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The international launchment of the MSCA Project OpenRAM will take place in Mendoza during the CECIC WORKSHOP, December 2, 3 and 4

admin-cecic Uncategorized 21 October, 202613 November, 2026

The scientific event will take place during 3 days. It brings together most of the partners from the OpenRAM Consortium and will also host experts from different parts of the world that participate in other research projects at work in the CECIC. Simultaneous translation English-Spanish will be provided. The event will be held in person, but will also be streamed via Zoom. Registration is open to the general public.

The Opening Research Assessment to Multi-Contexts (OpenRAM) project was approved by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON), under the call HORIZON-MSCA-2025-SE-01. The project will run for four years, starting in September 2026 and ending in late 2030. OpenRAM seeks to transform research assessment by moving beyond publication-based indicators such as Journal Impact Factor and addressing their systemic biases. Current systems often overlook societal impact, undervalue diverse outputs like datasets or policy contributions, and marginalize knowledge from underrepresented regions. To respond to these challenges, OpenRAM introduces the Multiversatory, a participatory and federated living lab that integrates diverse data sources and develops context-sensitive indicators. The Multiversatory combines conceptual development, empirical case studies, and capacity building to create fairer and more transparent assessment practices. It promotes inclusive and participatory approaches, addresses epistemic inequities by making visible diverse knowledge systems, and fosters equitable collaborations between North and South.

The workshop will feature discussions over the results of the diferent projects in progress: RADAR/Diamond Future; The UNESCO Chair for Open Science – Université de Montreal; DAAD-CONICET Open Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Argentina and Germany (OSSHAG); and the Proyecto María Viñas Uruguay.

The workshop will welcome more than 40 presentations by researchers from different continents. Confirmed participants include: Vincent Larivière, Diego Kozlowski, Carolina Pradier, Natsumi Shokida, Malena Méndez Isla, Lucía Céspedes, Pierre Benz (University of Montreal, Canada); Julian Vuorimäki (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany); Sarah Wessel, Stefan Skupien (Berlin University Alliance “BUA”); Barbara Göbel, Christoph Müller, Peter Birle (Ibero-American Institute, Germany); Juan Pablo Alperin (Simon Fraser University, Canada); Erwin Krauskopf (University of the Americas, Chile); Carolina Nascimiento (University College Dublin, Ireland); Gonzalo Villarreal, Enzo Rucci, Lautaro Josín, Ignacio Gallardo, Pablo de Albuquerque, Juan Cruz Mazullo (Hera-SEDICI, National University of La Plata, Argentina); Paola Bongiovani (National University of Rosario, Argentina); Ezequiel Fontans, Natalia Aguirre (University of the Republic, Uruguay); Ismael Ràfols García (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain); Rodrigo Costas Comesaña (Leiden University, Netherlands); Alysson Fernandes Mazoni (State University of Campinas, Brazil); Jorge Polanco-Cortés (University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica); Daniela Perrota (National University of the Arts); Niki Vermeulen, Soledad Ferrari (University of Edinburgh, Scotland); Janne Pölönen (Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Finland); Gabriel Vélez-Cuartas (University of Antioquia, Colombia); as well as members of the CECIC team from various Argentine universities.

The presentations will be organized into 8 thematic panels, spread over 3 days.

Latindex-HERA-CECIC synergy fosters Open Science

admin-cecic Uncategorized 19 February, 202619 February, 2026

Within the framework of two initiatives funded by the European Union—Diamond Future (Berlin University Alliance) and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program (Horizon Europe)—the teams at Latindex (National Autonomous University of Mexico), HERA (National University of La Plata), and OLIVA-CECIC (National University of Cuyo) are consolidating a collaboration aimed at promoting open, non-commercial infrastructures. This alliance promotes innovative tools and metrics to transform research evaluation, with a focus on high-quality regional journals.

The novelty is the inclusion of Latindex as a source and resource for the HERA (Tool for the Enrichment of Academic Resources) platform, which substantially expands the visibility of the Latindex 2.0 Catalog and strengthens its impact on search, evaluation, and recognition circuits for regional scientific production. The collaborative technical development consists of a system of equivalencies between the URL (identified with a “folio” in Latindex) and the ISSN of each journal, allowing searches in HERA by ISSN and incorporating the reports generated into Latindex.

This advance strengthens immediate interoperability and facilitates more consistent access from external tools, expanding the number of users who can find these journals. New stages of joint work are planned to expand the harvest of the Latindex article discoverer.

Access the explanatory video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZEAFxW4wN2YpFYRSr9q8lHHV2sPff68Y/view?usp=drive_link

This collaboration is directly aligned with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 17 (Partnerships for the Goals), which fosters revitalizing global partnerships for sustainable development through multi-stakeholder cooperation. The Latindex-HERA-CECIC alliance, based on three public universities in Latin America and supported by Horizon Europe, exemplifies cooperation that mobilizes the exchange of knowledge, technical capacity, and technology to strengthen open academic infrastructures. It also contributes to SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure) through this collaborative technological solution—the URL-ISSN system—which improves scientific information infrastructure, fosters innovation in research evaluation methods, and especially supports regional production.

This collaborative work is part of a shared diagnosis among the three universities involved. A significant portion of quality journals—non-commercial, self-managed by academic communities, and aligned with diamond open access—are not adequately collected by global aggregators. In this context, facilitating access to the rich information in the Latindex 2.0 Catalog (including criteria met/not met) is strategic for information science, bibliometric studies, scientific evaluation, and public policy.

CECIC Member to Give a Presentation at Humboldt University of Berlin

admin-cecic Uncategorized 26 January, 202626 January, 2026

Next Wednesday, January 28, at 6 a.m. Argentina time, Osvaldo Gallardo will present “A quantitative and qualitative approach to the political economy of scientific publications in a challenging context. Argentine researchers and article processing charges (APCs): bibliometrics, representations, and practices.” The event will be held in person at Humboldt University in Berlin, with transmission via Zoom.

Globally, concerns are rising about the profit-driven scientific publishing model, which, under the guise of (commercial) Open Access, continually increases the Article Processing Charges (APCs) required to publish in an ever-growing number of scientific journals. In Argentina, the scientific community faces intense pressure from ongoing government attacks and substantial budget cuts. In this challenging context, how are researchers’ practices and perceptions evolving?

In the first part of this presentation, I share the results of a research project examining the impact and practices of researchers in peripheral countries who regularly face the challenge of paying APCs. Based on a survey conducted between 2023 and 2024 in Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, and Brazil, I briefly highlight the differences across countries, disciplines, and between junior and senior researchers.

In the second part, I present preliminary results from a more focused analysis. From a Bourdieu-inspired perspective, the distinctive aspects of the Argentine case offer a rich opportunity to reflect on how local and global conditions influence the position and disposition of researchers under political and academic pressures. To do this, I examine three analytical dimensions: 1) whether Argentine-based researchers’ publication practices have changed (or not) in recent years, using open bibliometric sources; 2) the waivers policy of the main profit-oriented publishing companies for these authors; and 3) the researchers’ perspective on the APC-based publishing model in 2023, on the eve of the far-right government’s start, and the evolving (or unchanged) practices and viewpoints after two years of threats and budget cuts.

Link de Zoom

https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/66137712462?pwd=bTF4VG9Ca1BxMkFqOE9xTFZxYldWQT09
Meeting-ID: 661 3771 2462

CECIC participates in the organization of the Forum on Decolonization in Istanbul

admin-cecic Uncategorized 2 January, 202631 March, 2026

In a world where global asymmetries and epistemic injustice have become unmistakably visible, critical reflection on knowledge hierarchies has become increasingly urgent. The Decolonization Forum 2026: Decolonizing Knowledge Production and Circulation aims to bring together scholars, researchers, and intellectuals from around the world to critically examine dominant paradigms, share alternative frameworks rooted in local and indigenous knowledge, and envision decolonial futures across disciplines.

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Flyer for the event and meeting of the forum’s academic committee on December 30, 2025.

The event has the academic endorsement of the Board of Directors of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. The two-day forum will feature a keynote speech, plenary sessions, and parallel sessions along with an interactive “Decolonization Talks” series. By combining plenary and thematic formats, the programme seeks to foster both in-depth scholarly debate and cross-disciplinary exchange.

The plenary sessions at the forum will address four interrelated thematic areas:

The Problem of Knowledge Production: Decolonizing Methodologies Knowledge Production and Circulation in Higher Education
Decolonizing Media: Disrupting Hegemonic Narratives
From Epistemic Dependency to Economic Sovereignty: Rethinking Development Models

Alongside these plenary sessions, the forum will host six parallel academic sessions. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts for these sessions on a broader range of related topics.

Critical Themes

We encourage a broad range of theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

Colonial Histories of Knowledge Circulation
Epistemic Injustice and Knowledge Inequalities
Alternative Genealogies of Knowledge
Mobility of Knowledge Across Borders
Decolonizing the Disciplines: Social Sciences, Humanities and Beyond
Methodologies for Decolonized Knowledge Production
Decolonizing Research Agenda and Ecosystem
Knowledge and Power in the Digital Age
Knowledge Circulation for Decolonization

Access to the accounts is available via the links below:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=%2Fworlddecolonizationforum&source=omni_redirect
X: https://x.com/wdecolonization?s=21
For contact: info@decolonizationforum.org

The Workshop CECIC 2025 was held: “Reforms of the evaluation system and open science under scrutiny: global dilemmas and academic asymmetries.”

admin-cecic Uncategorized 20 November, 202518 December, 2025

The event took place on December 1 and 2 at the CICUNC Central Cylinder, National University of Cuyo, and had simultaneous English-Spanish translation.

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This workshop aims to reflect on various relevant and compelling topics in current international scientific discourse. To this end, six panels have been developed to address the dynamics of knowledge circulation, such as the drain of scientific publications on the publishing market; the future of global, regional, and national data sources; emerging and persistent asymmetries in science, such as gender and class; different perspectives on open data in the social sciences; the processes of selecting scientific journals by researchers; and the current dynamics of academic evaluation.

The scientific event will consist of two days of presentations, which will be simultaneously translated into English-Spanish. During the first day, the panels will focus on the asymmetries inherent in the scientific system, data sources from a multiscale perspective, and the drain of academic publishing on the international market. Stefanie Haustein (School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada & co-director, ScholCommLab), Vincent Larivière (CIRST, Université de Montréal, Canada), Fernanda Beigel (INCIHUSA-CONICET / CECIC, FCPYS-Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina), Juan Pablo Alperin (Simon Fraser University, Canada & co -director, ScholCommLab), Alysson Fernandes Mazoni (University of Campinas, Brazil), Lucía Céspedes (Érudit / Université de Montréal, Canada), Osvaldo Gallardo (CONICET / CECIC, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, National University of Cuyo, Argentina), Carolina Pradier (Université de Montréal, Canada), Diego Kozlowski (Université de Montréal, Canada), Natsumi S. Shokida (Université de Montréal, Canada), Víctor Montoya (National University of Tres de Febrero, CECIC, Argentina), Denis Baranger (National University of Misiones, CECIC, Argentina), Marina Félix de Melo (Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil).

During the second session, the topics will focus on open data and its development from the social sciences, how researchers choose where to publish their research, and current academic evaluation processes. Participants will include Peter Birle (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Germany), Carolina Santarossa (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Germany), Clara Ruvituso (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Germany), Fabio Erreguerena (CECIC, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, National University of Cuyo, Argentina), Juan Piovani (CONICET, UNLPlata, Argentina), Osvaldo Gallardo (CONICET / CECIC, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, National University of Cuyo, Argentina) & Gonzalo Castillo (CONICET, Faculty of Social Sciences, National University of San Juan, CECIC, Argentina), Exequiel Fontans (SNI Uruguay / University of the Republic, Uruguay), Fernanda Beigel (INCIHUSA-CONICET / CECIC, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, National University of Cuyo, Argentina), Gonzalo Villarreal (PREBI-SEDICI National University of La Plata and CESGI Scientific Research Commission, Argentina), Enzo Rucci (III-LIDI, Faculty of Computer Science, National University of La Plata and Scientific Research Commission, Argentina), Lautaro Josin Saller (PREBI-SEDICI National University of La Plata, Argentina), Juan Cruz Mazullo (PREBI-SEDICI National University of La Plata, Argentina), Erwin Krauskopf (University of the Americas, Chile), Pierre Benz (University of Geneva, Switzerland / Université de Montréal, Canada), Natsumi S. Shokida (Université de Montréal, Canada), and Maximiliano Salatino (INCIHUSA-CONICET, CECIC-UNCuyo, Argentina).

Below are the links to access the videos of each panel and the complete program.

CECIC organizes a webinar to discuss the World Inequality Lab (Nievas-Piketty) report on unequal exchange 1800-2025

admin-cecic Uncategorized 6 November, 20256 November, 2025

The event will be held in a hybrid format on November 19 at 5:30 p.m. It will feature Gastón Nievas, Emmanuel Álvarez Agis, Juan Carlos Aguiló, Laura Neri, and Mariana Heredia.

During the webinar, the Nievas-Piketty report entitled “Unequal exchange and North-South relations: evidence from global trade flows and the world balance of payments 1800-2025” will be presented. The report analyzes global trade flows and the world balance of payments, covering 57 major territories (48 countries and 9 residual regions) during the period 1800-2025. The construction of this database made it possible to analyze patterns of global imbalances, current account surpluses and deficits, and the accumulation of net external wealth over more than two centuries.

The presentation and discussion will be in Spanish and will feature the participation of co-author Gastón Nievas, with comments from Emmanuel Álvarez Agis (PxQ Consultora); Juan Carlos Aguiló (FCPyS, UNCuyo), Laura Neri (FCPyS, UNCuyo); and Mariana Heredia (UNSAM). The seminar will be coordinated by Fernanda Beigel (CONICET, CECIC-UNCuyo) and Victor Algarañaz (CONICET, IICE-UNSJ).

Participants

Emmanuel Álvarez Agis

Emmanuel Álvarez Agis holds a bachelor's and master's degree in economics from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He also has a postgraduate degree in public opinion and political communication from FLACSO. He was Deputy Minister of Economy between 2013 and 2015 and Undersecretary of Macroeconomic Programming between 2011 and 2013. He has advised the UN and the World Bank on economic policy and has published academic articles on macroeconomic issues in several specialized journals. He directed the economics program at the National University of Juarez Chihuahua (UNAJ) between 2016 and 2019. He is currently a partner at PxQ Consultora, where he heads the Macroeconomics department.

Juan Carlos Aguiló

Juan Carlos Aguiló holds a PhD in Social Sciences from UNCuyo, a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University, and a Bachelor's in Sociology from UNCuyo. He works as a professor and researcher at UNCuyo: Full Professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, UNCuyo; Postgraduate professor at national and international universities. He was Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (2005-2011) and Coordinator of the Public Policy Area of the UNCuyo Rector's Office (2011-2014). He is Executive Coordinator of the Council of Deans of Social Sciences and Humanities Faculties (CODESOC); national and international consultant on government and public policy, public management, social development, social policy, and rural development. He is co-author of the book “Universal Child Allowance: Impact on Life Trajectories and Ideological Struggle,” published by the Floreal Gorini Cultural Cooperation Center, Buenos Aires, ISBN 978-3920-24-0, and of numerous articles on public and social policy.

Laura Neri

Laura Neri holds a PhD in Social Sciences with a specialization in Political Science from UNCuyo, Mendoza. She also holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences with a specialization in Political Science from FLACSO Argentina and a Diploma in Advanced Studies from Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain. She has a degree in Political Science from UNCuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. She currently works as a lecturer and researcher in Social Policy and Public Policy at UNCUyo, Mendoza. She has taught courses on Social Policy at universities in Argentina and abroad. Her research topics include Inequality and Social Policy, Welfare States, and Social Policy in Latin America.

Mariana Heredia

Mariana Heredia is a specialist in the sociology of elites and the historical sociology of recent Argentina. She is a researcher at CONICET at the Institute of Higher Social Studies, where she also teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. In addition, she is the director of the Master's program in Economic Sociology and a professor at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of San Andrés. She has published numerous articles in national and international journals, as well as the books A quoi sert un économiste (Paris, 2014), Cuando los economistas alcanzaron el poder (Buenos Aires, 2015), and ¿El 99% contra el 1%? (Buenos Aires, 2022). She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

CECIC updates the OLIVA Website with the Results of the Second Stage in Collaboration with Latindex and Biblat

admin-cecic OLIVA 1 October, 20251 October, 2025

We are pleased to announce the update and renewal of the Latin American Observatory of Indicators for Evaluation (OLIVA) section, featuring new datasets and completed project stages. Since its founding in 2018, OLIVA’s main goal has been to make visible the science published in journals indexed in Latin America and to generate evaluation indicators that help to value this production. Its starting point is the recognition that the region has a longstanding publishing tradition expressed in a threefold movement: the numerical expansion of published journals; the emergence of the first indexing and information systems (Biblat, Latindex, SciELO, and Redalyc); and its consolidation as a global reference for non-commercial open access. However, academic recognition of this output remains a challenge, since databases historically prioritized for evaluation have been those that generate their own indicators and parameters from the so-called mainstream science, such as Scopus (Elsevier) or Web of Science (Clarivate).

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The first stages of the OLIVA project began in 2018 with the support and participation of CLACSO, SciELO, and Redalyc. In 2021, the OLIVA 1.0 database was completed, including nearly 1,000,000 articles published between 1909 and 2019. The open dataset is available in the CONICET Repository in collaboration with UNCuyo: https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/handle/11336/175850.

A second stage (OLIVA 2.0) was conducted between 2022 and 2024, in collaboration with Biblat and Latindex, by building a database of documents from journals common to these indexing systems and those already included in OLIVA 1. This stage allowed us to confirm the representativeness of Latindex and its importance for making Latin American journals visible, given that its Catalog 2.0 indexes 3,655 journals—many of which are not included in SciELO or Redalyc. Moreover, it now features a new search tool covering 628,701 articles. The results of this stage have been published in academic journals, and the dataset has been deposited in the CONICET Repository, accessible here: https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/handle/11336/252510.

The third stage of the project (OLIVA 3.0), currently underway, aims to enhance the visibility of all articles indexed in the Latindex Catalog 2.0 and to contribute to related initiatives. In this stage, we are collaborating with the team behind the Tool for the Enrichment of Academic Resources (HERA), developed at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (https://hera.sedici.unlp.edu.ar/). HERA can provide the technical bridge needed to give greater visibility to production published in diamond open-access journals.

We invite you to explore OLIVA’s resources and its latest publications:

Beigel, F., Packer, A. L., Gallardo, O. & Salatino, M. (2024). La producción científica indexada en América Latina. Diversidad disciplinar, colaboración institucional y multilingüismo en SciELO y Redalyc (1995-2018), Dados revista de ciências sociais (IESP-UERJ, Brasil) volumen 67, número 1.
- TEXT IN SPANISH: https://doi.org/10.1590/dados.2024.67.1.307
- TEXT IN ENGLISH: https://doi.org/10.1590/dados.2024.67.1.307x
Beigel, F. (2025). “Cartografías para una ciencia abierta inclusiva”, Revista Cubana de Información en Ciencias de la Salud
- TEXT IN SPANISH: https://acimed.sld.cu/index.php/acimed/article/view/3140/1358
Beigel, F. (2024). “The transformative relation between publishers and editors: research quality and academic autonomy at stake”, SocArxiv-OSF
- TEXT IN ENGLISH: https://osf.io/preprints/osf/pf89t
Beigel, M. F., Sánchez Pereyra, A., Alonso Gamboa, J. O., Salatino, J. M., Gallardo, J. O., Ferreira Gonçalves, A., Carrillo Romero, O., Flores Chávez, M. A., Durán Muñoz, E., & Arguello Mendoza, M. G. T. (2023, diciembre). OLIVA-2: las revistas iberoamericanas indexadas en Biblat y Latindex: fuentes fundamentales para conocer la producción científica global. e-Ciencias de la Información, Universidad de Costa Rica. e-ISSN: 1659-4142.
- TEXT IN SPANISH: https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/handle/11336/249262
Gallardo, O. (2022). La evolución de la producción científica en revistas indexadas en Iberoamérica. Principales tendencias y diferencias con el circuito mainstream. Papeles del Observatorio (Observatorio Iberoamericano de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Sociedad de la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos, OCTS-OEI), número 23.
- TEXT IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE: https://oei.int/publicaciones/papeles-del-observatorio-la-evolucion-de-la-produccion-cientifica-en-revistas-indexadas-en-iberoamerica

GRIP-APC project releases the open dataset with the findings of an international survey on Publishing practices and APC costs (Latin America and Africa)

admin-cecic Uncategorized 25 August, 20251 September, 2025

The results of the international survey conducted by the GRIP-APC project are now openly available in Zenodo.

Captura De Pantalla 2025 08 25 101953 1 1024x460 — The results of the project are available on Zenodo

Between 2023 and 2024, a team of international researchers, led by Fernanda Beigel (CECIC-CONICET) and funded by the Global Research institute of Paris, studied the impact of article processing charges (APCs) in four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. The results of the first phase of the project offer insight into how scientists in non-hegemonic contexts respond to transformations in the publishing ecosystem resulting from the development of open access.

The study collected primary data from 13,577 responses to an online questionnaire administered to scientific researchers in four target countries between August 2023 and February 2024. The main objective of this survey was to gather detailed information about researchers’ positions in their national fields, their publishing practices, access to funding, and their perceptions of open access and article processing charges (APCs). The research team designed the survey and translated it into Portuguese and Spanish, incorporating adaptations to each country’s scientific systems and career guidelines. Respondent confidentiality was prioritized, with all sensitive information removed from the dataset prior to publication.

The GRIP-APC study has generated a comprehensive set of resources that broaden our understanding of open access publishing in the Global South. Key results include an open database with the survey, references to articles in indexed journals on APC practices and national funding agency policies, a technical report on the context in Brazil, and preprints that preview future scientific communications by the team. Together, these contributions provide a better understanding of the ways in which researchers in Latin America and Africa are facing the new trends in scientific communication. At the same time, they offer recommendations on how to address the challenges that the commercial business models pose to equitable participation in the circulation of knowledge.

All results are openly available in the project’s Zenodo Community. Below is a list of all the resources related to the project that are openly available.

Gallardo, O., Appel, A. L., Bruccoleri Ochoa, M., GRIP-APC, T., Milia, M., Montoya, V., van Schalkwyk, F., & Beigel, F. (2025). A comparative analysis of open science, access, APC, and circulation of knowledge. A dataset from a survey of researchers in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. [Data set]. Global Research Institute of Paris. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16414892

Gallardo, O., Milia, M., Appel, A. L., GRIP-APC Team, & van Schalkwyk, F. (2025). When researchers pay to publish: Results from a survey on APCs in four countries (Version v1) [Preprint]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16463507

Appel, A. L., Milia, M., Rodriguez Medina, L., GRIP-APC Team, & Beigel, F. (2025). Saberes y prácticas de publicación en acceso abierto: un estudio comparativo sobre Brasil, Argentina y México. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16461364

Albagli, S., Appel, A. L., Pacanaro Trinca, T., Alves, L. de A., & Leite, N. (2024). Uma Análise Comparativa da Ciência Aberta, do Acesso Aberto e da Circulação de Conhecimento na América Latina e na África: Relatório Preliminar Brasil. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10694976

Beigel, F., Gallardo, O., Gomez, M. S., & Prado, F. C. (2025). Publicación en acceso abierto y costos por Article Processing Charges (APC) en Argentina. Revue D’anthropologie Des Connaissances, 19(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/140pa

Beigel, F., & Montoya, V. (2025). Perceptions, défis et prises de positions concernant l’Article Processing Charges (APC) dans la publication scientifique : une enquête auprès des chercheur·e·s du CONICET en Argentine. Social Science Information, 64(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/05390184251351425

Terlizzi, M. S., Zukerfeld, M., & Beigel, F. (2025). Open access, “piracy” and Article Processing Charges (APC) in Argentina: an informed policy for the national research funding agency. https://doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765202520241184

Soto-Herrera, D. A., Beigel, F., & Pallares Delgado, C. O. (2025). Costos de publicación en acceso abierto bajo el modelo APC: Argentina y Colombia. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rib.v48n1e357790

CECIC organizes a workshop on inclusive Open Science at the Einstein Center for Digital Future in Berlin

admin-cecic Uncategorized 4 July, 202510 July, 2025

CECIC is organizing the Workshop for an Inclusive Open Science at the Einstein Center for Digital Future, in collaboration with the Berlin University Alliance and the Berlin Center for Global Engagement. The event will take place on July 14, 2025. The program consists of four panels featuring over 15 speakers from universities in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Ukraine, South Africa, Argentina, the Netherlands, Brazil, Colombia, and Canada.

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Currently, several studies on the balance of the 20 years of the Budapest Open Access Initiative have been highlighting its intentions regarding scientific democratization; However, they have also pointed out various complexities. Indeed, among other things, the interests of the academic publishing sector have been perpetuated, in particular those related to the so-called “high-impact” journals that circulate in the mainstream, continue to struggle to sustain certain models of privatist financing via onerous payments. On the other hand, there is also a growing phenomenon in journals originally supported by open access, which have been demanding increasingly high fees for article processing charges (APCs), thus eclipsing the achievements of the open access movement.

However, it is known that in all regions it has been strongly assuming a boost related to the development of open digital research infrastructure. Across regions, the diverse momentum related to the development of open digital research infrastructure is observed. Europe and Latin America have strong initiatives and/or continental networks in terms of their development, consolidating the focus on knowledge as a public good. In the United States, the federal government was one of the most important drivers of the practice of open science, although the current situation is changing priorities. There is a growing interest on the part of regional and sub-regional bodies in fostering open science efforts along with the transformation towards responsible research assessment.

Based on all this, this workshop seeks to reflect on the paths towards current open science. To this end, 4 panels have been designed under face-to-face and virtual mode, where more than 15 exhibitors from different universities in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Ukraine, South Africa, Argentina, the Netherlands, Brazil, Colombia and Canada will participate. The program is shared below:

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Annual Workshop CECIC “Convergences between bibliometrics and prosopography: coverage studies and asymmetries in the circulation of knowledge” – November 11 and 12

admin-cecic Uncategorized 4 November, 20245 November, 2024

The CECIC Workshop “Convergences between bibliometrics and prosopography: coverage studies and asymmetries in the circulation of knowledge” will be held on November 11 and 12 at the Talampaya Salle of the CCT Mendoza between 9:30 am and 5:30 pm. It aims to discuss the results of the international research projects conducted by CECIC during 2023 and 2024: the international survey of publication practices and APC costs; the PRISA-AUF project on Bibliometrics and Prosopography. CECIC researchers from different provinces (San Juan, Córdoba, Buenos Aires and Misiones) will participate, as well as teams from other countries (Quebec-Canada, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Mexico).

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The scientific meeting will be organized in 4 thematic axes:

Inclusiveness and exclusiveness in Open Science
Prosopography, bibliometrics and evaluation policies
Citation and publishing practices
Non-hegemonic publishing circuits and gender asymmetries

Among the speakers who will take part in the Workshop are: Natalia Aguirre-Ligüera (Universidad de la República), Victor Algañaraz (Universidad Nacional de San Juan), Denis Baranger (Universidad Nacional de Misiones), Fernanda Beigel (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Cuyo), Pierre Benz (University of Montreal), Lucía Céspedes (Érudit/University of Montreal), Alysson Fernandes Mazoni (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), Exequiel Fontans (Universidad de la República), Osvaldo Gallardo (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Cuyo), Diego Kozlowski (University of Montreal), Erwin Humberto Krauskopf Poblete (University of the Americas), Vincent Larivière (University of Montreal), Malena Méndez Isla (University of Montreal), Víctor Montoya (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero), Carolina Pradier (University of Montreal), Maximiliano Salatino (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Cuyo), Natsumi Solange Shokida (University of Montreal).

The program and registration for virtual or on-site participation can be made below.

Inscripcion2 1 — REGISTRATION FOR
VIRTUAL OR FACE-TO-FACE PARTICIPATION

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