Key Concepts

This tag gathers together the articles that are essential to understand the content of Abierto al Público. We list, below, all the blog entries that we consider key concepts to build and strengthen our audience's understanding of open knowledge and its relation to social and economic development.

6 key ideas to understanding Open Access in Latin America and the Caribbean

March 11, 2014 by Autor invitado 3 Comments

Español What is known as “Open Access” today began very early on in Latin America with SciELO, driven in large part by the emergence of the Internet and the desire by researchers and educators in Latin American to have their intellectual outputs gain higher visibility, mainly in the international communities and with the public in general, and to democratize the access to … [Read more...] about 6 key ideas to understanding Open Access in Latin America and the Caribbean

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