In 2006, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) endorsed the Berlin Declaration, which promotes open access to all digital content resulting from the academic, scientific, and cultural activities carried out by the university, published by its departments and institutes, as well as to all content over which it holds ownership, patrimonial rights, or authorization from the authors. Norteamérica, the academic journal of the Center for Research on North America (CISAN) at UNAM, provides immediate open access to all its content under the principle that making research freely available to the public contributes to the global exchange of knowledge.

The contents of Norteamérica are available free of charge to all audiences. The journal aligns with the open access initiative, adhering to Creative Commons policies (with attribution and non-commercial rights, specifically under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license). Norteamérica does not charge or pay authors any fees for the evaluation, correction, editing, publication, or distribution of their articles. The journal is committed to disseminating published works through open access indexing services and various repositories that utilize the Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

Users are permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of articles in this journal, provided the use is for academic purposes and the original source of publication is properly cited, in accordance with the Creative Commons CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial) license. This ensures that the research remains accessible while respecting the rights of authors and the non-commercial nature of the journal’s mission.