Acceso abierto: Posibilidades y retos epistemológicos para las publicaciones científicas en la red

Abstract

The different proposals for Open Access to scientific publishing on the Internet offer undeniable advantages for the scientific practices of communication, publishing, dissemination and validation of scientific results. However, neither these practical advantages, nor the economical and moral reasons that are usually alleged to justify the Open Access movement, seem to be enough to strengthen and extend this system to the whole scientific community. Those reasons might be supplemented, from a philosophical perspective, by contemplating the epistemological potential of Open Access and its practical possibilities for an Open Peer-Review system. This study will help us consider which possibilities can be explored and exploited within the Open Access Movement in order to unify proposals and methodologies and, by means of these, provide a valuable epistemological alternative to the current commercial toll-access system.