%0 Journal Article %A Ana María Cetto %I Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas %D 2015 %G English %G Spanish %T Scientific journals in Latin America and the Open Access (OA) %J Revista Espacio I+D. Innovación más Desarrollo %V IV %N 7 %U http://www.espacioimasd.unach.mx/articulos/num7/Las_revistas_cientificas_en_America_Latina_y_el_Acceso_Abierto.php %X The Open Access movement (OA), is a movement that occurred just over 10 years ago with the signing of the first declaration in Budapest, followed in 2003 by those in Bethesda and Berlin. The emergence of this movement in Europe and North America is mainly due to the increase in the cost of research journals, which suffered the brunt of “journal aggregator” companies that began to obtain ownership of multiple journals and hence acquire control and decision over their prices. This led academics, researchers and university libraries from the first world to have problems in acquiring them, since the cost of subscriptions multiplied exponentially.