Las publicaciones oficiales de la administración pública de Bogotá, Colombia

This book chapter describes a part of the results of the research "Diagnosis of open access from the web to the official publications of the public administration of Bogotá, Colombia", which aimed to strengthen transparency and confidence in public management from the identification of the main factors and difficulties that are presented when searching and access in an open way from the web to the official publications produced by the governmental institutions of Bogotá. Therefore, the research applied a qualitative methodology of exploratory scope; Compiled and produced information that allowed to analyze and explain what is an official publication, its production, edition, publication and bibliographic control during the Public Administration of Bogota from 2008 to 2012. The research concludes that the city government lacks a regulated definition which establishes the characteristics of form and content of official publications. This definition would allow to the different public administrations to base their planning, execution, monitoring, evaluation and accountability processes in a documentary format with adequate editorial and bibliographic standardization characteristics that guarantee the authenticity, integrity and validity of the content. Bogotá's official publishing system is centralized, focuses its publishing processes on generating publications mainly on paper, it does not have strategic objectives oriented to the publication in web environments and is not part of an open access policy.