La comunicación científica en América Latina es abierta, colaborativa y no comercial. Desafíos para las revistas.

Latin America, where research and journals that publish research results, are both activities that are mainly publicly-funded,is the region of the world with the greatest adoption of open access, to scientific journals, highlighting scholarly-led regionalinitiatives such as Latindex, SciELO, Redalyc, which are complemented by national and institutional open access journal portals,all collaborative non-commercial initiatives. In this article, and based on CLACSO's experience in the region and its participationin international debates on the future of open access scholarly communications, views are shared on some of the challenges thatthis collaborative open access model poses to journals published in countries of Latin America. As is the case of open sciencerequirements for journals, the need to have open access indicators so that evaluation processes can assess the contributions fromresearch output published in journals within the region, and the urgency to strengthen collaborative non-commercial models tomanage open access and its indicators