[BOAI] Redalyc an OA initiative

[Reme Melero]

( Apologize for cross-postings)



Last week was held in Valdivia, Chile, the second congress of Redalyc 
editors. During the meeting were presented the new services and products 
developed by Redalyc team to support their journals . Redalyc ( 
http://redalyc.uaemex.mx <http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/> ) is a Network of 
Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean countries, 
Spain and Portugal, created initially by the Autonomous University of 
Mexico State (UAEM), with the aim of contributing to the dissemination, 
access and visibility of journals published in those countries. Redalyc 
subjects journals to an evaluation based on a set of 36 quality criteria 
related to formal and content issues. Journals have to complain with at 
least 82% of those criteria ( 
http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/media/principal/auxHemeroteca/criterios.html 
) including OA to full text. Redalyc has adopted the Open Journal System 
(OJS) as the model for journal management and publication and developed 
a sort of innovative services built upon the journals, such as the 
scientific atlas, statistics and networks among institutions, authors 
and countries or disciplines based on articles published in journals 
under the umbrella of Redalyc. Those services have not been developed to 
create a ranking or index but to allow managers or assessors to have 
more indicators based on multivariable relationships. The 'atlas 
cienciométrico' ['sciencemetric atlas'] is a still under a beta version 
to allow users testing it ( 
http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/media/microSitios/desarrollos/ ).

Redalyc's role in the dissemination of scientific outputs and OA 
advocacy in Ibero-American countries has been enormously valuable. 
Besides, Redalyc quality stamp is considered by some countries in their 
research evaluation assessment exercises. In summary, Redalyc is a 
collaborative project which provides not only hosting  but disseminate 
OA principles and provide very riche and  high quality services. 
Journals in Ibero-America have increased their visibility, quality and 
interoperability thanks to this initiative.


Good afternoon!

Reme


R. Melero
Científico Titular
IATA, CSIC
Member of Redalyc Scientific Council

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