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| SciELO Brasil | |
|---|---|
| Title | SciELO Brasil |
| Discipline | Multidisciplinary scholarly publishing |
| Country | Brazil |
| Established | 1998 |
| Language | Portuguese, English, Spanish |
SciELO Brasil is a Brazilian electronic library and scholarly communication platform that indexes and provides open access to peer-reviewed journals. It serves as a national hub linking Brazilian publishers, research institutions, and international initiatives, interacting with organizations such as FAPESP, CAPES, CNPq, Fiocruz and ANVISA. Operating within a landscape shaped by actors like Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Embrapa and Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social, the platform connects to global networks including DOAJ, CrossRef, PubMed Central and OpenAIRE.
SciELO Brasil emerged from collaborations among Brazilian institutions and international partners in the late 1990s, influenced by initiatives from FAPESP, BIREME and the Pan American Health Organization. Early activities drew on standards advanced by UNESCO, World Health Organization and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors to promote visibility for titles like those published by Elsevier partners and national presses such as Editora Fiocruz and Editora UFMG. Milestones include adoption of XML workflows inspired by projects at National Institutes of Health and alignment with metadata schemas used by Library of Congress and European Commission programs. The platform evolved alongside regional counterparts including Redalyc, SciELO Spain, SciELO Argentina and networks supported by Mercosur academic integration efforts.
The platform's mission foregrounds open access dissemination of Brazilian scholarly output, intersecting with mandates and policy frameworks from Ministry of Education (Brazil), Ministry of Health (Brazil), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior and research funders such as Wellcome Trust and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where applicable. Its scope spans journals across biomedical, agricultural, social sciences and engineering domains, encompassing contributions from institutions including Instituto Butantan, EMBRAPA, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia. SciELO Brasil positions itself within international debates involving Plan S, Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association and standards promulgated by Committee on Publication Ethics.
Governance arrangements integrate academic consortia, national agencies, and editorial boards drawn from universities such as Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Oversight mechanisms reflect practices used by International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions and World Health Organization advisory groups. Strategic coordination has engaged entities like FAPESP, CAPES and CNPq and collaborated with publishers including Springer Nature, Wiley-Blackwell and regional publishers such as SciELO Editora-affiliated journals. Committees include representatives from research libraries like Biblioteca Nacional (Brazil) and metadata specialists familiar with standards from ISO and NISO.
The technical infrastructure uses interoperable components comparable to systems at PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and repositories such as Zenodo and Figshare. It implements XML and DOI registration interoperating with CrossRef and supports full-text retrieval, advanced search, and article-level metadata compatible with ORCID identifiers and OpenCitations services. Services include article hosting, preservation workflows cognate with LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, and integration with institutional repositories at universities like Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. The platform adapts tools used by publishers including OJS and metadata workflows aligned to Schema.org and Dublin Core.
Selection criteria and quality control employ editorial peer review norms resonant with guidelines from COPE, ICMJE and professional societies such as Brazilian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Journals undergo evaluation by panels including editors from Revista de Saúde Pública, Cadernos de Saúde Pública, Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências and other flagship titles associated with institutions like Fiocruz and ABRASCO. Processes incorporate bibliometric indicators familiar from Journal Citation Reports and regional metrics used by Scimago Institutions Rankings, while addressing ethical standards derived from WAME and national regulations such as those from Conselho Nacional de Saúde.
SciELO Brasil contributes to national citation patterns reflected in databases like Scopus, Web of Science and altmetric aggregators including Altmetric.com. Its visibility enhances citations for authors affiliated with Universidade de Brasília, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and research centers such as CPqAM and INCT programs. Evaluation studies published in venues like Scientometrics, Research Evaluation and Information Processing & Management analyze SciELO’s role in knowledge diffusion, while policy analyses by OECD and UNESCO reference its model in broader discussions about research dissemination in Latin America.
Funding and partnerships have involved national agencies FAPESP, CAPES, CNPq and institutions such as Fiocruz, BIREME and regional university networks including REDE UniRede. International collaborations include ties with PAHO, UNESCO and funders such as European Commission programs and foundations like Rockefeller Foundation. Partnerships with publishers, indexing services and technology providers—examples include CrossRef, DOAJ and software communities around PKP—support sustainability, while bilateral agreements with universities and ministries underpin operational capacity.
Category:Academic publishing in Brazil