"An Open Digital Global South," UC Davis

1. SciELO Network - combining internationalization
and priorities of nationally published journals
SciELO Program
FAPESP, CNPq, BIREME, FapUNIFESP
Solange Santos and Abel L. Packer

2. LA is the region that proportionally publish more in OA
Latin America
 LA: 23% of docs in OA in WoS vs ALL regions: 12% in OA
 LA: 71% of docs in OA in Scopus vs ALL regions: 17% in OA
 LA: +30% articles in DOAJ, Brazil: 19%, Rank 1st, UK: 11%, 2nd
Open Access contents envisaged as [regional/global] COMMON
GOODS (at the service / for the benefit of the community)

3. Source: Folder of International Seminar on Open Acces for Developing Countries, by BIREME
SciELO – in the Open Access Movement
SciELO is a pioneer program that
inserted Latin-American journals in
the Open Access Movement

4. International Open Access Movement
2002 Budapest Open Access Initiative
2003 Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing
Wellcome Trust Position Statement in support of open and unrestricted
access to published research
Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences
and Humanities
UN World Summit on the Information Society – Declaration of principles
2004 Valparaiso Declaration for Improved Scientific Communication in the
Electronic Medium
OECD Declaration on Access to Research Data from Public Funding
IFLA Statement on Open Access to Scholarly Literature and Research
Documentation
2005 NIH Public Access Policy
Salvador Declaration on Open Access for Developing Countries
2006 Bangalore Declaration: A National Open Access Policy for Developing
Countries

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SciELO is an international cooperation program for the advancement of research
communication
Main objective – contribute to advance research and its communication;
Specific objectives
 to maximize the availability, visibility, use, impact and credibility of nationally
edited journals and the research they communicate;
 to improve the quality of the journals;
 to complement international bibliographic – bibliometric indexes.
SciELO Program is led by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).
SciELO - Scientific Eletronic Library Online

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 20 years old SciELO Network
 Composed by 15 national collections of open access peer reviewed journals;
 12 Latin American countries, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
SciELO Program Network
 More 1 thousand active journals, ~ 52 thousand docs per year, about 650 thousand total;
 Over 1 million downloads per day (COUNTER methodology) only in SciELO Brazil

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SciELO Program Network
SciELO is one of the most important Open Acces international
cooperation program on scientific communication among
developing countries.
It is a huge
operation

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The SciELO Program is implemented through three main lines of actions
 Professionalization – to produce journals according the state of the art
 Internationalization – insertion in the global flow of scientific information
 Financial Sustainability – mix of funding resources and low production costs
Innovations and Interoperability permeates the SciELO lines of action
Expected results:
 Growing collections performance
 Increasing performance of journals

9. minimum
recom-
mended
engineering 27% 29% 31% 49% 30% 40%
multidisciplinary 25% 27% 33% 44% 30% 40%
human sciences 19% 22% 22% 32% 20% 25%
linguistics, letters and arts 21% 23% 23% 31% 20% 25%
applied social sciences 16% 18% 18% 29% 20% 25%
biological sciences 29% 27% 26% 33% 30% 40%
health sciences 18% 19% 21% 32% 25% 35%
exact and earth sciences 27% 26% 28% 29% 30% 35%
agricultural sciences 8% 8% 11% 19% 15% 30%
total 18% 19% 21% 30% 20% 35%
% foreign authorship affiliation
thematic area
2013 2014 2015
estimated
2020
SciELO target
Source: SciELO, 2016
• foreign authorship affiliation
SciELO Brazil – internationalization

10. Source: SciELO, 2016
• editorial management Survey – % manuscripts evaluated by foreign peer reviewers
15% or
more
less than
15%
never
biological 76% 20% 4% 25
linguistic, literature, arts 62% 31% 8% 13
engineering 56% 44% 0% 18
human 46% 47% 8% 79
earth and exact 44% 56% 0% 9
health 38% 55% 8% 93
applied social 35% 62% 3% 34
agriculture 35% 62% 3% 37
total 43% 51% 6% 279
thematic area
foreign peer-reviewers
journals
by 2015:
minimum
recom-
mended
biological 30% 40%
linguistic, literature , arts 20% 25%
engineering 30% 40%
human 20% 25%
earth and exact 30% 40%
health 25% 30%
health 25% 30%
applied social 20% 25%
SciELO Brazil 25% 35%
thematic area
% of manuscripts to
be evaluated by
foreign peer-
reviewers
by 2022
SciELO Brazil – internationalization

11. Source: SciELO, 2016
• English language
36% 37% 38% 38% 37%
41%
43%
48%
52%
56% 57%
62%
7% 9% 10% 10% 10% 12% 13% 14% 16% 17% 16%
18%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
English Portuguese and English
by 2020
• ~ 75% English
• ~ 50% Portuguese
• ~ 25% Portuguese and English
10 years evolution
SciELO Brazil – internationalization – 4/4

12. SciELO Brazil – internationalization
• INDEXING: 100% in Google Scholar, SciELO CI / WoS, DOAJ, CROSSREF, …
• insertion of journals in the international flow of scientific communication
• SERVICES: 100% in ReadCube, Altmetric, Figshare, …
• ASSOCIATIONS: COASP, DOAJ, COUNTER, ALPSP, …
• STANDARDS: 100% XML JATS
~ 70% indexed in major commercial indexes Scopus or WoS
45% in ScholarOne, 42% in OJS, 13% others
80% CC-BY, expected over 95% by 2018
• DIMENSIONS: manuscript evaluation, authorship and language of publications
SciELO targets - % of articles per dimension of internationalization
according thematic areas

13. Word
or Latex
XML
JATS
PDF
ePUB
 online manuscript services
 continuous publication
 broaden interoperability
2013:
1998:
 indexing, publication, interoperability
 aggregation
2017-18:
 Preprint (repository)
 Authoring (oriented services)
 research data (open data repository)
metapublisher
SciELO – Publication Model Evolution
Preprint
Journal
Author

14.  indexing recognized as quality seal – agencies, journals, authors, students …
 leading introduction / adoption of innovations
 High impact regarding presence on the Web and downloads
SciELO Program: internationalization – moving forward
 optimize resources allocation – minimize operational costs
 follow up performance – balance domestic and international influence
 overcome resistances – perceived gains
 share and expand experience with SciELO Network
 Priority lines of action – to promote a major advance in next 3-5 years
 alignment with national research policies and disciplines idiosyncrasies
 partnership and alliances – state of the art – open science, …

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@RedeSciELO
/SciELONetwork
/RedeSciELO
Solange Santos
Solange.santos@scielo.org
SciELO Program
FAPESP, CNPq, BIREME, FapUNIFESP
Thanks!!!