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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F4E79"><a href="http://www.amelica.org/en/index.php/2019/01/10/amelica-vs-plan-s-mismo-objetivo-dos-estrategias-distintas-para-lograr-el-acceso-abierto/">http://www.amelica.org/en/index.php/2019/01/10/amelica-vs-plan-s-mismo-objetivo-dos-estrategias-distintas-para-lograr-el-acceso-abierto/</a>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">On 4 September 2018, a group of national research funding organizations, with the support of the European Commission and the European Research Council (ERC), announced the launch of <a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/" target="_black"><span style="color:#1252B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">COAlition
 S</span></a>, an initiative to make full and immediate Open Access (OA) to research publications a reality. It is built around <a href="https://www.coalition-s.org/about/" target="_black"><span style="color:#1252B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Plan
 S</span></a>, which consists of one target and 10 principles <a href="http://www.amelica.org/en/index.php/2019/01/10/amelica-vs-plan-s-mismo-objetivo-dos-estrategias-distintas-para-lograr-el-acceso-abierto/#bibliografia"><span style="color:#1252B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">(Science
 Europe, 2019).</span></a> The target is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">"By 2020 scientific publications that result from research funded by public grants provided by participating national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published
 in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms. "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">At the same time but in another region of the world <a href="http://www.amelica.org/en/" target="_black"><span style="color:#1252B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">AmeliCA</span></a> was
 brewing, <a href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01816693v1" target="_black"><span style="color:#1252B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">the extension of REDALYC's philosophy, knowledge and technology to the Global South</span></a> <a href="http://www.amelica.org/en/index.php/2019/01/10/amelica-vs-plan-s-mismo-objetivo-dos-estrategias-distintas-para-lograr-el-acceso-abierto/#bibliografia"><span style="color:#1252B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">(Becerril-Garcia
 & Aguado-Lopez, 2018).</span></a> AmeliCA is a multi-institutional community-driven initiative supported by <a href="https://es.unesco.org/" target="_black"><span style="color:#1252B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">UNESCO</span></a> that
 arises in response to the international, regional, national and institutional contexts of Open Access, which seeks a collaborative, sustainable, protected and non-commercial solution for Open Knowledge in Latin America and the Global South <a href="http://www.amelica.org/en/index.php/2019/01/10/amelica-vs-plan-s-mismo-objetivo-dos-estrategias-distintas-para-lograr-el-acceso-abierto/#bibliografia"><span style="color:#1252B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">(AmeliCA,
 2018).</span></a> This <em><span style="font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">institution of </span></em><i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Commons</span></i> was launched at the Conference
 of CLACSO on November 21, 2018, in the "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iVHxu9TjWw" target="_black"><span style="color:#1252B2;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">UNESCO Special Forum: Democratization of academic knowledge.
 The challenges for open access to knowledge. "</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif">Firstly, both initiatives have a common goal: to make Open Access a reality. However, Plan S and AmeliCA imply two very different visions and two conceptualizations on the circulation of
 scientific knowledge. What is the main difference between them? How is it possible that, arising almost simultaneously and with the same goal, some of their proposed strategies are counterposed?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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