Abstract

SALA, Hernán E.  and  NUNEZ POLCHER, Pablo N.. Free Software and Open Access: two ways of technology transfer. Rev. iberoam. cienc. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2014, vol.9, n.26, pp.115-128. ISSN 1850-0013.

This work offers a rough chronology that spans from the beginnings of the Free Software (FS) movement up to the formalization and recent adoption of the Open Access (OA) initiative as a new editorial criterion. As it is of public knowledge, or as it probably should be, OA has been increasingly adopted in the last decade by all sorts of digital content providers, covering diverse aspects such as works of science, technology and art. We have analyzed the different modalities of OA, considered its advantages and limitations, and traced a basic parallelism between the causes that drive and support the adoption of FS and OA in different areas, particularly in academic and educational communities. On the other hand, we have analyzed the arguments that postulate the adoption of OA as an ethical duty when publishing work produced in universities, institutes and agencies that are financed with public funds. Finally, we considered the advantages of the use of FS in the public administration.

Keywords : Transferencia de tecnología; Publicación científica; Information and development; Technology transfer; Scientific publications.

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