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www.scielo.org
scientific electronic library online
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The SciELO Model
for the cooperative electronic publishing and
measuring of usage and impactin developing
countries
Abel L. PackerBIREME/PAHO/WHO, Director SciELO
Project, Operational Coordinator
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SciELO Model
Evolution
Phase 1 - Pilot project March 1997- May 1998
development of SciELO Methodology
pilot operation of 10 journals in the Internet
Phase 2 - SciELO Sites June 1998 - May 2001
operation of individual SciELO sites
widening partnership
Phase 3 - Network SciELO Sites June 2001 - May
2003
development of a network of SciELO Sites
building of LAC national and regional
bibliometric indicators
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SciELO Model
SciELO Project - development forces - 1996
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 LAC
referenced by LILACS
ABEC development of scientific communication in
Brazil
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SciELO Model
SciELO Project - development forces - 1996
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
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SciELO Model - foundations
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
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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
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SciELO Model - global and specific objectives
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
local
- visibility
network
sustainability
impact
- accessibility
- quality
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- credibility
- systematic evaluation actual value - usage,
impact, ...
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good but national
all bad
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SciELO Model
qualityorperception ofquality
Lost Science in the Third World W. Wayt Gibbs
Scientific AmericanAugust 1995
journals fromdeveloping countriesare
perceivedas second class
they arenot all bad
but they playimportant roles- communicate
local/regional science- local/regional
scope/problems- local/regional language-
development of local capacity in editorship,
publishing and writing- needs to
acquire/increase credibility - to promote
research on local problems - to increase
usage of science in decision making
journalssustainabilityrequires thedevelopment
of positive feedbackwithtarget/potential
readers/writers
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The strength of the SciELO Model resides in the
fact that in addition to promote the transition
of paper based journals towards the Internet
electronic media, it intends to address and
contribute to overcome the traditional problems
inherent the publications running out of the
mainstream
The SciELO Model is being developed to promote a
context where the publishing of non-mainstream
journals can have a positive feedback with their
potential or target community of
readers/writers/stackholders and be progressively
judged by their real dimension and value. In this
line, the SciELO Model intends to provide their
journal collections with visibility/accessibility
and advanced mechanisms of indexing and
measurement complementing ISI JCR and other
developed countries information products and
services.
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Evidences and facts already provided by SciELO
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REVISTA MIOC
ANO meses 1997 1998 1999
2000 Total ------------------------------------
------ 0 0 0 0 35
35 1 0 0 0 0 0
2 0 0 21 37 58
3 0 19 41 0 60 4
0 0 33 17 50 5
0 40 20 0 60 6 0
21 0 0 21 7 0 21
0 0 21 8 20 0 0
0 20 9 0 18 0
0 18 10 0 0 0 0
0 ------------------------------------------
Total 20 119 115 89
343 REVISTA Obs Total Mean
Variance Std Dev 1997 20
160 8.000 0.000 0.000 1998
119 692 5.815 3.305
1.818 1999 115 397 3.452
0.969 0.984 2000 89
142 1.596 2.198 1.483 REVISTA
Minimum 25ile Median 75ile
Maximum Mode 1997 8.000
8.000 8.000 8.000 8.000
8.000 1998 3.000 5.000 6.000
7.000 9.000 5.000 1999
2.000 3.000 3.000 4.000 5.000
3.000 2000 0.000 0.000
2.000 2.000 4.000 2.000
Date of entry MEDLINE - date of Publication
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SciELO BrazilTropical Medicine related journals
- impact factor 1999
Memórias do InstitutoOswaldo Cruz
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São
Paulo
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina
Tropical
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JCR, ISI, 1999, Revistas Medicina Tropical
fi
journal
SciELO Brazil, 1999, Tropical Medicine
0.333 Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina
Tropical
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SciELO Model
Components

• SciELO Methodology

• SciELO Sites

• Network of SciELO Sites

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SciELO Model
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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
interchange w/ developing countries related
projects/initiatives INASP, BIOLINE, UNESCO,
ICSU, open archiving, etc.
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SciELO Methodology
integrated collection of scientific journals
integrated bibliographic control data base
integrated measurement of usage and impact
dynamic link with national, regional and
international data bases
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Selection criteria - inclusion and permanency

• 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

application under responsibility of a National
Advisory Committee ( fapesp, bireme, cnpq,
capes, editors)
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Linking

• SciELO ltlt gtgtSciELO
• SciELO ltlt gtgt bibliographic databases
• SciELO gtgtgt fulltext databases
• SciELO ltltgtgt Lattes Platform - CV and Research
  Groups

Transfer of metadata to bibliographic data bases
LILACS
PubMed - MEDLINEothers
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SciELO Model
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SciELO Sites
decentralized collections of journals using
SciELO Methodology
national sites
regional thematic sites
public health 6 titles Brazil, Mexico, PAHO,
WHO, Spain
future ?!!?
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SciELO Model
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Network of SciELO Sites
cooperation among national and regional
scientific communication instances
portal www.scielo.org
links to individual SciELO Sites
future developments
integrated search
national and regional usage and impact indicators
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SciELO Model - major challenges
text treatment xml
fully decentralization - operation of network of
SciELO sites and SciELO journals
search/navigation/linking multi
-language,-discipline, -etc
publication on the fly - article oriented
virtual journal - mySciELO
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SciELO Model - major challenges
indicators -quality control - evaluation -
improvement
economic sustainability model
research funds, public funds, publicity, access
control subscription policies - per jounal
title, SciELO Sites, subsets, pay-per-view
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SciELO - the Scientific Electronic Library
Onlineis emerging as a regional model for the
electronic publishing of scientific journals,
intended to cover primarily publications from
Latin America, Caribbean and possibly Spain on
health sciences
In the long term, the library is devised as an
instance for the measurement of usage and impact
of national and regional scientific journals
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