Development and operation of the SciELO program and the SciELO Brazil Collection

• Grant number: 08/00838-6
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2008
• End date: March 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Rogerio Meneghini
• Grantee: Rogerio Meneghini
• Host Institution: Fundação de Apoio à Universidade Federal de São Paulo (FAP-UNIFESP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project has the objective to continue the development and operation of the SciELO Program and SciELO Brazil Collection, that in 2007 has reached its 10 years of non-stop operation, with an acknowledge success in the compliment of its objectives in raising and supporting the visibility, accessibility, quality, usage, and impact of quality journals from Brazil and other Ibero-American countries, published in their respective, national and thematic collection in SciELO Network. In the end of 2007, SciELO Network operates 16 national and thematic collections of journals in open access, which 10 are certified in a total of 500 journals and 157 thousands articles. The SciELO Brazil Collection is the most important on the network, scoring in the final of 2007 a total of 203 titles, being 191 current titles and 95.411 articles, more than 20 thousands articles yearly published, with a monthly average of 7,2 million article visits. The Brazilian journals indexed at SciELO and ISI JCR in the last 10 years had an average raise of 2,65 in the impact factor, in 2006, for the first time, three journals scored an impact factor above 1. In the next three years the SciELO Brazil Collection will operate about 230 titles, including 20 thousands new articles and 10 thousands retrospectives per year, with an average monthly access to articles superior then 10 million with the possibility to score an impact factor above 1 in 5 journals in the ISI JCR. The SciELO Network will totalize, at least, 750 titles, more than 40 thousands articles per year. The project implantation in 3 years, targets the consolidation of SciELO as reference of Brazil and Ibero-American journal publication and it's organized in 6 action lines: a. - management and organization improvement of the program in metapublisher condition; b. - SciELO portal operation integrating access, search and all of the network collections and articles including specialized services; c. - the SciELO Brazil Collection operation, promotion and contribution to the others national and thematic collection; d. - the expansion of SciELO Network to other world regions; e. - technological platform maintenance and updating to the state of art; and f. - marketing and promotion. By these 6 action lines, the project details the expected results, macro-activities and budget lines. (AU)