The SciELO Open Access: A Gold Way from the South
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2009
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| author | Packer, Abel L. |
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| contents | The SciELO Open Access: A Gold Way from the South Packer, Abel L. Access to Information Electronic Libraries Foreign Countries Global Approach Scholarship Open Source Technology Electronic Publishing Electronic Journals Open access has long emphasized access to scholarly materials. However, open access can also mean access to the means of producing visible and recognized journals. This issue is particularly important in developing and emergent countries. The SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library On-line) project, first started in Brazil and, shortly afterward, in Chile, offers a prime example of how this form of access to publishing was achieved and how open access in the traditional sense was incorporated within it. Open access has allowed more visibility, transparency, and credibility for the SciELO journals that now span over a dozen countries, three continents, and more than 600 titles. Conversely, SciELO incarnates the most successful and impressive example of "gold OA," that is, open access based on publishing rather than self-archiving; at the same time, its database acts like an open-access depository. |
| format | Recurso educativo Open Access |
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| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2009 |
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| spellingShingle | The SciELO Open Access: A Gold Way from the South Packer, Abel L. Access to Information Electronic Libraries Foreign Countries Global Approach Scholarship Open Source Technology Electronic Publishing Electronic Journals The SciELO Open Access: A Gold Way from the South Packer, Abel L. Access to Information Electronic Libraries Foreign Countries Global Approach Scholarship Open Source Technology Electronic Publishing Electronic Journals Open access has long emphasized access to scholarly materials. However, open access can also mean access to the means of producing visible and recognized journals. This issue is particularly important in developing and emergent countries. The SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library On-line) project, first started in Brazil and, shortly afterward, in Chile, offers a prime example of how this form of access to publishing was achieved and how open access in the traditional sense was incorporated within it. Open access has allowed more visibility, transparency, and credibility for the SciELO journals that now span over a dozen countries, three continents, and more than 600 titles. Conversely, SciELO incarnates the most successful and impressive example of "gold OA," that is, open access based on publishing rather than self-archiving; at the same time, its database acts like an open-access depository. |
| title | The SciELO Open Access: A Gold Way from the South |
| topic | Access to Information Electronic Libraries Foreign Countries Global Approach Scholarship Open Source Technology Electronic Publishing Electronic Journals |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ904266 |