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| SciELO Spain-Portugal | |
|---|---|
| Name | SciELO Spain-Portugal |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Madrid; Lisbon |
| Mission | To provide open access to Iberian scholarly journals |
SciELO Spain-Portugal is a regional scholarly publishing platform created to aggregate, index, and disseminate academic journals from Spain and Portugal. It functions within a networked landscape alongside institutions and initiatives such as Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidade de Lisboa, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain), and Direção-Geral do Ensino Superior (Portugal). The platform aligns with European initiatives including OpenAIRE, Plan S, Horizon Europe, European Research Council, and complements bibliographic resources like Dialnet, REVISTA Española de Documentación Científica, and Directory of Open Access Journals.
SciELO Spain-Portugal emerged from earlier national and regional digitization efforts linked to projects such as Redalyc, Latindex, SciELO Brasil, SciELO Chile, and SciELO Portugal (predecessor projects). Initial planning involved collaborations among universities including Universidad de Barcelona, Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad de Valencia, and Universidade do Porto, as well as funding and policy input from European Commission frameworks and national agencies like Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Launch events and pilot phases connected partners such as Real Academia Española, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, and professional associations in disciplines represented by journals indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, and PubMed Central. Over successive phases the platform incorporated metadata standards promoted by CrossRef, ORCID, DOAJ, and Sherpa/RoMEO.
Governance draws on a consortium model involving higher education institutions and research funders including Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, and regional bodies like Comunidad de Madrid institutions. Administrative oversight references frameworks from European University Association recommendations and interoperability guidance from World Wide Web Consortium. Editorial and technical committees include representatives from learned societies such as Real Sociedad Española de Física, Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática, and cultural institutions such as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Persistent identifier practices rely on partnerships with CrossRef and contributor identification through ORCID.
The platform's objectives include enhancing visibility for Iberian-language and Portugal-origin scholarship, facilitating compliance with funder mandates from Horizon Europe and Plan S, and enabling integration with continental discovery services such as COAR and OpenCitations. Its scope spans peer-reviewed journals from Spanish and Portuguese institutions, aiming to balance representation across publishers including university presses like Editorial Universidad de Granada and professional publishers such as Asociación Española de Editores de Publicaciones Científicas. It targets disciplines represented in national evaluation schemes like ANECA and FCT assessment panels, while supporting multilingual scholarship in collaboration with networks like European Science Foundation.
Participating titles encompass a range of journals historically associated with institutions such as Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidade de Coimbra, Universidade do Minho, Universidad de Málaga, and specialized societies including Sociedad Española de Cardiología and Associação Portuguesa de Neurociências. Disciplines range from humanities titles tied to Real Academia de la Historia and Instituto Cervantes partners, to health science journals connected with Hospital La Paz, Hospital Santa Maria (Lisbon), and legal scholarship anchored in faculties like Facultad de Derecho (Universidad Complutense). Coverage also includes social science outlets with ties to Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas-style institutes and STEM journals linked to laboratories associated with CSIC and Portuguese research units funded by FCT.
Open access policy aligns with mandates from Plan S signatories and follows metadata and license norms advocated by Creative Commons and SPARC Europe. Typical licensing models used by participating journals include Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC), and selective use of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). The platform supports deposit and linking practices consistent with CrossRef DOI registration and archives content in repositories interoperable with infrastructures such as CLOCKSS and national archives administered by entities like Biblioteca Nacional de España and Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal.
The technical stack leverages open-source publishing software and interoperability standards championed by Open Journal Systems, OAI-PMH, and Schema.org metadata vocabularies promoted by Google Scholar indexing. Indexing relationships extend to global services such as Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed Central, and European aggregators including OpenAIRE and Europe PMC. Persistent identifiers (DOI) and author identifiers (ORCID) ensure citation linking and cross-platform discoverability, while metadata curation adheres to recommendations from CrossRef and preservation workflows coordinate with LOCKSS.
Impact assessment uses citation indicators reported in databases such as Scopus and Web of Science alongside alternative metrics captured via platforms like Altmetric and institutional repositories managed by universities including Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and Universidade de Aveiro. Usage metrics include downloads and views aggregated for benchmarking against national evaluation criteria used by ANECA and funding reports submitted to FCT. The platform supports transparent reporting compatible with evaluation frameworks from European Research Council panels and metrics initiatives such as DORA and Metric Tide.
Category:Open access publishing