Redalyc: An Open Access Model from and for Latin America Arianna Becerril García
Jul 03, 2015
Redalyc: An Open Access Model from and for Latin America
Arianna Becerril García
Science that is not seen, does not exist.
Redalyc.org
440 publisher institutions
22 countries
Published JournalPrintedElectronic
2003
It was about VISIBILITY …
Published JournalPrintedElectronic
2005
But it was not enough …
Published JournalPrintedElectronic
2008
2014
AN ALTERNATIVE WAY TO LOOK AT SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION
Analyze the structure of
scholarly communicationIdentify
peers
Who is ‘using’ the
knowledge generated by
an institution?
What is the trend in the
internationalization of
scientific output?
Which are the most
influential journals in a
field?
How strong is the
cohesion among
institutions in terms of
collaboration?
Which fields represent the
institutional strenghts?
Indicators based on:- Internacionalization- Collaboration- Usage- Productivity
For: 151 countriesMore than 20,000 institutions
Countries
Metrics Institutions
Journals
Areas of knowledge
Concluding remarks
• A model to increase the visibilityof science generated in LatAm
• An alternative set of metrics tocharacterize research processesand categorize channels.
• Certification of quality
• Centralized platform thatenables comparisons
• Full text retrieval
• Professionalization of editorial processes
• A collaborative space of Open Access to research
¡ G r a c i a s !
ARIANNA BECERRIL GARCÍA
@ariannabec