The Local and the Global: Puncturing the myth of the “international” journal
What are journals for? In one view they are a brand, a masthead that stands as a widely recognized proxy for some notion of quality assurance or interest. An alternate view is that they are...
View ArticleCompetitiveness and Open Access of journals in a non-English speaking country
J-STAGE is a journal platform on which Japanese academic societies can publish their journals. Although more than 80% of them are freely accessible, most of them do not claim to be open access. Some...
View ArticleThe power relations in world science. An anti-ranking to know the science...
The concept of mainstream science was consolidated globally because publications became the main axis of institutional and individual evaluation also in the periphery. The use of bibliometrics...
View ArticleSeries of interviews with the President and ex-presidents of the ABEC:...
The Associação Brasileira de Editores Científicos (ABEC) and SciELO have key roles in promoting policies aimed at the advancement of Brazilian science regarding production, dissemination and...
View ArticleSeries of interviews with the President and ex-presidents of the ABEC:...
The Associação Brasileira de Editores Científicos (ABEC) and SciELO have key roles in promoting policies aimed at the advancement of Brazilian science regarding production, dissemination and...
View ArticleOpen Access and open science: a historic opportunity
The open access movement in Latin America has a historic opportunity to connect with other practices, tools and experiences of open science – open data, open parts evaluation, open laboratory...
View ArticleAt 20 Years, the SciELO Network updates priorities and advances to open science
The 20 Years of SciELO mark the transition to a new period of development of the program, the network of 16 national collections and mainly of the journals, which will be characterized by the...
View ArticleBase de Dados Científicos da Universidade Federal do Paraná
Apresenta a concepção, o desenvolvimento e a implantação da Base de Dados Científicos da Universidade Federal do Paraná (BDC/UFPR), criada em parceria entre o Centro de Computação Científica e Software...
View ArticlePKP and SciELO announce development of open source Preprint Server system
In commemoration of SciELO’s 20th anniversary, the Public Knowledge Project is joining with SciELO to collaborate on developing a multilingual and multidisciplinary Preprint Server system, based on...
View ArticleHow journals can make the most of Crossref membership
Welcome to the Crossref/SciELO blog series on DOIs and the metadata associated with these persistent identifiers. In the previous posts Chrissie Cormack Wood, Head of Communications introduced you to...
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