SciELO Portugal adds 8 more journals and 100 articles

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

Alongside the expansion of the database, SciELO Portugal has implemented new Criteria for Admission, Inclusion, and Permanence in the Collection, which provide for a structural change in the format of articles from HTML to XML. This change will be required for new publications and will also be applied retroactively. The transition to XML aims to streamline the search and access to articles, making them more easily catalogued in databases.

SciELO is an electronic repository founded in Brazil as a database of free open access scientific publications, with the aim of enabling 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 of the Portuguese section of the repository, which began in 2021 and, in addition to the above, involved changes to facilitate the submission of journals and articles for publication, sought to respond to the priority given by the FCT to the implementation of Open Science principles and practices, 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.