Scholarly Publishing, Freedom of Information and Academic Self-Determination: The UNAM-Els

44 Mexican open access academic journals were transferred from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to Elsevier for production and hosting on February 1, 2015. The dataset likely contains documents and analysis related to the UNAM-Elsevier contract DGAJ-DPI-39-081114-241. It was authored by Ernesto Priego of City, University of London.

Use Cases

• Analyze contract terms and their implications for academic self-determination based on the described agreement.
• Study the transfer of journal management from a public university to a commercial publisher based on the described case.
• Research trends in open access publishing agreements within Latin American institutions based on the UNAM case.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, documented contract (UNAM-Elsevier contract DGAJ-DPI-39-081114-241) involving 44 journals.
• Provides a concrete case study for analyzing open access and academic publishing dynamics.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ernesto Priego, City, University of London

Collection Method

Likely compiled from public documents and analysis related to the UNAM-Elsevier agreement.

Time Range

Centered on events from 2015.

Geography

Mexico, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)