Health emergency COVID-19, the road to accelerate open access

Abstract

As of December 18, 2020, the countries that occupy the first places in deaths from Covid-19 are Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, so it is urgent to access information from reliable sources without restrictions, this being a matter of global urgency and where open access also known as Open Access becomes even more relevant. Therefore, the hypothesis presented in this essay is whether "there is a relationship between the positive impact of open access and the generation of information on the issue of the covid-19 emergency", the topics addressed the impact of COVID-19 in 4 of the most affected countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and the accelerated process of research and publication. This essay was carried out in documentary form, allowing to respect the "stay at home" indications. information was consulted, compiled and selected virtually, using information search tools in metasearch engines and databases among others, finding recent news and publications from various reliable sources, among the main sources of consultation were selected organizations such as UNESCO, CLACSO, Organizations of American States, United Nations, among others, and editorial institutions were consulted in newspaper libraries, among which stand out Redalyc, Latindex and SciELO, Microsoft Academic and Google Scholar search engines, which allowed us to select and identify as main results that the number of publications on the topic of covid-19 doubled with an average of 15 days, and also identified that in some countries laws and policies on open access were created, which allowed us to find the basic answer that this covid-19 emergency is the path that has accelerated open access in several countries, thus making more information, knowledge and research available.