The SciELO Network publishes more than 500,000 articles in open access during its 17 years of operation | SciELO in Perspective

"The SciELO Network began 2015 with a record number of more than 500,000 articles indexed and published online in open access. This milestone is the result of the ongoing publication of the 13 journal collections which have been certified by the network, which this coming March celebrates 17 years of operation since its launch in 1998. This post summarizes the current structure of the SciELO Network. A more in-depth and detailed analysis of the evolution and development of the SciELO Program and the SciELO Network itself is documented in a book published jointly by UNESCO and SciELO1 as part of the 15 Year Program celebrations which took place in October 20132 ... There are 16 national collections from 13 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, plus South Africa, Spain and Portugal, and 2 thematic collections. Amongst the national collections, 12 are certified since they adhere to the operating criteria for network sites which were established by the SciELO methodology. Of the two thematic collections, the Public Health collection is certified and contains 16 journals broken down as follows: ten from Latin American national collections, two from Spain, one from Italy, one from the USA and two from the World Health Organization. The Social Sciences collection, an experiment whose purpose was the translation into English of articles selected from social science journals published in Latin America, was discontinued in 2010.  The scielo.org portal hosts all the collections, their journals and articles, and offers search functionality, access to the texts themselves and interoperability.  Since its creation, more than 1,200 titles have been indexed by the SciELO Network. Of these, around 1,040 remain active. However, this number drops down to just over 800 when onlyjournals whose publication has been ongoing within the last six months are taken into account. This is the criterion which has been laid down for participation in the SciELO Citation Index (SciELO CI) on the Web of Science platform ..."