Publishing platform
SciELO
Cooperative electronic publishing programme that hosts, marks up and publishes sixteen national journal collections.
How it connects
Who is behind it
- SciELO developed by Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information.
- SciELO funded by São Paulo Research Foundation. Created SciELO in 1997; since August 2024 it has co-funded it (47%) with CAPES (48%) and CNPq (5%) through a national consortium.
Builds on
- SciELO implements JATS.
Connects to
- LA Referencia indexes SciELO. LA Referencia indexes the national collections of SciELO.
Related to
- SciELO relates to Diamond open access. Runs journals under the diamond model.
Links
Details
Also known as: Scientific Electronic Library Online
Description
SciELO does not harvest metadata from elsewhere the way OpenAIRE or LA Referencia do: it hosts the full text, applies its own admission criteria and does the editorial markup.
Attributes
| url | https://www.scielo.org/ |
|---|---|
| identifiers | ror: 0431zrt90, wikidata: Q7433389 |
| status | active |
| governance | Nonprofit |
| outputLicence | open |
| codebase | mixed |
| prominence | core |
| note | Cooperative electronic publishing model and programme running sixteen national journal collections plus Preprints, Data and Books, with its own selection methodology and markup toolchain [M§6, specs.md §12 Q1(a)]. |
| type | Publishing platform |
| platformKind | journal-programme |
| fullTextHosted | yes |
| admissionCriteria | published |
| markupStandard | jats |
| Tags | function: publishing, region: Latin America, openness: open content |
| Geography | latam |
Sources
- https://www.scielo.org/en/about-scielo/program-publication-model-and-scielo-network/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12): Programme adopted in sixteen countries (16 national collections); publishing schema built on the JATS standard.
- https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/en/national-consortium-takes-over-management-and-funding-of-the-scielo-library/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12): Since August 2024 a consortium of FAPESP, CAPES and CNPq funds SciELO Brasil; a management committee with the three agencies governs it.
Last reviewed: 2026-11-12
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