SciELO Portugal integrates 8 more journals and 100 more articles

SciELO Portugal, in the context of a restructuring that involved the transfer of management to FCT in June of this year, has recently added eight new scientific journals and 100 new open access articles to its collection. The journals now included cover a range of areas, from health to sociology and political science, and fifteen other publications are expected to be added soon.

Alongside the expansion of the database, SciELO Portugal has implemented the new Criteria for Admission, Inclusion and Permanence in the Collection, which include a structural change in the format of articles, from HTML to XML, which, in addition to being required for new publications, will be applied retrospectively. The move to XML is intended to speed up searches and access to articles, making them easier to catalog in databases.

SciELO is an electronic repository founded in Brazil as a free open-access database of scientific publications, with the aim of allowing the dissemination of scientific activity in an alternative model to paid publications. Since its creation in 1997, several other South American countries have joined the project, as well as Portugal in 2005 and Spain. The restructuring that began in 2021 on the Portuguese side of the repository, which, in addition to the above, involved changes that facilitate the submission of journals and articles for publication, sought to respond to the priority given by FCT to the implementation of the principles and practices of Open Science, allowing the results of scientific research carried out in Portugal to be disseminated free of charge, with the social and economic benefits that this implies.

The list of new journals included in the repository and additional information can be found here.