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1. Developing countries face dissemination barriers that affects local scientific production.
Scientific American, August 1995, p 76-83 (Wayt Gibbt)
> Excluded from ISI (JCR) indexing and citation system.
> Few journals are read in or outside their country.

2. Latin America: More than 590 million people. Over 20 countries.
Over 2,500 universities and more than 7,000 other
(non-university) higher education institutions.

3. a. Universia (http://ocw.universia.net). Network of more
than 1000 universities (10 million students). It promotes
MIT OCW materials translated. Over 70 Latin American
universities (10 countries).
b. Temoa (www.temoa.info ) public and multilingual
catalogue that indexes more than 100,000 OER.
c. LA DOAJ: SciELO (www.scielo.org) and REDALYC
(http://redalyc.uaemex.mx). Each one includes more
than 600 journal titles (over 200,000 articles).
Ranking Web of World Repositories: (SciELO) Brasil the largest free, open access portals of
scientific information worldwide.

4. SciELO - Scientific Electronic SciElo enables:
Library Online (1998): facilitate - Searching,
15 nations + South-South Cooperation
cooperative electronic - Preserving and
publishing of scientific (peer - Monitoring scientific
review) journals. literature.
SiELO network (federation) is It includes over 760 journals,
based on national ~300,000 articles.
infrastructures (future Impact factor: Over 6 million
sustainability). granted citation.
Over than 12 million articles
accessed per month.
Goal: To foster the national
scientific research (expanding
the visibility, accessibility and SiELO: Compatible with international
credibility) of the LA&C standards (Web of
Science, Scopus, Crossref, Google
scientific publications. Scholar, PubMed, DOAJ).

5. Big - visibility
Publish or perish? Visible reuse & production of
licensed (institutional) OER.
SciELO OPEN ACCESS increased the indexed articles
readership and citations (visibility) local
scientific production.
Freedom of access also enhances
flexibility (disciplinary and contextual) of
resources.
Scientists now can bypass traditional
publication routes by using new means to Little – visibility
disseminate their academic production. Reuse of digital resources.
Non indexed articles
Academics need to make their ideas:
Available (not locked behind paywalls),
Spreadable: (readable & engaging)
Boosting opportunities for global
knowledge exchange.

6. @cristobalcobo
http://tiny.cc/ppts
Oxford Internet Institute Research Fellow.

7. A large percentage of journals of SciELO are not included in the
DOAJ (because of lack self-archiving policies), and its publishers are
not included in SHERPA/RoMEO (Miguel. et al, 2011).
Packer; the cost per published
article is US $60 for the Scientific
Electronic Library Online (SciELO)
portal (Björk, 2011).