Timothy Vollmer. Image courtesy of Creative Commons on Flickr.
On Wednesday, April 27, 2016, OASPA will host a live Twitter chat about licensing with Timothy Vollmer, Public Policy Manager at Creative Commons, from 3pm-4pm BST (7am PDT, 10am EDT, 11am BRT, 3pm WAT, 4pm CEST/EET/SAST, 7.30pm IST, 11pm KST, 12am + 1 day AEST). Please join us for the hour by tweeting your questions about licensing, Creative Commons, and open access using the hashtag #OASPAChat, and Timothy will be there to answer them!
In my country (Chile) and region (Latin America), open access has no problems for its development; however, are still very few public statements and agreements on their behalf. How you can help us promote OA in our countries?
We are aware that recently at the 2nd National Congress of Scientific Journals in Chiapas (http://2cnrc.cesmeca.mx/magistrales.html) there was a session on the future of OA for Latin America and steps are definitely being taken to move towards standardisation. We are maintaining links with CLACSO, Redalyc and SciELO to help promote open access where we can. SciELO is a member of OASPA and Abel Packer presented at our annual conference at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 2014, as well as Dominique Babini representing CLACSO (https://oaspa.org/conference/presentations-coasp-2014/). Arianna Becerril-García of Redalyc will be speaking to delegates at our conference in the US this coming September (https://oaspa.org/conference/) and we look forward to sharing news about developments being made and promoting this more widely.
Many thaks for your reply. I think the problem is that no work is done directly with publishers and everything is kept in high places. best regards
Follow the discussion about licensing on twitter: #OASPAChat
In case you missed it, here’s our round-up summary and Storify of OASPA’s Twitter Chat with Timothy Vollmer on licensing, which took place on April 27, 2016: https://oaspa.org/licensing-insights
– Leyla Williams, Events and Communications Coordinator, OASPA