An Overview Of The Development Of Open Access Journals And Repositories In Mexico

It has been noted that one of the potential benefits of Open Access is the increase in visibility for research output from less developed countries. However little is known about the development of OA journals and repositories in these regions. This paper presents an exploratory overview of the situation in Mexico, one of the leading countries in terms of scientific output in Latin America. To conduct the overview we focused on OA journals and repositories already in place and in development. It was particularly hard to locate information and our results do not intend to be exhaustive. We identified 72 Mexican OA journals using DOAJ. Of these journals 45 are from REDALyC which we identified as a key project in OA journal development in Mexico. Using OpenDOAR and ROAR, ten Mexican repositories were identified. These were reviewed and classified. We found a large variation between repositories in terms of size, degree of development and type. The more advanced repositories were well dev...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ELPUB
• Authors: Isabel Galina, Joaquín Giménez
• Keywords: ELPUB 2008, Information Management, Mexican OA Journals, Oa Journal, Repositories