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| Latindex | |
|---|---|
| Name | Latindex |
| Type | Regional bibliographic network |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Mexico City |
| Region served | Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal |
| Language | Spanish, Portuguese, English |
| Parent organizations | Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT) |
Latindex Latindex is a regional information system that compiles bibliographic metadata and evaluative data on scientific, technological, and academic serial publications from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, and Portugal. It connects publishers, libraries, and research institutions such as the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidade de São Paulo, and Universidad de Chile to enhance visibility of regional journals and integrate with global services like Directory of Open Access Journals, Scopus, Web of Science, and SciELO. Latindex collaborates with national agencies and international organizations including the Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos, UNESCO, European Commission, World Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank.
Latindex operates as a cooperative network among national institutes such as CONICYT (Chile), CONACYT (Mexico), and academic publishers like Elsevier, Springer Nature, and regional platforms including Redalyc and SciELO. It aggregates journal metadata, provides quality indicators, and maintains a catalogue used by libraries at institutions like Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of California, Berkeley, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The service supports discovery through standardized records compatible with systems from CrossRef, ORCID, DOAJ, CERN, and indexing engines such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic.
Latindex was established in 1995 through initiatives involving bodies like UNAM, CONACYT, the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas of Argentina, and ministries from countries including México, Argentina, Brasil, Chile, and Colombia. Early partnerships included networks such as RedCLARA and libraries at Biblioteca Nacional de España and Biblioteca Nacional de Brasil. Over time Latindex integrated practices from international standards organizations like International Organization for Standardization and Committee on Publication Ethics, and it aligned metadata with protocols from Open Archives Initiative and standards promoted by EIFL.
Latindex covers peer-reviewed and editorial serials published by universities, research institutes, scholarly societies, and commercial presses across territories like Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain, and Portugal. The database indexes journals in fields represented by institutions such as Universidad Autónoma de México, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, and Instituto Cervantes. Coverage spans humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, and interdisciplinary outlets that appear in collections at Bibliothèque nationale de France, Library of Congress, and British Library.
Latindex applies evaluative criteria influenced by guidelines from Committee on Publication Ethics, International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, and national evaluation agencies like ANEP and CONSEJO DE EVALUACIÓN. Criteria include editorial board composition with affiliations to universities such as Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad de Sevilla, peer review policies comparable to journals indexed by Nature Publishing Group and Science, frequency and regularity akin to publications tracked by PubMed Central and JSTOR, and bibliographic metadata interoperable with Dublin Core and MARC21. Latindex also evaluates open access policies consistent with principles promoted by SPARC and funder mandates from organizations like the European Research Council.
Latindex provides online catalogues, registry services, and evaluation reports accessible to librarians and researchers at entities such as National Autonomous University of Mexico Library, Biblioteca Nacional de Argentina, Fundación Carolina, and research offices in ministries of science. Services include searchable metadata records interoperable with OAI-PMH, training workshops for publishing departments at Universidad de Antioquia, consultancy for editorial quality at Universidad de la Habana, and collaboration with repositories like Zenodo and Figshare. Integration channels link Latindex entries with citation platforms such as CrossRef and identifiers like ORCID to support discoverability in portals like Dimensions and Microsoft Academic.
Latindex has influenced evaluation practices at funding agencies including CONACYT, FAPESP, ANII, and accreditation bodies in universities like Universidad de Costa Rica and Universidad de Puerto Rico. It is cited in policy documents by organizations such as UNESCO and used by librarians at New York Public Library and academic consortia in strategic collections development. Scholarly reactions range from endorsement by editorial boards at Revista Mexicana de Sociología and Revista de Saúde Pública to critiques from academics at Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Nacional de Colombia concerning regional visibility and impact metrics. Latindex records are incorporated into assessment exercises similar to those run by Research Excellence Framework and national evaluation frameworks.
Latindex is governed through agreements among higher education and research institutions including UNAM, national science agencies like CONACYT and collaborating ministries from countries such as Argentina and Chile, with advisory input from international partners like UNESCO and the Ibero-American General Secretariat. Funding sources include institutional contributions, grants from entities like the Inter-American Development Bank and project support from foundations similar to Ford Foundation and Gates Foundation, and cooperative financing from national libraries and university presses such as Cambridge University Press and Universidad de Buenos Aires Press. Governance structures mirror consortial models seen at HathiTrust and OCLC.
Category:Bibliographic databases