Latin American science is meant to be open access: Initiatives and current challenges

Information Development

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 477-481

  Babini, Dominique ^a   Machin Mastromatteo, Juan D ^b  

^a Latin America Council of Social Sciences – CLACSO ^*  (Argentina)

^b Petróleos de Venezuela   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Latin America; open access; repositories; scholarly communications; scientific communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943550698     PISSN: 02666669     EISSN: 17416469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0266666915601420     Document Type: Article

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