Justification Memorandum for a South American Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge.
establish that all knowledge is the result of a collective effort must be free for all is a fundamental commitment to continental social payoff, but also a perfectly practical and sustainable option. That is what is argued in this text.
free access may be understood as a comprehensive source of human knowledge and cultural heritage, refereed and approved by the intellectual community, and provision of high society in an expeditious manner, large and especially not the ignorant peche 1.
In most Western societies prevailing economic system that prevents free access to knowledge in these terms. A system that has been built so far international law for the so-called intellectual property. "
That economic system demand huge amounts of foreign currency from their taxpayers forced: the nation state. But the worst thing is that its very existence undermines the solidarity principles of public education, established in the national constitutions of those same states, and encourages ignorance of non-cooperation between the academic communities of these nations.
For example, rather than allow free access to their intellectual contributions, researchers from public institutions transfer their copyright and thereby control the dissemination of these contributions, transnational publishers then chest to authors and their colleagues and neighbors for access to this knowledge, often corrected and improved by the communities themselves.
Researchers are practically forced to participate in this extraordinary business as traditional mechanisms of evaluation of scholarly productivity and research are almost entirely rooted systems of publications related to publishing houses closing the access to this knowledge for economic reasons.
To correct this situation and eliminate its harmful effects sufficient a political statement at the highest level stating that all knowledge result of a collective effort should be freely available to all without imposing limitations that special reasons of sovereignty and national security.
With this every public academic community in each country could implement the actions necessary to ensure free access to knowledge. Actions which would lead to major economic changes since, as said, much of the current system and is supported by the efforts and resources of the academic community service.
1 Berlin Declaration http://www.geotropico.org/1_2_Documentos_Berlin.html http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlin_declaration.pdf
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Jacinto Dávila. Universidad de Los Andes. Venezuela
