WG 1

About

The SciELO Network has been developing for 20 years as a remarkable international cooperation in scholarly communication in open access. The network consists of national collections of journals published by scientific societies, professional associations, universities and other educational institutions selected according to indexing criteria based on international standards and good practices of scientific publishing. In 2018, the network operates in 15 Ibero-American countries and South Africa. In most of these countries the SciELO collections reflect the implanting of national policies to support the advancement of research and its communication with emphasis on nationally published journals which are financed and led by governmental research funding agencies.

International cooperation is based on the common understanding that nationally produced quality journals fulfill essential functions in national scientific production systems, such as research communication with national or regional focus on the objects of study, priorities and target audiences, and the development of research disciplines and communities, particularly with regard to education and scientific communication infrastructures and capacities, and, from previously mentioned functions, to actively participate in the global flow of scientific information. SciELO journals are from different disciplines and, besides English, they publish research results in the national languages ​​of SciELO Network. SciELO also emphasizes that the ability to publish quality journals is an essential part of the ability of doing quality research.

The SciELO Network is decentralized in its governance, financing and operation. It is structured by a set of principles, objectives and common functions that make up the SciELO Program. The principles refer, firstly, to the conception of scientific knowledge as a public good, best performed by open access communication, secondly, networking to maximize contributions and earnings, and thirdly, by adopting the state of the art with adherence to standards, quality control and innovations in all the stages of research communication. The specific objectives are to actively promote the sustainable increase of editorial quality, visibility, use and impact of journals and the research they communicate. The objectives are achieved through the strengthening and development of national scientific communication infrastructures and capacities. The functions include, firstly, indexing focusing on the selectivity of quality journals and performance follow up, secondly, the storage, preservation and publication of metadata and full texts, and, thirdly, dissemination and interoperability. The methodological and technological implementation of the principles, objectives and functions of the program conform the SciELO Publishing Model.

The main purpose of the Working Group (WG) is to share the development status of the national collections of the SciELO Network, contextualized in the national science and technology system and in the national policies to support journals and to enhance the value of SciELO journals in national research evaluation systems. The WG will also discuss the progress of the national collections according to priority lines of action for the years 2019 – 2023 that is characterized by the adoption of good practices of scientific communication and alignment with research communication in open science. Finally, the WG will also address the updating of methodologies and technologies of the SciELO Publishing Model. The analyzes and debate will be led by representatives of national collections, journal editors and specialists. The group will also be attended by representatives of other national open access journal programs.

How to contribute

You are invited to participate and cooperate with the SciELO 20 Years celebration with comments, testimonies, blog posts, articles, etc, related to the topic of this or other working groups.

Bibliography

DOAJ. Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing [online]. DOAJ, 15 Jan. 2018. Available from: https://doaj.org/bestpractice

Documents

SCIENTIFIC ELECTRONIC LIBRARY ONLINE. Criteria, policies and procedures for the admission and permanence of scientific journals in the SciELO <country> Collection [online]. SciELO 20 Years. 2018 [viewed on 18 September 2018]. Available from: https://www.scielo20.org/redescielo/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/SciELO-Network-Criteria-2018-EN.pdf

SCIENTIFIC ELECTRONIC LIBRARY ONLINE. Guia de citação de dados de pesquisa [online]. SciELO 20 Anos. 2018 [viewed 20 September 2018]. Available from: https://www.scielo20.org/redescielo/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/Guia-de-citação-de-dados_pt.pdf

SCIENTIFIC ELECTRONIC LIBRARY ONLINE. Guide to Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publishing [online]. SciELO. 2018 [viewed 18 September 2018]. Available from: http://www.scielo.org/local/File/Guide%20to%20Best%20Practices%20for%20Strengthening%20Ethics%20in%20Scientific%20Publishing.pdf

SCIENTIFIC ELECTRONIC LIBRARY ONLINE. Guide to promoting the opening, transparency and reproducibility of research published by SciELO journals [online]. SciELO 20 Years. 2018 [viewed on 18 September 2018]. Available from: https://www.scielo20.org/redescielo/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/Guia-TOP-SciELO_en.pdf

SCIENTIFIC ELECTRONIC LIBRARY ONLINE. Lista de repositórios para depósito de dados de pesquisa [online]. SciELO. 2018 [viewed 18 September 2018]. Available from: https://www.scielo20.org/redescielo/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/Lista-de-Repositórios-Recomendados-SciELO-Brasil.pdf

SCIENTIFIC ELECTRONIC LIBRARY ONLINE. SciELO – Priority lines of action 2019-2023 [online]. SciELO 20 Years. 2018 [viewed on 18 September 2018]. Available from: https://www.scielo20.org/redescielo/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/09/Líneas-prioritaris-de-acción-2019-2023_en.pdf

SCIENTIFIC ELECTRONIC LIBRARY ONLINE. SciELO Guidelines: The Peer Review Process in Journal Publishing. Version September 2018 [viewed on 18 September 2018]. Available from: https://docs.google.com/document/d/ 1iTmddgQqqbZGqBLHst1r40mowkCsAHEpKcNhtYIGnW0/edit?usp=sharing

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