Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico

"The REDIB uses a single portal to give users direct access to scientific and academic documents of confirmed quality, put out by publishers and other producers of scientific and academic content in Ibero-American countries or relating to Ibero-American issues, either geographically or culturally.  As managers, first evaluators and disseminators of scientific work, scientific publishers represent the key element of and participant in the platform. As a consequence of playing this leading role, the REDIB provides users with direct and transparent access to the content put out by the publisher on its original site, respecting and highlighting its identity. At the same time, the REDIB aims to promote modernisation and the implementation of new publishing technologies, providing information, support and a meeting place for publishers to exchange experiences and knowledge directly.  The REDIB wants to stand out for a philosophy of cooperative work: access to content in the place it was originally produced, publishers working together voluntarily, and transparency in the process of communication between information users and producers. It also aims to foster technological innovation to manage and locate scientific information, and to generate ties between publishers and other producers of academic content, authors and users ..."