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Access to eletronic journals: policies, strategies and programmes
The Brazilian experience
Luiz Valcov Loureiro, Director of Programs, Capes/MEC
International Conference of Scientific Eletronic Publishing in Developing Countries, Valparaiso, Chile, October 1st 2002
What is Capes?
• a foundation attached to Ministry of Education• created in 1951• mission “to improve the quality of higher education institutions in Brazil”• 800 PhD and 1400 MSc programs• 150,000 students enrolled, 30,000 faculty• 6000 PhD, 20000 MSc delivered in 2001
What Capes does ?
• support to graduate programs in Brazil (institutional scholarships and grants)
• support to institutional faculty training plans• scholarships abroad (PhD, split PhD, Pos-Doc)• international cooperation• special programs to develop strategic fields• assessment of graduate programs• access to scientific information
Why ?
Historical reasons Crisis = Opportunity
• Reduce gaps between institutions and regions all over the country
• Increase the inclusion of the Brazilian academic community in the international scene
• Increase the quantity/quality/visibility of the Brazilian scientific production
How ?
• Electronic access to scientific information• Internet and intranet infrastructure upgraded• Some money for specific needs• As universal as possible, different Capes
commitment levels
To Whom ?
• Clear and simple criteria to select participating institutions
• 97 institutions, revised every 3 years (Capes assessment)
• 1 million users (150,000 graduate students, 30,000 faculty)
What ? (i)
• Full text databases– Content available simultaneously or preferably
before print (live)– Backfiles from 1995 minimum– Quality of the service, availability, search engine,
alert, usage statistics– Archiving, some times not available– Links with bibliographic databases– In the beginning is easy to choose
What ? (ii)
• Reference and citation databases– Broad fields coverage as possible– Broad time period coverage as possible– Quality of the service, availability, search engine,
usage statistics– Links with full text databases– Some are obvious, others don´t, overlapping
What ? (iii)
• It becomes a maze very quickly– The user browses the content that he or she is used
to read– Organize the content to bring to evidence all
publications in a certain field– Bring to evidence reference databases– Bring to evidence open access publications to
authorized and non-authorized users
Number of Portal titlesNovember/2000 to September/2002
0
500
1.000
1.500
2.000
2.500
3.000
3.500
Title
s N
um
be
r
How to buy ?
• Negotiation and acquisition conditions varies a lot
• There are 2 types of publishers– Transparent pricing (normal)– Monopolistic behavior (as they want)
• Strong commercial interests in a changing context
Where are we now ?
• + 3000 titles with a good field coverage• 13 references databases• Brazilian thesis database• Good embedding• + 6000 daily visits• + 1,5 million articles downloaded in 2001• + 2 million searches in references databases
Utilization of full text data base - 2001 Total of downloaded articles - 1.023.835
75,7%
3,4%
4,6%
11,9%2,2%
OVID
ACADEMIC
SCIENCE DIRECT
ACS
GALE
Number of downloaded articles per title per publisher - 2001 Total of downloaded articles - 1.023.835
617
810
226
6.088
84
OVID
ACADEMIC
SCIENCE DIRECT
ACS
GALE
Access to Academic Press titlesJuly/2001 to May/2002
64,36%
35,64%
More Accessed Titles (41)
Anothers (167)
Relation access/cost of downloaded full text in Science Direct data base, in 2001 and 2002
0
100.000
200.000
300.000
400.000
500.000
600.000
700.000
800.000
900.000
1º semester/2001 2º semester/2001 1º semester/2002
Nu
mb
er
of
Do
wn
loa
de
d F
ull
Te
xt/
Se
me
ste
r
3,60
3,80
4,00
4,20
4,40
4,60
4,80
5,00
Do
wn
loa
de
d F
ull
Te
xt
Co
st U
$
Full Text Number
Full Text Cost
Relation access/cost in Silver Platter data base, in 2001 and 2002
0
200.000
400.000
600.000
800.000
1.000.000
1.200.000
1.400.000
1.600.000
1º semester/2001 2º semester/2001 1º semester/2002
Acc
ess
Nu
mb
er/
Se
me
ste
r
0,00
0,20
0,40
0,60
0,80
1,00
1,20
Acc
ess
Co
st U
$
Access Number
Access Cost
Where are we going ?
• There are few big publishers not yet included• It is difficult buy from small publishers (10=1000)• Usage assessment and management of content• Paying user• Cross search engine (maze effect)• Training, training and more training
thanks for your attention!
e-mail: [email protected] home-page: www.capes.gov.br
The portal: www.periodicos.capes.gov.br