Global BHL Meeting Fez - Morocco, May, 2013 BHL Brazil [and LA&C] via SciELO BHL Network Abel L. Packer SciELO, Coordinator Technical support: Fabiana Montanari - SciELO Supervisor Luis Gomes - SciELO Administrator Fabio Batalha - SciELO Supervisor Rondineli Saad - Network Administrator Hussam Zaher - Museum of Zoology of the USP, Director

Secretary of Forests and Biodiversity of the Ministry of Environment Zoology Museum of the University of Sao Paulo BIOTA/FAPESP Program National Library Foundation Brazilian Society of Zoology Science editors of the SciELO Collection of Biodiversity Journals Librarians Work Group Developers Work Group Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden FAPESP SciELO Program, as Committee coordinator Advisory Committee

1.Botanic Institute of the Sao Paulo State 2.Butantan Institute 3.Emilio Goeldi Museum 4.Federal University of Parana 5.Federal University of Rio Grande 6.Ministry of Environment 7.National Amazon Research Institute (request for inclusion granted in the II Meeting) 8.National Museum 9.Oswaldo Cruz Foundation 10.Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden 11.State University of Campinas 12.University of Sao Paulo 13.Zoobotanic Foundation Libraries Network

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BHL-SciELO Network and Information Sources BHL Brazil: scanned 385 works within gBHL, including books about Brazilian fauna and flora, and national scientific journals => will include around scanned works from the Brazilian Institutions BHL Global: works – journals and books – which integrate the biodiversity global network of libraries (gBHL) Portal of Biodiversity Journals: 38 scientific journals published in 5 countries of SciELO Network Legislation: updated collection of national 69 laws and international treaties, BIOTA/FAPESP Repository: constituted by the bibliographic metadata of 547 scientific articles of BIOTA/FAPESP Program ThesBio: multilingual hierarchic tool with biodiversity terms and scope notes in Portuguese, English and Spanish languages Communication: news, blog, twitter List of Species

Achievements and Challenges of Last Year 585 scanned works which sum pages of books and scientific journals, according to BHL Methodology Assembly of 4 scanning centers: Zoology Museum of the University of São Paulo Butantan Institute Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden - in regular operation Emilio Goeldi Museum - in regular operation Completion of digitization activities at the Butantan Institute Completion of the development of a program for the conversion of scanned books metadata to Marc 21 XML and the start of the test phase

Future Plans Development of a program for the conversion of scanned journals metadata to Marc 21 XML Provision of the first digitized works (books) on the Internet Archives Assembly of two other scanning centers

Conclusions on SciELO-BHL development Bureaucratic barriers - slow but sustainable process Political support - aligned with national policies --- critical to get institutional and financial support Scientific support - aligned with research programs --- critical to get research community support Based on existing national and international successful experiences: BHL, SciELO and VHL Network rationality, open access, public good Committed to BHL network

Thank you ! Fabiana Montanari SciELO Supervisor