Abel L Packer SciELO FAPESP Program Director Federal University of São Paulo Foundation Advisor on Information and Communication on Science 6 th COASP 2014 UNESCO 1719 September 2014 Latin America is the region that proportionally publishes more scientific research in open access ID: 358860
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Open Access Journals in Latin America
Abel L. PackerSciELO / FAPESP Program, DirectorFederal University of São Paulo Foundation, Advisor on Information and Communication on Science
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COASP 2014, UNESCO, 17-19 September 2014Slide2
Latin America is the region that proportionally publishes more scientific research in open access
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2013
- WoS Core Collection
- 1.6 million articles, review articles and proceeding papersSlide3
Latin America is the region that proportionally publishes more scientific research in open access
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Latin America is the region that proportionally publishes more scientific research in open access
Top Portals, July 2014
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Latin America is the region that proportionally publishes more scientific research in open access
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SciELO Network –
September 2014
16 years of regular operation
Management & funding
n
ational research council / ministry
p
ublic funding
d
evelopment - scientific committee
16 country collections13 LA, Portugal, Spain, South Africa
4 still in development
~ 1 000 journals~ 500 000 articles
~ 500 000 downloads per day – Brazilestimated 1 million per day all ( COUNTER Code of Principles)Slide6
Salvador
Declaration on Open Access: The Developing World Perspective“Open access means unrestricted access to and use of scientific information. … “Open Access promotes equity. …”“
…. agree that:
requiring that publicly funded research is made available through Open Access;
considering the cost of publication as part of the cost of research;
strengthening the local OA journals, repositories and other relevant initiatives;
promoting integration of developing countries scientific information in the worldwide body of knowledge.
We
call on all stakeholders in the international community to work together to ensure that scientific information is openly accessible and freely available to all, forever
.”Foundations and drivers
International Seminar on Open Access for Developing CountriesSalvador, 21 September 2005
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Foundations and drivers
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Salvador Declaration on Open Access: The Developing World Perspective
International cooperation – United Nations agencies and United States and Canada Agencies
Bibliographic indexes - Network approach – modus operandi – by thematic areas
Early adoption of IT&C – powered by UNESCO CDS / ISIS
Common economic, social cultural conditions
Increase of national research
outuput
– increase o number nationally published journals
--- evaluation of journals – as research object and ranking for financing --- need for citation index to complement international indexes Slide8
However, …LA journals performance is questionable
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Distribution of the
Scimago
Journal Ranking by major scientific area
Scopus, Journal List, June 2014Slide9
Political & administrative constraints
Public and institutional policies on scientific communication
Access to journals, books, database – national portals / consortia
Research communication and evaluation – high ranked journals,
- scientific
productivism
Journals nationally published –
SciELO
and othersJournals of Latin America are integral part of the national research and educational systems
> 95% of journals published by universities, societies, R&D institutions
~ 100% non profit, only few journals are auto-sustainable Fragmentation – one publisher per journal – lack of critical mass, innovation
Still lacking professionalism, openness, internationalization, ….Slide10
LA journals main characteristics
Communicate an important set of national research results ~20%
Nationally and internationally oriented research
~ 100% national editor-in-chief – most active researchers
> 80% of national associate editors and peer-reviewers
30% English journals of Spanish speaking countries
55% English journals of Brazil
m
ainly national authors and reduced international collaboration
p
ublish in 50% of the 251
WoS thematic categories> 70% downloads at national levelSlide11
SciELO Program and SciELO Network - The way forward – Lines of Action
SciELO 15 Years Conference, October 22-25, São Paulo, www.scielo15.org
3 main Lines of action – next 3 years - 2015-2017
professionalization
internationalization
sustainable financing
D
iscuss
the state of the art in Open Access scholarly communication and the challenges faced in improving
developing countries academic
journals and the SciELO Program1/5
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uild a shared - common platform of certified products and servicesfor journal editing and publishingSlide12
SciELO Program and SciELO Network - The way forward – Lines of Action
Common platform of methods, products and services
Manuscript processing, text editing and formatting, Indexing, publishing and interoperability, metrics
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National and international companies
Publishers can produce their journal in house, hire part or the entire production
Upload to SciELO server contents on XML JATS-SciELO Schema, PDF and
ePUB
files
Services - following international state of the art
Minimize costs
Article processing based budget
Free or payee
Technology – main platform is open-source, Web-Mobile interfaces, add-on services Slide13
SciELO Program and SciELO Network - The way forward – Lines of Action
Internationalization - dimensions
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editorial board
manuscript processing
language
authorship
Indexing criteria
applied by thematic areas and whole collection
Ex. SciELO Brazil – by 2016:
English - minimum, recommended % of articles
- 80, 85% biological and medical sciences - 70, 85% physical sciences - 20, 30% humanities and social sciences - 60, 75% all the collectionSlide14
SciELO Program and SciELO Network - The way forward – Lines of Action
Funding – mix of sources
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i
nstitution responsible
r
esearch agencies
sponsors
APC
Towards autonomous financing
US$ 150 – 200.00 per article
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APC Model for SciELO Journals- preliminary analysis 1/2Slide16
APC Model for SciELO Journals- preliminary analysis 2/2Slide17
SciELO Program and SciELO Network - The way forward – Lines of Action
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Evaluation
– multidimensional framework
d
egree of professionalization, internationalization and financing sustainability
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itations – SciELO Citation Index / WoS : SciELO + WoS journals
Google Metrics
WoS and Scopus – as a reference only
downloads
s
ocial networks - altmetricsSlide18
Discussion and Conclusion
LA journals are essential ... Golden Open access consolidated
...[but] questioned by the cycle (performance valuation) ...
National – International Orientation
proper balance: English – Spanish - Portuguese
authorship
management
international indexing
Public funding – change the centrality to authors
5 a 10 journals of international reference – Q1 in international indexes
Salvador Declaration on Open Access: The Developing World
PerspectiveSlide19
Thank you !
www.scielo.orgabel.packer@scielo.org