« A current search in the DOAJ database reveals that there are 916 journals from Latin America and the Caribbean that have been accepted after the implementation of stricter DOAJ criteria in March 2014. This represents approximately 16% of the journals that have gone through an evaluation process led by the…
« One of the operation principles of the SciELO network is the interoperability between national collections operating in a decentralized manner among each other and the products, services, indexes and scientific information repositories on the Web. The other principles are networking itself, as a means for the development and…
« (…) LA Referencia, in cooperation with COAR is working with OpenAIRE to achieve this. LA Referencia is an initiative of public science and technology organizations from nine Latin American countries that offers a regional Open Access repository aggregation service. In 2015 LA Referencia adopted major elements of…
« One of the most remarkable advances that have occurred in scholarly communication is the individualized publication of articles, either through journals that offer the articles as soon as they are approved and edited, avoiding waiting for the composition of a new issue, or through preprint repositories.
« Since repositories are a key tool in making scholarly knowledge open access, determining their presence and impact on the Web is essential, particularly in Google (search engine par excellence) and Google Scholar (a tool increasingly used by researchers to search for academic information). The few studies conducted so…
