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Scholarly Publishing in Latin America: Navigating Challenges and Embracing Opportunities

Explore the growth, problems, and transition to electronic publishing in Latin American scholarly work, emphasizing quality control, findability, and sustainability for academics.

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Scholarly Publishing in Latin America: Navigating Challenges and Embracing Opportunities

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  1. A lifeboat doesn’t do you any good if it’s not there when you need it Ian Johnson ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  2. OVERVIEW • ALFA project REVISTAS • Scholarly publishing in Latin America • Transition to electronic publishing • Emerging issues ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  3. ALFA • América Latina Formación Académica • Academic links • 3+ Universities in Latin America • 3+ Universities in European Union ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  4. REVISTAS – REd VIrtualSobre Todaslas AmericaS ‘JOURNALS – a virtual network across the Americas’ ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  5. GROWTH IN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING IN LATIN AMERICA • 74,000 ISSNs • 50-60% increase in ISSN records in 5 countries, 2001-6 • 15,000 scholarly titles in Latindex • Significant under-recording of output ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  6. PROBLEMS IN THE PRESENT SYSTEM • Best researchers do not publish in Latin American journals • Quality, distribution, access, impact • Awareness of developments is limited • Pedagogy makes little use of journals • Innovation and professional development inhibited ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  7. THE TRANSITION TO ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING • SciELO • Institutional publishers • Aggregators • RedALyC • LivRE • Growing investment by commercial publishers • Grupo Oceano, EBSCOHost, Thomson Learning, Dialnet, ProQuest ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  8. VISIBILITY • Researchers’ goals • Visibility and impact • Exposure to substantial, high quality audience with related interests • Challenges for Open Access • Quality control • Findability • Sustainability ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  9. QUALITY CONTROL • Institutional funding • No incentive to: • Control quality of content • Raise visibility and impact • >2% in SciELO • Growing use of SEER in Brazil • Peer review module? • Supply of content is weak ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  10. FINDABILITY • Poor coverage in generalist, international indexes • ISI • OCLC • SciELO • Clase and Periodica • SCOPUS • Clase and Periodica? • Failure of coverage in regional, national or subject indexes ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  11. LIS JOURNALS IN SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE • 299+ LIS serials in Spanish and Portuguese • 220+ originating in Latin America • INFOBILA indexes c.60 • Includes 90+ full-text online • 48+ originating in Latin America • INFOBILA indexes 2 ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  12. AGGREGATOR COVERAGE OF OPEN ACCESS LIS e-JOURNALS ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  13. SUSTAINABILITY • Institutional support • No guaranteed funding • Continual, regular publication? • Awareness? • Search engines and metadata? • Preservation? ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  14. LESSONS FROM LATIN AMERICA • Converting to Open Access online has not eliminated weaknesses in the scholarly publishing system • Challenges in developing Open Access successfully • Assuring visibility for authors • Ensuring quality • Organising findability • Supporting preservation ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

  15. http://www.rgu.ac.uk/abs Thank you for your attentionQuestions?Comments? ElPub 2007, Vienna, June 2007

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