Common resources for nursing information: Infrastructures for the daily practice of care

Abstract

This paper analyzes the role of Mexican open access nursing journals via the diamond access model as information infrastructures for healthcare. Using the framework of information commons, the category of information commons in nursing is proposed to characterize these publications, which integrate and disseminate a body of theoretical, technical, and ethical knowledge produced within the national context. It describes how the published articles support clinical practice, teaching, and research, and allow the professional community to come together around the socialization of knowledge through processes of authorship, peer review, critical reading, and application in practice. Furthermore, it discusses the tension between the social value of these journals and scientific evaluation systems that privilege high-impact commercial publications, thus limiting their recognition and inclusion in science and technology policies. Finally, since these journals are common resources of information in nursing, it is recognized that their collective care must be assumed, and that the editorial and institutional conditions that support them must be strengthened, in order to manage and consolidate the disciplinary corpus of Mexican nursing, and contribute to the improvement of quality in the daily practice of care.