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Abstract
<p>Access to scientific information constitutes an essential element
in accelerating the implementation of new knowledge, fostering innovation,
and contributing to the quality of research (European Commission,
2007; Houghton et al., 2009); as well as the performance of assessment
studies supporting the implementation of policies related to science,
technology, and innovation.</p> <p>Scientific journals have been
the most frequent channel used by the scientific and academic community
for information release (SQW-Limited, 2003); but it must be born
in mind that “the advances in information and communication
technologies are adversely affecting the traditional models of scientific
communication changing in a radical way the capacities of reproduction,
distribution, control, and publication of the information”
(Houghton, et. al., 2009).</p> <p><br /> In this regard, the changes
experienced in the last few years by the system of scientific communication,
with the emergence and rapid development of the open access initiative
that promotes free access without barriers to the scientific knowledge,
cannot be ignored (Gómez Dueñas, 2005; Melero, 2005).
Open access helps to increase the generation of new knowledge by
facilitating on-line access to information. It represents a significant
change from the qualitative and quantitative point of view in relation
to the traditional model of scientific communication (Alonso, Subirats
and Martínez Conder, 2008; Guédon, 2006; Harnad,
2003; Keefer, 2007; Weitzel, 2005; Yiotis, 2005). The strategies
and interoperability model proposed in the following article offer
the possibility of using different routes and architectures for building
services that contribute to a better organization and visibility
of the content produced by the scientific and academic institutions
of a territory or country.</p>
