Sustainability of Latin American initiatives that publish open access journals using the XML-JATS standard: the case SciELO
Objectives: It is performed a sustainability analysis of the Latin American initiative scielo.org based on two main aspects, the economic and the need for its existence. Method: To achieve that, the required man-hours to publish a scientific paper were measured, using its new publication methodology...
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| author | Eliana Guzmán-Useche Fernando Rodríguez-Contreras |
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| description | Objectives: It is performed a sustainability analysis of the Latin American initiative scielo.org based on two main aspects, the economic and the need for its existence. Method: To achieve that, the required man-hours to publish a scientific paper were measured, using its new publication methodology called XML SPS. 40 articles published in scientific journals of different areas of knowledge are processed; journals from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela, using that methodology. Results showed that the preparation of the document takes on average 35% of the total time (σ = 9.72%), while the tagging process takes on average 50% of the time (σ = 8.50%), finally the sections corresponding to references, acknowledgments and appendices (back) takes the majority of the time. Conclusions: This analysis indicates that the SciELO publishing model is sustainable from the point of view of the need for its existence, but in the economic terms seems not to be fully sustainable for all countries in the region, because it is a technically complex process that not all publishers are able to perform, making outsourcing of that procedure to be necessary, which requires a greater budget for the journal that can jeopardize the sustainability and the control of this publishing model. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-88dfdbc11abd4558b9642c6e994950e12022-12-22T01:37:32ZspaUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghBiblios1562-47302016-11-01064153210.5195/biblios.2016.290179Sustainability of Latin American initiatives that publish open access journals using the XML-JATS standard: the case SciELOEliana Guzmán-Useche0Fernando Rodríguez-Contreras1Universidad de Los Andes – ULAUniversidad de Los Andes – ULAObjectives: It is performed a sustainability analysis of the Latin American initiative scielo.org based on two main aspects, the economic and the need for its existence. Method: To achieve that, the required man-hours to publish a scientific paper were measured, using its new publication methodology called XML SPS. 40 articles published in scientific journals of different areas of knowledge are processed; journals from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela, using that methodology. Results showed that the preparation of the document takes on average 35% of the total time (σ = 9.72%), while the tagging process takes on average 50% of the time (σ = 8.50%), finally the sections corresponding to references, acknowledgments and appendices (back) takes the majority of the time. Conclusions: This analysis indicates that the SciELO publishing model is sustainable from the point of view of the need for its existence, but in the economic terms seems not to be fully sustainable for all countries in the region, because it is a technically complex process that not all publishers are able to perform, making outsourcing of that procedure to be necessary, which requires a greater budget for the journal that can jeopardize the sustainability and the control of this publishing model.http://biblios.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/biblios/article/view/290SustentabilidadAcceso abiertoLatinoaméricaRevista científicaRedalycSciELOJATS |
| spellingShingle | Eliana Guzmán-Useche Fernando Rodríguez-Contreras Sustainability of Latin American initiatives that publish open access journals using the XML-JATS standard: the case SciELO Biblios Sustentabilidad Acceso abierto Latinoamérica Revista científica Redalyc SciELO JATS |
| title | Sustainability of Latin American initiatives that publish open access journals using the XML-JATS standard: the case SciELO |
| title_full | Sustainability of Latin American initiatives that publish open access journals using the XML-JATS standard: the case SciELO |
| title_fullStr | Sustainability of Latin American initiatives that publish open access journals using the XML-JATS standard: the case SciELO |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainability of Latin American initiatives that publish open access journals using the XML-JATS standard: the case SciELO |
| title_short | Sustainability of Latin American initiatives that publish open access journals using the XML-JATS standard: the case SciELO |
| title_sort | sustainability of latin american initiatives that publish open access journals using the xml jats standard the case scielo |
| topic | Sustentabilidad Acceso abierto Latinoamérica Revista científica Redalyc SciELO JATS |
| url | http://biblios.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/biblios/article/view/290 |
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