This presentation was provided by Carolina Tanigushi of SciELO, during the NISO Hot Topic Virtual Conference "Building an Equitable, Global Research Community." The event was held on October 26, 2022.

1. Carolina Tanigushi
Jr Visual Programmer
Building an Equitable, Global Research
Community
NISO Virtual Conference – Oct. 26, 2022
Case Study

2. Agenda
1. The SciELO Model
2. SciELO Products
3. The new SciELO Brazil Criteria (Sept/2022)
4. Open Science and DEIA Principles Lines of Action
5. Science Communication and Marketing
6. Final Thoughts

3. The SciELO Model

4. The SciELO Model
SciELO was created in 1997 as a publically funded open access web-
based library with a publishing model with the goals to index, preserve,
improve and increase visibility of peer reviewed journals.
• 17 national and Public Health collections
• Over 1,200 journals indexed
• SciELO Books collection
• SciELO Preprints server
• SciELO Data repository.

6. Principles of the SciELO Program
1. Scientific knowledge as a national and global public good;
2. [Working as a network] at all levels as a means of maximizing
scalability in terms of cost-effectiveness in adopting the state of the
art in scientific publishing, cooperation and management of
asymmetries between Collections, subject areas and journals;
3. Quality control, scientific and ethical rigor, compliance with
standards and good editorial practices throughout the flow of
scholarly communication.

7. In summary…
The publishing model serves as a framework for national public policies
for the development of peer-reviewed journals at the same time being
part of an international network following the state of art in scientific
communication.
The SciELO Network embodies a program of international cooperation
for the progress of research and its open communication with its sight
set towards an inclusive global flow of scientific information that
considers the diversity of geographies, thematic areas, cultures,
multilingualism.

8. In practice, this means that
One of the most important aspects of the way SciELO operates is to
empower journals to improve their editorial practices.
• Encouraging/recommending the adoption of open science practices
since 2020;
• Offering tools that allow for the professionalization of the journals
and editorial teams;
• Development of educational webinars and user-facing
documentation;
• Development of guidelines for journals.

9. The SciELO Brazil Collection

10. The SciELO Brazil Collection
314 active journals
All areas of knowledge
• Central-West (21)
• North (2)
• Northeast (12)
• South (49)
• Southeast (230)

11. The SciELO Brazil Collection
The institution/organization that owns the journals indexed in the
Brazil Collection are scientifically and legally responsible for all the
aspects of their publications.
Historically, there’s a predominance of national authorship, but the
number of international authors has been increasing.
As far as multilingualism goes, articles are mainly in Portuguese and
English, and this varies a lot depending on the area of knowledge.

14. The SciELO Preprints Server

15. The SciELO Preprints Server
• Went live in April 2020 as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Runs on Open Preprint Systems, developed by the Public Knowledge
Project (PKP).
• Open for preprint review.
• Nearly 2,000 preprints posted, most of which are from South
American researchers.
• Currently over 600 postprints, mainly from SciELO Brazil and
Ecuador.
• Accrued over 6 million preprint views (abstract + PDF views).

16. The SciELO Preprints Server

17. The SciELO Preprints Server

18. The SciELO Preprints Server
Journal Educação em Revista, in July/21 started requiring authors to
deposit articles in a preprint server before submitting.

19. The SciELO Data Repository

20. The SciELO Data Repository
Went live in August 2020, was operating in beta until January 2022.
Runs on Dataverse, developed by the Institute for Quantitative Social
Science (IQSS), Harvard.
Journals indexed in the any collection of the SciELO Network can create
their own Dataverse within the repository and currently there are:
• 30 Dataverses;
• Nearly 200 datasets.

21. The SciELO Data Repository

22. The SciELO Data Repository

23. The SciELO Data Repository

24. SciELO Books

25. SciELO Books
Publishes both OA and non-OA books
• Total: 1.713
• Open Access: 1.079
• Non-Open Access: 634
21 active book publishers (17 Brazil, 1 Ecuador, 3 Colombia)
• Brazil
• Central-West (1)
• North (0)
• Northeast (5)
• South (3)
• Southeast (8)
• Ecuador
• Quito (1)
• Colombia
• Bogota (1)
• Cali (2)
6 collections (Brazil)
1 proceedings collection (Brazil)

26. SciELO Books

27. SciELO Books

28. SciELO Books
Launched in 10 years ago.
This year we had the 10 year anniversary celebration event, which happened
online, over the course of two days in the end of March.
There was simultaneous translation to English and Brazilian Sign Language.

30. The New SciELO Criteria

31. The New SciELO Criteria

32. The new SciELO Criteria (September, 2022)
Updates the principles of the SciELO Program to add:
1. Concept of scientific knowledge as a national and global public good;
2. [Working as a network] at all levels as a means of maximizing scalability in terms of
cost-effectiveness in adopting the state of the art in scientific publishing, cooperation
and management of asymmetries between Collections, subject areas and journals;
3. Quality control, scientific and ethical rigor, compliance with standards and good
editorial practices throughout the flow of scholarly communication.
4. Promotion of internal program innovations and alignment with mainstream scholarly
communication innovations;
5. Promotion of the FAIR Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) in
all Collections; and
6. Promotion of the DEIA Principles (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility)
throughout the flow of scholarly communication.

33. Highlights
1. Scientific character;
2. Relevance, operational and financial sustainability, editorial
qualifications;
3. Promotion of DEIA; and
4. Contribution of the journal to the performance of the thematic area
in the collection.

34. Open Science and DEIA

35. Open science practices (since 2018)
Public commitment to become an open science program in 2018.
Launched preprints server and data repository in 2020.
Expectations for journals:
• Adoption of preprints;
• Data deposit;
• Open/informed peer review;
• Adoption of CC-BY licenses;
• Copyright belongs to the authors, not journal;
• Adoption of continuous publication.

36. DEIA Principles Lines of Action
SciELO is a C4DISC member and has adopted the Statement of
Principles.
Creation of a committee comprised of SciELO Brazil editors to direct
SciELO Brazil’s Director Board and Advisory Committee in the
implementation of DEIA principles in the SciELO journals and articles.
Accessibility working group, implemented in 2020, that is currently
working on progressively improving the accessibility on the SciELO sites
followed by raising awareness and establishing guidelines for journals
to improve accessibility in articles.

37. Challenges for adoption
Due to the large collection and diversity of our journals, changes have
to be gradual and slow, in order to accommodate for all their different
needs, so they are usually rolled out on a area by area basis.
In regards to discoverability, multilingualism is still an issue in some
cases when we are trying to have articles indexed in other databases.

38. Science Communication & Marketing

39. Science communication and marketing
SciELO in Perspective | Press Releases (2016) and Humanities (2013)
• Material is mainly in Portuguese.
• The vast majority of press releases is from the Brazil Collection.
• We also have the Special Weeks project with the objective to
increase visibility for the journal.

42. Science communication and marketing
Bori Agency
• SciELO has been a partner since the launch in 2020
• Works mostly like Eureka!Alert but completely free of charge for
both journals/researchers and journalists.
• Approximately 40% of the SciELO journals are Bori partners.

44. Science communication and marketing
We recently ran a survey with our journals to map out their usage of
social media and other science communication/marketing practices.
• It showed us that most of our journals had some sort of
communication/marketing practice (75%), though 45% don’t have a
formal communication plan or policy.
• The most popular channels are:
• Facebook;
• Instagram;
• Newsletters;
• Twitter;
• Posts on blog or journal site and press releases for SciELO in
Perspective.

45. Science communication and marketing
There is currently a Special Advisory Committee with the objective to
support an guide SciELO in the development of materials for the
journals to improve their science communication and marketing
practices.
What’s an appropriate middle ground in which we don’t alienate
national audiences but also manage to reach a broader, more
international audience?

46. Final thoughts

47. Final Thoughts
Science is a public good.
The way to make science fairer, more broadly accessible and more
ethical is by opening it.
DEIA principles are a dimension of open science.

48. SciELO 25 Years Conference
Open Science with IDEIA (Impact, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility)
25-29 SEPTEMBER, 2023
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL

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