Applying scientific thinking

in 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 Online

SciELO 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 )

louise@assaf.org.za