BERLIN, BOSTON and BUDAPEST,
Hungary, June 1, 2016
/PRNewswire/ --
The research network ScienceOpen is partnering with the
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), the leading Open
Access publisher in Latin America,
to fully integrate its content for a more global perspective on the
scientific literature.
All SciELO content is universally accessible for free in an open
access, full-text format. With the inclusion of SciELO, ScienceOpen
now contains more than 2.2 million Open Access articles.
ScienceOpen will also have more than 15 million article records
upon full integration.
CEO of ScienceOpen Stephanie Dawson says, "This makes
ScienceOpen one of the first platforms to recognize the importance
of integrating research from across Latin
America. By doing so, together we will help to create the
strongest possible foundations for the future of research around
the world."
Along with all other on the ScienceOpen platform, the new
content from SciELO will show usage data provided by Altmetric to
show how articles have been shared in online sources including
mainstream news outlets, blogs, and a variety of social
networks.
SciELO content will be featured in new research collections for
each country involved in the SciELO partnership, as well as
specialized collections for public health and social sciences. All
articles will be available for public post-publication peer review,
integration into new or existing collections, and commenting.
About ScienceOpen: ScienceOpen, the research + open
access publishing network, was founded in 2013 in Berlin and Boston by Alexander Grossmann and Tibor
Tscheke.
About SciELO: SciELO is a bibliographic database, digital
library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access
journals in Latin America,
Spain, Portugal and South
Africa.
Contact:
Jon Tennant, Communications
Director, @Science_Open
E: Jon.Tennant@scienceopen.com
Tel. +49-(0)30-6098490277
Mobile: +4917680439667
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