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ISSN 2318-1958

Issue 07, November 1st, 2013

The SciELO 15 Years Conference is a milestone in SciELO’s History


The results of the SciELO 15 Years Conference were very positive and represent a milestone in the history of the SciELO Program. On the one hand, the conference widely reaffirmed SciELO’s importance and, on the other hand, it brought out new challenges and possibilities for its future development. [Read more]

Highlights

Interview with Mark Patterson


Mark Patterson, the keynote speaker of SciELO 15 Years Conference, describes how eLife is consolidating the idea that science communication is an integral part – one of the most important – of academic research through open access publication of outstanding content selected by a select group of researchers. The researcher will also talk about the recent controversial article on open access published by Science. Patterson attributes to SciELO the growing visibility and quality of Latin America journals.

Impact – Nature’s Viewpoint: comments on special issue 502 (7471) 17th October, 2013

 
The journal Impact Factor as measured by citations is a relevant yet insufficient measure in the evaluation of projects by national research funding agencies. Without denying this objective measure and the importance it has, a consensus is emerging that the social and economic impact of research funded by these agencies must also be evaluated.

Controversial Article in The Journal “Science” exposes the weaknesses of Peer-Review in a set of Open Access Journals

 
Just before celebrating the Open Access Week worldwide, a controversial article published on Science exposed the recurrent question of the weaknesses of the peer review process in scientific communication. The paper focus on the selection of journals which collect article processing fees and describes how 304 versions of a fictitious article containing serious and obvious flaws were accepted in 157 open access journals, many already considered predatory. This post describes the experiment and gathers comments from international blogs.

The Evolution of Open Access: a brief history


Meet some key events in the evolution of Open Access, which already has a history that goes back over 30 years.

Interview with José Adolfo Rodríguez Gallardo


UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – National Autonomous University of Mexico), which figures prominently in the academic ouptut of Latin America, and CONACYT – National Council of Science and Technology, have created a working group to improve Mexico’s academic publications. UNAM coordinates SciELO Mexico and for the past 30 years has been producing the CLASE, PERIODICA and Latindex databases which cover all areas of knowledge. As of 2006, it is promoting Open Access journals and repositories. 
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