The knowledge commons research and innovation in an unequal world [Case of SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online ]

Developing countries face dissemination barriers that affects local scientific production. 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.

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 ofscientific information worldwide.

SciELO - Scientific Electronic SciElo enables:Library Online (1998): facilitate - Searching, 15 nations + South-South Cooperationcooperative electronic - Preserving andpublishing of scientific (peer - Monitoring scientificreview) journals. literature.SiELO network (federation) is It includes over 760 journals,based on national ~300,000 articles.infrastructures (future Impact factor: Over 6 millionsustainability). granted citation. Over than 12 million articles accessed per month.Goal: To foster the nationalscientific research (expandingthe visibility, accessibility and SiELO: Compatible with internationalcredibility) of the LA&C standards (Web of Science, Scopus, Crossref, Googlescientific publications. Scholar, PubMed, DOAJ).

Big - visibilityPublish or perish? Visible reuse & production of licensed (institutional) OER.SciELO OPEN ACCESS increased the indexed articlesreadership and citations (visibility) localscientific production.Freedom of access also enhancesflexibility (disciplinary and contextual) ofresources.Scientists now can bypass traditionalpublication routes by using new means to Little – visibilitydisseminate their academic production. Reuse of digital resources. Non indexed articlesAcademics need to make their ideas:Available (not locked behind paywalls),Spreadable: (readable & engaging)Boosting opportunities for globalknowledge exchange.

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A large percentage of journals of SciELO are not included in theDOAJ (because of lack self-archiving policies), and its publishers arenot included in SHERPA/RoMEO (Miguel. et al, 2011).Packer; the cost per publishedarticle is US $60 for the ScientificElectronic Library Online (SciELO)portal (Björk, 2011).

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The knowledge commons research and innovation in an unequal world [Case of SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online ]

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