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In the field of Health Sciences, one of the most important and most global consideration when retrieving information is PubMed. One interesting features of this system is to provide information of scientific journals highly regarded worldwide. To do this, they must meet requirements indexing, among others, to be validated by evaluation committees. While science biomedical traditions are rooted in the process of publication, and the core of scientific literature focuses on two or three large publishing groups, in the course of the recent years, the publication of science runs a kind of liberation from the phenomenon of Open Access. In this sense, it aims to discuss the incorporation of a PubMed F1000 to through two resources: F1000 Prime to re-evaluate the quality of items and establish a ranking as assessed by its reviewers, and F1000 Research, self-defined as a Open Access journal, providing immediate publication of review articles post publication peer. In this regard, some considerations and invite reflection points debate.

The objective of this article was to describe the experience of the implementation of the Open Journal System (OJS) as a management system for the Sapientiae journal of the Óscar Ribas University (UÓR) in Luanda, Angola. Its implementation was carried out in 2017 together with a series of actions leading to the proper management of the OJS by the management, teachers and researchers of the UÓR. The methodological approach followed is descriptive-documentary, based on documentary evidence during the implementation of the OJS. The results obtained show the relevance of the implementation of the OJS in the different Angolan Higher Education Institutions, as an indispensable tool for the improvement of the professional training process, publication of research results and internationalization of the work carried out in the scientific domains. and technological.

The work will focus on the advantages of digital publishing, aspects related to the quality and economic sustainability of open access journals will be presented. The presentation will show the experience of the National University of Cordoba from the release of "Portal Journals UNC." Training and advisory services offered to the editors since the "Office Open Knowledge" will be mentioned.

This presentation includes conceptual framework for the Open Access (OA) movement, its benefits, characteristics of open access journals and institutional repositories, open access policies and research studies about development of OA in Latin America and Argentina.