[GOAL] Launching of REDIB Ibero-American Network for Innovation and Scientific Knowledge

["Ramón B. Rodríguez"]

Dear colleagues,

I would like to announce the launching of the platform REDIB Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico (Ibero-American Network for Innovation and Scientific Knowledge), available at https://www.redib.org <https://www.redib.org/>  (check https://www.redib.org/en <https://www.redib.org/en> for the English version).

REDIB is a platform for the aggregation of scientific and academic content in electronic format, produced in the Ibero-American space. REDIB has a clear purpose: promoting technological innovation in publishing tools, to access to, and to facilitate the dissemination of scientific work produced in the countries of reference, particularly in the various Ibero-American languages. The recipients of this information are the academic community and society at large, as well as those responsible for scientific policies. Internet ensures this information has global reach.

REDIB uses a single portal to provide users direct access to scientific and academic documents of confirmed quality, generated by Publishers and other producers of scientific and academic content in the Ibero-American countries, or related to Ibero-American matters either geographically, socially or culturally.

Publishers, as managers, first reviewers and main disseminators of the scientific work, represent the key element in the platform. As a consequence of this leading role, REDIB provides users with direct and transparent access to the content produced by the Publishers on its original website, respecting and highlighting their identity. At the same time, REDIB aims to promote modernization and the implementation of new publishing technologies, providing information, support and a meeting place for Publishers to exchange experiences and knowledge directly.

REDIB wants to stand out for a philosophy of cooperative work: access to content in the site where it was originally produced, Publishers working together voluntarily, and transparency in the process of communication between users and the producers of the information. REDIB also aims to foster technological innovation to manage and locate scientific information, and to generate ties between publishers and other producers of academic content, authors and users.

REDIB's objectives are:

 

o To strengthen and professionalize online scientific publishing, encouraging and supporting Publishers in adopting the most appropriate and innovative tools to produce content in standardized and interoperable formats, thereby achieving greater fluency in information dissemination and processing.

o To establish prior editorial quality filters for the participating Publishers, as a way of recognizing best practice and protecting users from the proliferation of pseudoscientific content on the Internet.

o To consolidate a system of bibliographic information that enables the generation of publishing and scientific quality indicators.

o To contribute to implement new criteria for technical publishing quality, such as: use of specific programs for publishing and disseminating scientific content enabling information interoperability; use of identifiers that ensure continuous access to content; standardization of authorship; and use of new electronic publishing formats, amongst others.

 

Hope you will find this information and new resource useful.

 

RB Rodriguez

CSIC / REDIB

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Ramón B. Rodríguez, PhD
Director, CSIC Press
Vitruvio 8, E-28006 Madrid
Tel. +34 91 568 1634
Ext. CSIC: 991 634

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