SciELO News - no. 1 - February/2002 (fwd) Birdie MacLennan 01 Feb 2002 23:00 UTC
Of possible interest to SERIALST subscribers. Forwarded from: SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online <scielo@bireme.br> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 18:21:46 -0200 From: SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online <scielo@bireme.br> Subject: SciELO News - nº 1 - February/2002 Scientific Electronic Library Online SciELO News - nº 1 - February/2002 SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online (http://www.scielo.org) received the international recognition in its mission to promote the visibility, access, and credibility of the scientific publications produced in Brazil, Latin America and Caribbean. An investigation of two researchers from the University of Oxford, published this week in Nature (Regional network raises profile of local journals, Nature 415, 471-2, 31 jan. 2002) verifies that the impact factor of five Brazilian journals indexed on the ISI - Institute for Scientific Information had an average increase of 132,7%. That news represents a significant advance in the role of the electronic publication as a way of dissemination and assessment of the scientific communication in the developing countries, and reaffirms the importance of the SciELO network for the creation and consolidation of that scenario. The site SciELO Brasil (http://www.scielo.br), in operation since 1998, is already consolidated among the researchers as a reference for scientific research on the Internet and, among the editors, as a synonym of quality for the national scientific publication in electronic format. Its success created opportunities for the development of other national sites, as SciELO Chile and SciELO Cuba, and of the thematic site SciELO Public Health, which brings together newspapers of Latin America and Spain in the public health area. SciELO network soon will be joined by Spain, Portugal, Venezuela and Costa Rica, countries that already have adopted the model and should operate its national collections regularly in 2002. Related links: Electronic network boosts Southern journals http://www.scidev.net Regional network raises profile of local journals http://www.nature.com/login/scidev_login.taf?ref=/nature/journal/v415/n6871/full/415471c_fs.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SciELO is a project of FAPESP- Fundação of Protection à Investigation do State of São Paulo in collaboration with BIREME- Latin-American and do Caribbean Center of Informação em Ciências gives Saúde. SciELO News is the electronic informative bulletin of the SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online, distributed monthly to the users subscribed to this service. In order to subscribe, send doubts, criticisms or suggestions, write to scielo@bireme.br