Scientific American, August 1995, p 76-83 (Wayt Gibbt)

> Excluded from ISI (JCR) indexing and citation system.> Few journals are read in or outside their country.

Developing countries face dissemination barriers that affects local scientific production.

Latin America: More than 590 million people. Over 20 countries. Over 2,500 universities and more than 7,000 other

(non-university) higher education institutions.

a. Universia (http://ocw.universia.net). Network of more than 1000 universities (10 million students). It promotes MIT OCW materials translated. Over 70 Latin American universities (10 countries).

b. Temoa (www.temoa.info ) public and multilingual catalogue that indexes more than 100,000 OER.

c. LA DOAJ: SciELO (www.scielo.org) and REDALYC (http://redalyc.uaemex.mx). Each one includes more than 600 journal titles (over 200,000 articles).

Ranking Web of World Repositories: (SciELO) Brasil the largest free, open access portals of scientific information worldwide.

SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online (1998): facilitate cooperative electronic publishing of scientific (peer review) journals.

SiELO network (federation) is based on national infrastructures (future sustainability).

Goal: To foster the national scientific research (expanding the visibility, accessibility and credibility) of the LA&C scientific publications.

SciElo enables:- Searching, - Preserving and - Monitoring scientific literature.

It includes over 760 journals, ~300,000 articles.Impact factor: Over 6 million granted citation. Over than 12 million articles accessed per month.

SiELO: Compatible with international standards (Web of Science, Scopus, Crossref, Google Scholar, PubMed, DOAJ).

15 nations + South-South Cooperation

Big - visibilityVisible reuse & production of licensed (institutional) OER.

indexed articles

Little – visibilityReuse of digital resources.

Non indexed articles

SciELO OPEN ACCESS increased the readership and citations (visibility) local scientific production.

Freedom of access also enhances flexibility (disciplinary and contextual) of resources.

Scientists now can bypass traditional publication routes by using new means to disseminate their academic production.

Academics need to make their ideas: Available (not locked behind paywalls), Spreadable: (readable & engaging)

Boosting opportunities for global knowledge exchange.

Publish or perish? White &

Manton, 2011

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Oxford Internet Institute Research Fellow.

Packer; the cost per published article is US $60 for the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) portal (Björk, 2011).

A large percentage of journals of SciELO are not included in the DOAJ (because of lack self-archiving policies), and its publishers are not included in SHERPA/RoMEO (Miguel. et al, 2011).