1. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 20071 A lifeboat doesn’t do you any good if it’s not there when you need it Ian Johnson

2. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 20072 OVERVIEW  ALFA project REVISTAS  Scholarly publishing in Latin America  Transition to electronic publishing  Emerging issues

3. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 20073 ALFA  América Latina Formación Académica  Academic links  3+ Universities in Latin America  3+ Universities in European Union

4. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 20074  REVISTAS – REd VIrtual Sobre Todas las AmericaS  ‘JOURNALS – a virtual network across the Americas’

5. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 20075 GROWTH IN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING IN LATIN AMERICA  74,000 ISSNs  50-60% increase in ISSN records in 5 countries, 2001-6  15,000 scholarly titles in Latindex  Significant under-recording of output

6. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 20076 PROBLEMS IN THE PRESENT SYSTEM  Best researchers do not publish in Latin American journals  Quality, distribution, access, impact  Awareness of developments is limited  Pedagogy makes little use of journals  Innovation and professional development inhibited

7. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 20077 THE TRANSITION TO ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING  SciELO  Institutional publishers  Aggregators  RedALyC  LivRE  Growing investment by commercial publishers  Grupo Oceano, EBSCOHost, Thomson Learning, Dialnet, ProQuest

8. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 20078 VISIBILITY  Researchers’ goals  Visibility and impact  Exposure to substantial, high quality audience with related interests  Challenges for Open Access  Quality control  Findability  Sustainability

9. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 20079 QUALITY CONTROL  Institutional funding  No incentive to:  Control quality of content  Raise visibility and impact  >2% in SciELO  Growing use of SEER in Brazil  Peer review module?  Supply of content is weak

10. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 200710 FINDABILITY  Poor coverage in generalist, international indexes  ISI  OCLC  SciELO  Clase and Periodica  SCOPUS  Clase and Periodica?  Failure of coverage in regional, national or subject indexes

11. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 200711 LIS JOURNALS IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE  299+ LIS serials in Spanish and Portuguese  220+ originating in Latin America  INFOBILA indexes c.60  Includes 90+ full-text online  48+ originating in Latin America  INFOBILA indexes 2

12. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 200712 AGGREGATOR COVERAGE OF OPEN ACCESS LIS e-JOURNALS Number of LIS e-journals in Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish 90+ LivRe (Brazil)29 RACO (Catalan)3 RedALyC (Mexico)8 REI (REBIUN – Spain) 15

13. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 200713 SUSTAINABILITY  Institutional support  No guaranteed funding  Continual, regular publication?  Awareness?  Search engines and metadata?  Preservation?

14. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 200714 LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA  Converting to Open Access online has not eliminated weaknesses in the scholarly publishing system  Challenges in developing Open Access successfully  Assuring visibility for authors  Ensuring quality  Organising findability  Supporting preservation

15. ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 200715 http://www.rgu.ac.uk/abs Thank you for your attention Questions? Comments?