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