Vizcaíno-Salazar Gilberto
Invest Clin. 2009 Jun;50(2):141-3.
Scientific publications are the most accessible manifestations of research activities and the main mission of public universities and academic communities. The publication legitimizes scientific activity, the authors and the institutions that they promote, but specialized publications have a very small impact on society, since a limited market have implications on their costs' increase and on their possible extinction. In this context, the Open Access initiative (OAI) promotes free access to the scientific knowledge. This movement supports the need for the free availability on Internet of scientific information, for the whole humanity, without restrictions. The modality of open access promotes actions such as stimulus, development and the claim for support for the free subsistence of publications with standards of quality that guarantee a healthy practice, with recognition by the scientific community. In the OAI, the role of the author's copyright should be to grant the control to the authors on the integrity of their work and the right to be adequately recognized and mentioned. It is necessary to emphasize that the OAI will reduce the phenomenon of "lost science", understood as those researches that are never published, taking advantage of the model of development of the Society of the Knowledge and the suitable use of the TICs (technologies of information and communication), to achieve the increment of productivity and the economic and social progress of the countries.
科学出版物是研究活动最易获取的表现形式，也是公立大学和学术团体的主要使命。出版物使科学活动、作者及其所代表的机构合法化，但专业出版物对社会的影响非常小，因为有限的市场会导致其成本增加并可能走向消亡。在这种背景下，开放获取倡议（OAI）促进了对科学知识的免费获取。这一运动支持科学信息在互联网上对全人类免费可得且不受限制的需求。开放获取的模式推动了诸如激励、发展以及要求支持高质量标准出版物的免费存续等行动，这些出版物要得到科学界的认可并保证健康的实践。在开放获取倡议中，作者版权的作用应是赋予作者对其作品完整性的控制权以及获得充分认可和提及的权利。必须强调的是，开放获取倡议将减少“失学”现象，即那些从未发表的研究，借助知识社会的发展模式以及对信息与通信技术的恰当运用，实现各国生产力的提高以及经济和社会的进步。
