SciELO adopts CC-BY as main Open Access attribution | SciELO in Perspective

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-06-26

Summary:

"SciELO is the most important Open Access program (OA) among developing and emerging countries and one of the leading worldwide. The pioneer adoption of OA in 1998 under the leadership of FAPESP, BIREME/PAHO/WHO and quality journals from scientific societies and academic institutions is a milestone in the development of the research and scholarly communication in Brazil. The SciELO model was adopted the same year by Chile and it has expanded as a network of journal collections that now covers 16 countries which, altogether, index about 1,000 journals and accumulate more than 500,000 Open Access articles. Since then, the adoption and implementation of OA has contributed decisively to increase the visibility of journals from Brazil and other countries of the SciELO Network. The publication in Open Access is an integral part of the principles and objectives of SciELO aiming the continuous improvement of the journals it indexes and the sustainable increase of use, influence and impact of the research they report. The development of SciELO is currently guided by lines of action on professionalization, internationalization and financial sustainability, which are reflected in the new SciELO Indexing Criteria published in September 2014. The formalization of the Open Access at the journals and articles level is one of the indexing criteria of SciELO. It is fulfilled through the adoption of access attribution of the Creative Commons (CC) system that encourage reuse and distribution of indexed articles in their collections. The license identified as CC-BY is defined as the main OA attribution by the new SciELO Criteria, replacing the previously adopted CC-BY-NC. With this decision, SciELO aligns with the leading journals and international Open Access publishers ..."

Link:

http://blog.scielo.org/en/2015/06/19/scielo-adopts-cc-by-as-main-open-access-attribution/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.cc oa.scielo oa.south oa.gold oa.libre oa.journals oa.announcements

Date tagged:

06/26/2015, 08:55

Date published:

06/26/2015, 04:55