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Science as a public good requires that the results of research be recorded and communicated to all. At the present time, there are changes in the process of scientific communication, with the emergence of new instances of production, registration and dissemination of scientific knowledge, with the advent in particular of the web, corroborating to disintermediation in the structure of the research flow. The purpose of this paper is to present a reflection on the insertion of Latin America in the adoption of the Open Access Movement with its cultural diversity - 20 countries, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela, two dependencies, French Guiana and Puerto Rico; linguistic differences - Spanish, Portuguese and French, the result of European colonization and serious socio-economic and political issues. |