Writing to be cited or really to be read: towards the dynamics of open-access publishing Escribir para ser citados o para ser leídos: hacia la dinámica del acceso abierto

摘要

Advances made to date regarding information technology (IT) tools has led to the diversification of opportunities to enablecommunicating research results or producing new knowledge in a precise, reproducible and complete manner. Nevertheless, commercialising knowledge through for-profit commercial platforms and imposing quality criteria, mainly based on theamount of citations per document (i.e. impact factor), has made accessing scientific information into a complex process,causing a loss of pleasure regarding writing and the real objective of doing so as academics. This has led to informationnot being able to be used in such a way that it can really cause a positive impact on those communities for which researchprojects are/have been forged. On the contrary, this has simply encouraged the need to become published so as to become cited within a scientific circle whose background has often consisted of the premise of responding to a system ofrecognition and economic stimuli established by science, technology and innovation policies as imposed in many countries,not just in Latin America.