Digital Sovereignty in Times of Crisis: The Vital Role of Regional Open Access Infrastructures in Latin America (English Translated Version)

This article analyzes digital sovereignty in Latin America in the face of the dominance of Global North scientific communication infrastructures. It argues that the DOI persistent identifier system, managed by Crossref, is not a neutral artifact but a strategic project designed to preserve commercial control over intellectual property. This architecture imposes a "suffocating burden" on the region—both through the drain of public funds via Article Processing Charges (APCs) and an infrastructural fee whereby Diamond Open Access journals subsidize the very infrastructure that marginalizes them. In response to the funding crisis and the threat of algorithmic invisibility posed by artificial intelligence, the paper proposes a shift from sovereignty over content to sovereignty over infrastructure—strengthening regional networks such as SciELO, Redalyc, and Latindex, adopting open protocols like ARK, and reforming academic evaluation systems to decouple prestige from commercial metrics.