Salud Colectiva

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Open access model

Openness/accessibility	Access to the contents published in Salud Colectiva is open and free of charge, in full text and without embargo periods.
Article processing charge (APC)	Salud Colectiva does not charge for the editorial processing of articles. All editing, publishing and distribution costs are financed by the Instituto de Salud Colectiva of the Universidad Nacional de Lanús.
Copyright policies	The author retains unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights (see DOAJ Best Practice)
Self-archiving policies	All versions of the article (submitted version, accepted version and published version) can be deposited in institutional repositories, blogs, or any other electronic media, without embargo periods (see Sherpa/Romeo).
Creative Commons	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Salud Colectiva maintains a commitment to the policies of Open Access to scientific information, as it considers that both scientific publications as well as research projects funded by public resources should circulate freely without restrictions.

Since its release in 1999, UNESCO's Declaration on Science and the Use of Scientific Knowledge has advocated the “free flow of information” and “equal access to science.” The numerous declarations made thereafter and the increasing support of authors, editors, scientific publications and academic institutions have built the framework for the development of a movement for Open Access to scientific production.

Diverse categories have emerged under the banner of the Open Access movement, for example the Open Access “Hybrid” Model: before making the contents freely available, an embargo period is imposed,   during which access to those articles is granted only via a traditional subscription (pay-per-view). Another example is the Article Processing Charge model, in which the cost of editorial production is transferred to the authors, who must also pay an extra amount to place the content in Open Access.

Salud Colectiva ratifies the Open Access model in which scientific publications are made freely available in full text online, with no embargo periods and with no publication costs transferred to the authors. This policy seeks to dismantle the economic barriers that have created inequalities in the access both to information and to the ability to publish research results.

For this reason, Salud Colectiva does not charge authors for the editing process and the publication of their articles in Spanish, nor for their later translation and publication in English, and is committed to making the articles available in Open Access indexing services and in the various online repositories that use Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) (See Indexing Services).

All of the material included in Salud Colectiva is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), according to which the authors retain authorship rights and others are permitted to copy and distribute the work, so long as the original authorship is recognized and the work is not used for commercial purposes. For more information regarding Creative Commons licenses please see their website.

People are allowed and encouraged to share the published works. Salud Colectiva does not retain the copyright of the articles; this provides authors access to the final published versions both in Spanish and in English so they may include them in institutional repositories, personal blogs or any other electronic media, with the sole condition that they mention the original source of publication, in this case Salud Colectiva, under the following terms:

• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Open access statements

Declaration on Science and the Use of Scientific Knowledge
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
World Conference on Science
Budapest 1999

Equal access to science is not only a social and ethical requirement for human development, but also essential for realizing the full potential of scientific communities worldwide and for orienting scientific progress towards meeting the needs of humankind.

Building the Information Society: A Global Challenge in the New Millenium
United Nations
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
May 12, 2004

Information in the public domain should be easily accessible to support the Information Society, and protected from misappropriation. Public institutions such as libraries and archives, museums, cultural collections and other community-based access points should be strengthened so as to promote the preservation of documentary records and free and equitable access to information.

Tunis Agenda for the Information Society
United Nations
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
June 28, 2006

[We commit to] supporting educational, scientific, and cultural institutions, including libraries, archives and museums, in their role of developing, providing equitable, open and affordable access to, and preserving diverse and varied content, including in digital form, to support informal and formal education, research and innovation; and in particular supporting libraries in their public-service role of providing free and equitable access to information.

Budapest Open Access Initiative
Budapest 2003

We call on all interested institutions and individuals to help open up access to the rest of this literature and remove the barriers, especially the price barriers, that stand in the way. The more who join the effort to advance this cause, the sooner we will all enjoy the benefits of open access.

Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
Bethesda 2003

We believe that open access will be an essential component of scientific publishing in the future and that works reporting the results of current scientific research should be as openly accessible and freely useable as possible. Libraries and publishers should make every effort to hasten this transition in a fashion that does not disrupt the orderly dissemination of scientific information.

Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities
Max Planck Society
Berlín 2003

New possibilities of knowledge dissemination not only through the classical form but also and increasingly through the open access paradigm via the Internet have to be supported. We define open access as a comprehensive source of human knowledge and cultural heritage that has been approved by the scientific community.

Declaration of Salvador on Open Access: The Developing World Perspective
International Seminar on Open Access for Developing Countries
Ninth World Congress on Health Information and Libraries  (ICML9)
Seventh Regional Congress of Information in Health Sciences (CRICS7)
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 2005

We urge governments to make Open Access a high priority in science policies including: requiring that publicly funded research is made available through Open Access; considering the cost of publication as part of the cost of research; strengthening the local OA journals.

Declaración sobre Acceso Abierto (Declaration on Open Access)
Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal (REDALYC)
Toluca, México 2007

Redalyc.org encourages to transform the ways of scientific communication under Open Access with a main theme: unrestricted scientific communication improves scientific development, economy and the citizenry’s quality of life in Ibero-American countries and the whole world. Thus as stated in Budapest declaration: “We invite governments, universities, libraries, journal editors, publishers, foundations, learned societies, professional associations, and individual scholars who share our vision to join us in the task of removing the barriers to open access and building a future in which research and education in every part of the world are that much more free to flourish.”