• El Paisaje Actual de Publicaciones Académicas: una Visión Emergente desde el Sur Global 

      Debat, Humberto Julio (Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2023-04)
      Una gran parte del sistema de publicaciones académicas tradicional es desigual, poco confiable, excluyente, discriminatorio, sesgado, depredador, insostenible y opaco [1]. Aproximadamente el 70 % de los artículos de ...
    • Plan S en América Latina: una nota de precaución 

      Debat, Humberto Julio; Babini, Dominique (Centro de Estudios sobre Ciencia Desarrollo y Educación Superior, Argentina, 2020-06)
      El Plan S es una iniciativa de un consorcio europeo de financiadores de investigación orientada a exigir la publicación en acceso abierto de los resultados de la investigación financiados por fondos públicos o privados. ...
    • Plan S in Latin America: a precautionary note 

      Debat, Humberto Julio; Babini, Dominique (Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing, 2020-02-07)
      Background: Latin America has historically led a vital and open access movement andleads the worldwide region with the adoption of wider open access practices. Argentina has expressed its commitment to join Plan S, an ...
    • Plan S: take Latin America’s long experience on board 

      Debat, Humberto Julio; Babini, Dominique (Nature Research, 2019-09-24)
      We share the spirit of Plan S to achieve full open access to scholarly publications (see go.nature.com/2hszsaf), but we disagree with its implementation guidelines. The plan’s design ignores more than 20 years of widespread ...
    • Preprints are good for science and good for the public 

      Sarabipour, Sarvenaz; Wissink, Erin M.; Burgess, Steven J.; Hensel, Zach; Debat, Humberto Julio; Emmott, Edward; Akay, Alper; Akdemir, Kadir C.; Schwessinger, Benjamin (Nature Research, 2018-08-29)
      We disagree with Tom Sheldon’s contention that the preprint ecosystem can present a challenge to accurate and timely journalism (Nature 559, 445; 2018). Restricting when or how preprints are released risks suppressing ...
    • The future of academic publishing 

      Ahmed, Abubakari; Al-Khatib, Aceil; Boum II, Yap; Debat, Humberto Julio; Gurmendi Dunkelberg, Alonso; Janicke Hinchliffe, Lisa; Jarrad, Frith; Mastroianni, Adam; Mineault, Patrick; Pennington, Charlotte R.; Pruszynski, J. Andrew (Nature Research, 2023-07-13)
      Academic publishing is the backbone of science dissemination — but is the current system fit for purpose? We asked a diverse group of scientists to comment on the future of publishing. They discuss systemic issues, ...