SciELO South Africa - Louise van Heerden
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Applying scientific thinkingin the service of society
SciELO SA NSEF meeting
9 September 2015
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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.
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SciELO SA
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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)
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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
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* 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
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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]