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Since 2019, the Latin American Forum for Research Assessment (FOLEC, in Spanish, ) has been promoting a transformation in research assessment in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Declaration of Principles (CLACSO 2022), which has more than 270 institutional and individual signatories, stated ¡°the need to incorporate new research assessment practices that encourage open access in diamond journals and repositories, since they do not exclude authors for economic reasons, and allow peer review to focus more on the quality of the research than on the journal where it is published¡±.

The Declaration also promotes the creation and use of databases which reflect both the production disseminated in international repositories as well as that which is included in regional and local databases, while encouraging the recognition and reward of multilingualism in publications. Multilingualism is seen to favour the development of socially relevant research and contribute to sustaining cultural diversity.

Consejo Latinamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), an international non-governmental institution with UNESCO associate status, brings together more than 856 research and postgraduate centres in 55 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and other continents. The organization has a long trajectory in the promotion and enforcement of Diamond open access (without charges to authors) in the region: network institutions publish approximately 400 journals and more than 3,000 books in open access with peer-review and open licences. In alliance with Redalyc-AmeliCA, CLACSO publishes a joint collection of 1,025 Social Science and Humanities quality journals in Diamond open access. CLACSO¡¯s research assessment recognizes and rewards that, at least, 30% of CLACSO¡¯s working groups members (a total of 87 with 4,584 participants from 44 countries) are social movements, policy-makers, advocacy leaders and/or non-governmental organizations. Thus, the network encourages vigorous social engagement with knowledge production and circulation, through different forms of participatory science.