How is science indexed in Latin America?
9 steps
The same steps, as a list:
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Step 1
Latindex is a network of national centres that, since 1997, has assessed and given visibility to Ibero-American journals. UNAM hosts it.
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Step 2
Redalyc, run by a Mexican university, publishes Latin American journals in open access without charging authors.
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Step 3
Its model is diamond open access, free for readers and authors. It is the most widespread model in the region.
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Step 4
SciELO hosts, marks up and publishes the full text of sixteen national journal collections, under its own admission criteria.
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Step 5
SciELO began in Brazil in 1997, created by FAPESP with BIREME's technical methodology.
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Step 6
LA Referencia gathers articles and theses from repositories in eleven Latin American countries and Spain, and indexes SciELO's collections.
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Step 7
In Chile, Espacio Ciencia, run by ANID, brings institutional repositories together and is the national node of LA Referencia.
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Step 8
Since 2016 LA Referencia has used the guidelines of OpenAIRE, the European infrastructure, and interoperates with it.