scielo south africa - louise van heerden
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Applying scientific thinkingin the service of society
SciELO SA NSEF meeting
9 September 2015
SciELO SA
The SciELO SA open access project is one of the Scholarly Publishing Unit projects at ASSAf
SciELO = Scientific Electronic Library OnlineSciELO SA = 1 of the 14 SciELO Network
collections.
SciELO SA
SciELO SA
SciELO SA was established as a recommendation of the report
“Strategic approach to scholarly publishing” and engagement stakeholders such as
the DST, DHET and NRF.
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Mandate
• At the request of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) the SciELO SA Collection was established by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
• SciELO SA is funded by DST• It is endorsed by the Department of Higher
Education and Training (DHET) through its accredited indexes
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SciELO SA
• SciELO SA is a full-text searchable database of selected, high-quality South African
open access scholarly journals. • The main focus is global dissemination of
open access journal content.
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SciELO SA Purpose
Purpose of SciELO SA: To increase the visibility, accessibility, indexibility and impact of South African scholarly journals.
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The SciELO Citation Index (SCI) is part of the WoS Portal
(Note that the SCI is not part of the WoS Core Collection)
SciELO SA Usage
To date, texts in the SciELO SA open access collection have been viewed more than three million times
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100% increase
* Aim to add one title per month
Size of the SciELO SA Collection
End-Aug 2014 End-Aug 2015
Titles 41 58 * (+17)
Journal issues
529 1 051(doubled)
Articles 8 844 15 967
New developments in the collection
From 2016 the SciELO Network recommends the following for all SciELO Collections:
• the introduction of XML files to increase interoperability between international indexes
• the introduction of Creative Commons licences • the introduction of DOIs for all SciELO journals
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To enquire about joining SciELO SA email Louise van Heerden
(SciELO SA Operations Manager ) [email protected]