Open Access Data Policies in Latin America: Analysis and Challenges

Globally, scholarly communication is in transition to maximize the openness of publicly funded data and research results. To this end, it is essential to develop regulations to support, expand and implement open data actions. Based on the above, the objective of this research is to analyze the regulations that Latin American countries have developed to implement openness, circulation, usability and reproducibility of publicly funded research data within the framework of legality. The methodology for this study is carried out with a mixed research, and to verify the assumptions made, a bibliographic review, content monitoring in official Web portals of governments, universities and libraries of the region, subscription to networks, groups in the subject of study, and the State Repository of Open Data Policies are implemented. The results obtained indicate that six Latin American countries have developed policies for open research data. A general conclusion is that scholarly communication is moving towards the opening of research data as an action within the framework of legality in order to enhance its effectiveness and reproducibility.