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SciELO
ProducerFAPESP - BIREME (Brazil)
LanguagesEnglish, Portuguese, Spanish
Access
CostFree
Coverage
DisciplinesMultidisciplinary
Record depthIndex, abstract & full-text
Format coverageAcademic journalarticles
Geospatial coverageLatin America,Iberian Peninsula,South Africa
No.of records573,525[1]
Links
Websitescielo.org

SciELO(ScientificElectronicLibraryOnline) is abibliographic database,digital library,and cooperativeelectronic publishingmodel ofopen access journals.SciELO was created to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries and provides an efficient way to increase visibility and access to scientific literature.[2]Originally established inBrazilin 1997, today there are 16 countries in the SciELO network and its journal collections:Argentina,Bolivia,Brazil,Chile,Colombia,Costa Rica,Cuba,Ecuador,Mexico,Paraguay,Peru,Portugal,South Africa,Spain,Uruguay,andVenezuela.[3]

SciELO was initially supported by theSão Paulo Research Foundation(FAPESP) and the BrazilianNational Council for Scientific and Technological Development(CNPq), along with theLatin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information(BIREME). SciELO provides a portal that integrates and provides access to all of the SciELO network sites. Users can search across all SciELO collections or limit the search by a single country collection, or browse by subject area, publisher, or journal title.

Database and projects

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By October 2015 the database contained:

  • 1,249 journals
  • 39,651 issues (journal numbers)
  • 573,525 research articles
  • 13,005,080 citations (sum of the number of items in each article's reference list)

from different countries, universally accessible for freeopen access,in full-text format.[4]The SciELO Project's stated aims are to "envisage the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic format". All journals are published by a special software suite which implements a scientific electronic virtual library accessed via several mechanisms, including a table of titles in alphabetic and subject list, subject and authorindexesand asearch engine.

History

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Project's launch timeline:[5]

  • 1997: Beginning of the development of SciELO as aFAPESPsupported project in partnership withBIREME.
  • 1998: SciELO goes live.
  • 1998: Chile's national research agencyCONICYTasks to be considered as a pilot project outside of Brazil.[6]
  • 1999-2000:Chilejoined as a regional collection, project supported byCONICYT.
  • 2002: theCNPqalso began its support for SciELO.
  • 2005:Argentinajoined as a regional collection, project supported byCONICET
  • 2009:South Africajoined as a regional collection, project supported byASSAf.
  • 2012: the SciELO Books project is launched.
  • 2013: the SciELO Citation Index is integrated intoThomson Reuters'Web of Knowledge(WoS), covering about 650 journals total, 300 more than the 350 already in the WoS.[7]
  • 2017 SciELO announced that they were setting up apreprintsserver – SciELO Preprints.[8]

Open access

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In 2013 the Latin American SciELO project completed 15 years of free publishing.[9] Open accesshas long emphasized access to scholarly materials. However, open access can also mean access to the means of producing visible and recognized journals. This issue is particularly important in developing and emergent countries,[10]where there are other benefits of and challenges for publishing scientific journals in and by emerging countries.[11]SciELO also has a blog entitled "SciELO in Perspective" where scientists and researchers publish articles aimed towards broader audiences.[12]

Technology

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Articles are sent to SciELO by publishers inXMLorHTML+SGML,using a variety of articleDTDs. The SGML DTD was used until 2013,[13]when SciELO started to offer theJournal Article Tag Suite(JATS) DTD standard for XML deposites.[14]Using to Markup XML a macro in a proprietary desktop application (Microsoft Office Word-DOCX).[15]

In the SciELO portals, received JATS-articles are converted viaXSLTtoHTML,and "SGML+HTML pack" articles use the HTML content (in general a handmade PDF-to-HTML conversion). This process may reveal errors that are reported back to the publisher for correction. Graphics are also converted to standard formats and sizes. The original and converted forms are archived. The converted form is moved into arelational database,along with associated files for graphics, multimedia, or other associated data. Many publishers also providePDFsof their articles, and these are made available without change.

Bibliographic citations are (SGML or XML) parsed and automatically linked to the associated articles in SciELO and resources on publishers' Web sites. Unresolvable references, such as journals or particular articles not yet available at one of these sources, are tracked in the database and automatically come "live" when the resources become available.

An in-house indexing system provides search capability.

Tools

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Multiple tools exist to allow creation, editing and conversion for SciELO XML. They range from simple crude convertors to full blown XML converters.

Conversion

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To SciELO XML

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  • MS Worddocuments andOpenOffice(LibreOffice) documents to SciELO:
    • Typeset: provides automated set of converters for MS-Word to SciELO XML.
    • OxGarage:can convert documents from various XML formats
    • meTypeset:meTypeset "is a fork of the OxGarage stack" "to convert from Microsoft Word.docx format to SciELO XML via JATS XML (using XSLT).
    • Word to Markdown to SciELO XML: This can be done through Pandoc. This process might involve loss of information for certain complex manuscripts containing equations & tables.

From SciELO XML

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Take SciELO XML as input, produce a certain output format

The common formats for Production phase are mentioned below:

  • from SciELO to HTML: (for web versions)
    • JATS Preview Stylesheets (canonicalXSLTconversion), see classical (2013) conversor.
    • eLife Lensconverts NLM XML to JSON for displaying using HTML and Javascript.
    • Typeset Publisher Solution
  • from SciELO to PDF:
    • Typeset converter for SciELO XML to PDF
    • some JATS Preview Stylesheets, XSLT + XSL-FO conversion.
  • from SciELO to ePUB: (for mobile versions)
    • eXtyles

Controversy

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Further information:Redalyc § Controversy

In July 2015,Jeffrey Beall,an American librarian, posted an article on his blog referring to the two largest Latin Americanopen accessdatabases (SciELO andRedalyc) as "favelas",[16]which is a derogatory Portuguese term for a slum. Beall stated:

"Many North American scholars have never even heard of these meta-publishers or the journals they aggregate. Their content is largely hidden, the neighborhood remote and unfamiliar."

Among the responses is a motion passed by the Brazilian Forum of Public Health Journals Editors and the Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva (Abrasco, Brazilian Public Health Association).[17]The motion takes exception to Beall's characterization, draws attention to the underlying "ethnocentric prejudice", and corrects factual inaccuracies. As a counterpoint to Beall's "neocolonialpoint of view ", the motion draws attention to work by Vessuri, Guedon and Cetto emphasizing the value of initiatives such as SciELO and Redalyc (also targeted by Beall) to the development of science in Latin America and globally:" In fact, Latin America is using the OA publishing model to a far greater extent than any other region in the world…. Also, because the sense of public mission remains strong among Latin American universities… these current initiatives demonstrate that the region contributes more and more to the global knowledge exchange while positioning research literature as apublic good."[18]

See also

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References

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  1. ^"SciELO".Retrieved19 October2015.
  2. ^Packer, Abel (October 2000)."SciELO - a Model for Cooperative Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries".D-Lib Magazine.Vol. 6, no. 10.ISSN1082-9873.
  3. ^"SciELO.org - Scientific Electronic Library Online".www.scielo.org.Retrieved2015-10-19.
  4. ^"SciELO in numbers".SciELO.Retrieved27 June2014.
  5. ^"The SciELO 15 Years Conference is a milestone in SciELO's History".SciELO in Perspective.5 November 2013.Retrieved15 February2014.
  6. ^Prat, Anna María (2000)."Programa Biblioteca Científica Electrónica en Línea, SciELO-Chile: una nueva forma de acceder a la literatura científica nacional"[Online Electronic Scientific Library Program, SciELO-Chile: a new way of accessing national scientific literature].Biological Research(in Spanish).33(2).doi:10.4067/S0716-97602000000200003.ISSN0716-9760.
  7. ^"Thomson Reuters Collaborates with SciELO to Showcase Emerging Research Centers within Web of Knowledge".
  8. ^"SciELO Preprints on the way".SciELO in Perspective.2017-02-22.Retrieved2017-02-22.
  9. ^Van Noorden, R. (2013)."Brazil fêtes open-access site".Nature.502(7472): 418.Bibcode:2013Natur.502..418V.doi:10.1038/502418a.ISSN0028-0836.PMID24153270.
  10. ^Packer, Abel L. (2009)."The SciELO Open Access: A Gold Way from the South".Canadian Journal of Higher Education.39(3): 111–126.doi:10.47678/cjhe.v39i3.479.ISSN0316-1218.
  11. ^Meneghini, Rogerio (1 February 2012)."Emerging journals".EMBO Reports.13(2): 106–108.doi:10.1038/embor.2011.252.ISSN1469-221X.PMC3271339.PMID22240975.
  12. ^"Your research is published - what now? 7 simple tips to communicate it effectively".Labs Explorer.Retrieved2020-06-09.[dead link]
  13. ^Packer, Abel L.; Salgado, Eliana; Araujo, Javani; Aquino, Letícia; Almeida, Renata; Santos, Jesner; Lucena, Suely; Soares, Caroline M. (4 April 2014)."Why XML?".SciELO in Perspective.
  14. ^"Guia de uso de elementos e atributos XML para documentos que seguem a implementação SciELO Publishing Schema. — documentação SciELO Publishing Schema 1.7".
  15. ^"Markup Program — SciELO PC Programs 4.0.094 documentation".
  16. ^Jeffrey Beall (30 July 2015)."Is SciELO a Publication Favela?".Scholarly Open Access.Archived fromthe originalon 2016-11-08.
  17. ^"Motion to repudiate Mr. Jeffrey Beall's classist attack on SciELO".SciELO in Perspective.2 August 2015.Retrieved12 October2015.
  18. ^Vessuri, Hebe; Guédon, Jean-Claude; Cetto, Ana María (4 December 2013)."Excellence or quality? Impact of the current competition regime on science and scientific publishing in Latin America and its implications for development"(PDF).Current Sociology.62(5): 647–665.doi:10.1177/0011392113512839.ISSN0011-3921.S2CID25166127.

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