Current status of Diamond Open Access journals in Peru: an overview of open science practices; [Situação atual das revistas Acesso Aberto Diamante no Peru: uma visão geral das práticas de ciência aberta]

Alhuay-Quispe J. · Biblios (2025) · DOI: 10.5195/biblios.2025.1165

Resumen

Objective. This article aims to assess and describe the policy editorial characteristics and open science practices by Peruvian scientific journals published under the diamond open access model, available in electronic format. Method. Descriptive study based on a sample of 223 journals qualified and abstracted in SciELO Peru, Latindex 2.0, DOAJ and MIAR. Results. Results show that Social and Medical Science areas are best represented, with bi-annual and triannual frequency, respectively. Private sector of publishers outnumbers public ones with the highest concentration in Lima as a publication place. Conclusions. Peruvian journals are still beginning to adopt some open science policies and practices, such as repository or self-archiving policies, digital preservation policies, and open citations practices. Based on background research, this paper reports first results about diamond publishing and scholarly electronic journals published in Peru. © The articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 United States License.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos