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The SciELO Model for the cooperative electronic publishing in developing countries 10th International Conference of Science Editors, Rio de Janeiro, August 27-30, 2000 Abel L. Packer BIREME/PAHO/WHO, Director SciELO Project, Operational Coordinator

SciELO Model Evolution Phase 1 - Pilot project: March May 1998 development of SciELO Methodology pilot operation of 10 journals in the Internet Phase 2 - SciELO Sites : June May 2001 operation of individual SciELO sites widening partnership Phase 3 - Network SciELO Sites : June May 2003 development of a network of SciELO Sites building of LA&C national and regional bibliometric indicators

SciELO Model SciELO Project - development forces FAPESP: demand of an index to control, make visible and evaluate Brazilian scientific journals BIREME: demand of a methodology to promote the transition to electronic publishing, specially for the health sciences literature from LA&C referenced by LILACS ABEC: development of scientific communication in Brazil Internet: emergence/predominance of Internet as the universal publishing medium need of a comprehensive electronic publishing approach envisaging to overcome developing countries scientific communication vicious circle - information technology enabling a common methodology/model

the access to scientific and technical information is essential for economic and social development research results are mainly communicated and validated through publication in scientific journals developed countries have a very well established scientific communication infrastructure only a small percentage of the scientific production from developing countries shares this infrastructure SciELO Model foundations

SciELO Model … - foundations most of the developing countries scientific journals lack adequate distribution and dissemination in consequence, local generated scientific information is lost or have a limited impact the scientific information generated in the developing countries should be universally accessible and valued it will increase the usage and impact of local information on decision making processes at different levels it will contribute to develop a positive feedback to local scientific journals and therefore to overcome the marginalization vicious circle

contribute to the development and impact of the scientific research in Latin America and Caribbean by improving and widening the means of dissemination, publication, and evaluation of research results - visibility - accessibility - quality - credibility - systematic evaluation actual value - usage, impact,... global and specific objectives impact network local ! SciELO Model sustainability

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Example of measuring impact using SciELO data from Brazilian tropical medicine related journals

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Components SciELO Methodology SciELO Sites Network of SciELO Sites SciELO Model

SciELO Methodology preparation, storage, preservation, publication, linking, dissemination and evaluation of scientific journals compatible with international standards and initiatives exportable/adequate to developing countries conditions cooperative development - capacity building public domain for the SciELO Network 1 interchange w/ developing countries related projects/initiatives: INASP, BIOLINE, UNESCO, ICSU, open archiving, etc.

. DOC. PM. HTML Markup SGML DTD parser correction conversion to HTML fulltext presentation & markup load into desktop database ftp to Internet SciELO Server Internet SciELO site reports. Latex interface. PDF ….

integrated collection of scientific journals integrated bibliographic [control] data base integrated measurement of usage and impact SciELO Methodology dynamic link with national, regional and international data bases

indicators: usage - hits, impact - citation, links,... scientific peer review editorial board periodicity age on time english title, abstract and keywords bibliographic standards indexing in international databases Selection criteria - inclusion and permanency application under responsibility of a National Advisory Committee ( fapesp, bireme, cnpq, capes, editors)

SciELO >SciELO SciELO > bibliographic databases SciELO >>> fulltext databases SciELO > Lattes Platform - CV and Research Groups Linking Transfer of metadata to bibliographic data bases LILACS PubMed - MEDLINE others

SciELO Model SciELO Sites 2 decentralized collections of journals using SciELO Methodology national sites regional thematic sites Brazil - 51 titles - Chile - 16 titles - * Costa Rica - 5 titles - * Cuba - public health: 5 titles - Brazil, Mexico,PAHO,Spain future: ?!!?

SciELO Model Network of SciELO Sites 3 portal: links to individual SciELO Sites future developments cooperation among national and regional scientific communication instances integrated search national and regional usage and impact indicators

SciELO Model major challenges text treatment: xml fully decentralization - operation of network of SciELO sites and SciELO journals indicators -quality control - evaluation - improvement economic sustainability model publication on the fly - article oriented virtual journal - mySciELO research funds, public funds, publicity, access control: subscription policies - per jounal title, SciELO Sites, subsets, pay-per-view search/navigation/linking: multi [-language,-discipline, -etc