Diagnosis and Roadmap for an Open Science Policy in Argentina

In November 2022, the Open Science Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Science in Argentina released  its “Diagnosis and Guidelines for an Open Science Policy in Argentina”. The report criticizes the extension of the APC model, “because it implies a growing disparity between researchers and/or their institutions that can afford APCs with respect to of the rest. Likewise, the generalization of the payment of APC is promoting a growing commodification of journals, with the distortions that this can cause in science evaluation processes.” The key role of CONICET, host to ISSN Argentina, in the assessment of researchers’ careers needs to evolve and incorporate in the process a minimum percentage of publications deposited in open access repositories. Publishing in diamond-access Argentinean journals that are indexed and/or belong to the Basic Nucleus of Argentine Journals (CAICyT) should be valued.