This research analyze scientific journals from Latin American countries.The specific goals are: a) identify Open Access magazines indexed by ISI-Thompson Reuters and Sciverse Scopus; b) describe the institutional aspects of these journals; and c) identify its technical features. The methodological approach used is exploratory, with documental analysis and descriptive statistics. The data was collected through forms with information from the journals magazines and Ulrich. This research is based on 556 titles, from 11 countries, indexed by at least one of the databases. The results show that 98% of the journals are open access and most of them are from Brazil (45%), followed by Chile and Mexico, with 13.6% each. Universities are responsible for 45% of the titles, followed by Associations, with 34.7%, most of them in Medicine. Scielo Platform is used by 69% (370) of the titles. The conclusion is the very high incidence of quality journals in Open Access in Latin America is due to two main factors associated: the work of scientific comunities from universities and associations and the wide use of Scielo.
Open access; Scientific journals; Scientific communication
