scientific electronic library online

The SciELO Model for the cooperative electronic publishing and measuring of usage and impact in developing countries 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

SciELO Model … SciELO Project - development forces 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,... impact network local ! SciELO Model - global and specific objectives sustainability

good but national all bad

value improve quality make then visible and accessible Lost Science in the Third World W. Wayt Gibbs Scientific American August 1995 quality or perception of quality journals from developing countries are perceived as second class but they play important 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 they are not all bad journals sustainability requires the development of positive feedback with target/potential readers/writers increase credibility SciELO Model preserve electronic collections

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.

Evidences and facts already provided by SciELO

Date of entry MEDLINE - Date of Publication REVISTA MIOC ANO meses| | Total | | 35 1 | | 0 2 | | 58 3 | | 60 4 | | 50 5 | | 60 6 | | 21 7 | | 21 8 | | 20 9 | | | | Total | | 343 REVISTA Obs Total Mean Variance Std Dev REVISTA Minimum 25%ile Median 75%ile Maximum Mode Date of entry MEDLINE - date of Publication

SciELO Brazil Tropical Medicine related journals - impact factor 1999 Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

JCR, ISI, 1999, Revistas Medicina Tropical fijournal SciELO Brazil, 1999, Tropical Medicine 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.

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 public health: 6 titles Brazil, Mexico, PAHO, WHO, 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 publication on the fly - article oriented virtual journal - mySciELO search/navigation/linking: multi [-language,- discipline, -etc

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

SciELO - the Scientific Electronic Library Online is 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