Repertorios abiertos el libre acceso a contenidos
| Main Authors: | Serrano-Muñoz, Jordi, Prats-Prat, Jordi |
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| Format: | Journal PeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | es |
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Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
, 2005
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/7759/1/repertoriosabiertos.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/7759/ |
Daftar Isi:
- New information and communication technologies are modifying the mechanisms used by distinct communities to communicate among themselves. In academic or scientific communities, currently one must speak of open-access archives or the open access movement. Based on the principle of open access to knowledge, scientists are aware that the current systems of publishing and communicating their studies is more and more elitist and, consequently, exclusive. Within this framework, the first initiatives to create open archives for specialized documents appeared at the beginning of the 1990s. The aim was to facilitate access to these documents, which had hitherto been available only to those who could pay. Since then, the principles governing this movement have evolved. Currently, it is the academic institutions themselves that support the creation of these archives with the aim of protecting rights over their activities at the same time as they facilitate knowledge transfer through the web. Although these systems do not yield to traditional methods of evaluating results, such as peer review, their use is becoming increasingly frequent, to such a degree that their contents are often more commonly cited, and therefore used, than those of traditional scientific journals. Far from substituting these journals, they are perceived as complementary to established mechanisms of validating science, providing more agile, accessible and less rigid environments.