Herrmann-Lunecke MG, Inzulza-Contardo J

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ABSTRACT

This research analyzes the challenges of open access of scientific journals of urbanism, architecture, design and art in Chile. Based on an analysis of the content of the web pages of the journals and the application of a survey to their editors, the access and publication formats, use of journal management systems, Creative Commons licenses, copyright policies, use of plagiarism detection software and financing models are examined in detail. The results show that all academic journals in the field of urbanism, architecture, design and art in Chile are published by nonprofit universities, and declare themselves as “open access”, with their articles being available free of charge through their web pages, institutional repositories and/or SciELO, Latindex and RedALyC. Likewise, most of the journals use Creative Commons licenses and recently the Open Journal System. However, more than half of the journals still use restrictive copyrights or do not have explicit editorial policies in this regard, which limits the open access of their manuscripts. Other problems for the open access are the lack of "sustainable financing models" and the preference of Latin American authors for publishing in high impact international journals in English, usually edited by commercial publishers without open access. These problems are important challenges that require new editorial strategies, in order to ensure that high-quality Latin American research is available in an open access format to the entire academic community.