and communication technologies available, allow us\u2014 society\u2014to open our contents, technologies, and processes of our activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The openness process provides great opportunities to move forward with more participation and efficacy when constructing new knowledge and sharing it with those sectors of society able to apply it to meet specific needs.<\/span><\/p>\n

As in any openness process, which is a social construction, decisions must be made based on the principles we believe such openness should be grounded.<\/span><\/p>\n

Briefly, I will touch on some facts and decisions that have accompanied this Open Access process (Suber, 2015)<\/span> \u2014open and free online access to full-text scientific and scholarly publications\u2014so we can see the principles present in that openness process which has been here for more than two decades. <\/span><\/p>\n

My intention is to show that in matters of open access to scientific and scholarly knowledge is important to clearly understand the principles and visions before making decisions about what, how, for whom, and why contents, technologies and processes should be made open.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whether the commercial sector in the hands of few international publishers, that with its inflated prices of 35-40% has been one of the main reasons why the Open Access movement began, should be part of the solution? Or should the scholarly community be the one to recover the management of scientific communications by developing its own platforms and services?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Open Access to scientific and scholarly knowledge in developed countries, where decades ago the privatisation of knowledge reached the academic and scientific fields and which outsourced great part of journals and scientific and scholarly books to the commercial sector, had two different visions for sharing knowledge since its beginning. On the one hand, there were scientists aware of the amount that\u2019s taken from budgets for scientific research to cover such outsourcing. They contend that research funded with public funds should be freely available to everyone. And on the other hand, the sector of commercial scholarly editing in the hands of few international corporations.<\/span><\/p>\n

I share four cases of those scientists that, in their own way, envisioned open access.<\/span><\/p>\n