Web access to social science journals in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean – the case of CLACSO´s network Dominique Babini CLACSO PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference, Vancouver, July 11-13, 2007

Contents Distribution of printed journals Opportunities for e-publishing Journals in the web: research results for 168 social science journals from 17 countries of Latin America & Caribbean Where How Trends and pending issues

in 21 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean The research has been done with journals from CLACSO´s network. CLACSO is….. . 195 social science research institutions (60% universities and 40% research ngo´s) in 21 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean Books Journals Conference papers Working documents

Difficulties in accessing the journals in bookstores and libraries Reduced number of copies printed High prices of postage Cost of inter-library loans Discontinuity journals library collections Se distribuyen en librerias…

Opportunities: e-publishing and e-libraries Online submission of documents Online Management of Publishing Web access to full-text Institutional website Journal website Digital library Portals

Creada en 2005 como órgano semestral de difusión de la actividad científica del Centro de Estudios Avanzados de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, una de las primeras univ. de AL? (tienen también revista impresa y otra digital)

Survey results 168 social science journals from 17 countries of Latin America & Caribbean

168 social science journals from 17 countries of Latin America & Caribbean Institions publishing the journals surveyed 62 % university journals 38% research ngo´s / gov. journals Journal format 88% print and digital 12% only digital Of these journals, 65% are published by universities and … Comeback of discontinued printed journals, this time in digital format only

El Colegio de Michoacán, México, vende online su revista impresa que ofrece también consulta del texto completo en pdf en la Web (pdf cerrado)

Journals in Portals

Journals in the web (168 social science journals from 17 countries of Latin America & Caribbean) Journals also in regional journal portals: 45 % Regional portals: CLACSO (social sciences: 400.000 downloads a month) Redalyc (all disciplines: 2 millon downloads a month) Scielo (all disciplines: 3 millon downloads a month) International portals: DOAJ, OJS, Unesco

Example of regional journal portal CLACSO´s Journal Portal

El portal de revistas es parte de la biblioteca virtual cooperativa de la red CLACSO que brinda acceso a 8.000 textos completos de libros, documentos de trabajo y revistas. Para las revistas de las instituciones que son miembros de CLACSO organizamos una biblioteca con buscador

Armamos las colecciones de revistas en una plataforma de software libre Greenstone que nos permite buscar en metadatos y en el texto completo

The article within context: journal index, journal cover, how to cite the article, …

Working Group and coordination office Journal editors + librarians: text processing Monthly news Sharing announcements Coordinating Office Cooperative digital library: developments and upgrades Text processing Statistics Training and technical support Decentralization

297 social science journals from Latin America, Spain and Portugal

27 peer-review social science journals

Pending issues for journals in the web All volumes Pdf for individual articles metadata “how to cite this article” search facility Preparation for harvesting Sustainability Online sales (subscription + individual articles) Maybe because of the cost of digitalization of complete collections…. Metadata is today a work done by the portals that gather a collection of journals and offers a “search” facility

www.clacso.org.ar/biblioteca biblioteca@clacso.edu.ar Dominique Babini Paula Sadier Flavia Medici Florencia Vergara Jessica Gonzalez