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Open Access Journals in Latin America

Open Access Journals in Latin America. 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, 17-19 September 2014.

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Open Access Journals in Latin America

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  1. Open Access Journals in Latin America Abel L. PackerSciELO / FAPESP Program, DirectorFederal University of São Paulo Foundation, Advisor on Information and Communication on Science 6th COASP 2014, UNESCO, 17-19 September 2014

  2. Latin America is the region that proportionally publishes more scientific research in open access 1/4 2013 - WoS Core Collection - 1.6 million articles, review articles and proceeding papers

  3. Latin America is the region that proportionally publishes more scientific research in open access 2/4

  4. Latin America is the region that proportionally publishes more scientific research in open access 3/4 Top Portals, July 2014

  5. Latin America is the region that proportionally publishes more scientific research in open access 4/4 SciELO Network – September 2014 • 16 years of regular operation • Management & funding • national research council / ministry • public funding • development - scientific committee • 16 country collections • 13 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)

  6. Foundations and drivers 1/2 • 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.” International Seminar on Open Access for Developing CountriesSalvador, 21 September 2005

  7. Foundations and drivers 2/2 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

  8. However, … LA journals performance is questionable 1/2 Distribution of the Scimago Journal Ranking by major scientific area Scopus, Journal List, June 2014

  9. 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 – SciELOand others Journals 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, ….

  10. LA journals main characteristics Communicate an important set of national research results ~20% Nationally and internationally oriented research publish in 50% of the 251 WoS thematic categories > 70% downloads at national level ~ 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 mainly national authors and reduced international collaboration

  11. SciELO Program and SciELO Network - The way forward – Lines of Action 1/5 SciELO 15 Years Conference, October 22-25, São Paulo, www.scielo15.org Discuss the state of the art in Open Access scholarly communication and the challenges faced in improving developing countries academic journals and the SciELO Program 3 main Lines of action – next 3 years - 2015-2017 professionalization build a shared - common platform of certified products and services for journal editing and publishing internationalization sustainable financing

  12. SciELO Program and SciELO Network - The way forward – Lines of Action 2/5 Common platform of methods, productsand services • Manuscript processing, text editing and formatting, Indexing, publishing and interoperability, metrics • Technology – main platform is open-source, Web-Mobile interfaces, add-on services • Free or payee • 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

  13. SciELO Program and SciELO Network - The way forward – Lines of Action 3/5 Internationalization - dimensions Indexing criteria applied by thematic areas and whole collection • editorial board • manuscript processing Ex. SciELO Brazil – by 2016: • language 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 collection • authorship

  14. SciELO Program and SciELO Network - The way forward – Lines of Action 4/5 Funding – mix of sources • institution responsible • research agencies • sponsors • APC Towards autonomous financing  US$ 150 – 200.00 per article

  15. APC Model for SciELO Journals- preliminary analysis 1/2

  16. APC Model for SciELO Journals- preliminary analysis 2/2

  17. SciELO Program and SciELO Network - The way forward – Lines of Action 5/5 Evaluation – multidimensional framework • degree of professionalization, internationalization and financing sustainability • citations – SciELO Citation Index / WoS : SciELO + WoS journals • Google Metrics • WoS and Scopus – as a reference only • downloads • social networks - altmetrics

  18. Discussion and Conclusion LA journals are essential ... Golden Open access consolidated ...[but] questioned by the cycle (performance valuation) ... National – International Orientation international indexing proper balance: English – Spanish - Portuguese authorship management 5 a 10 journals of international reference – Q1 in international indexes Public funding – change the centrality to authors Salvador Declaration on Open Access: The Developing World Perspective

  19. Thank you ! www.scielo.orgabel.packer@scielo.org

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