SciELO

SciELO
ProducerFAPESP - BIREME (Brazil)
LanguagesEnglish, Portuguese, Spanish
Access
CostFree
Coverage
DisciplinesMultidisciplinary
Record depthIndex, abstract & full-text
Format coverageAcademic journal articles
Geospatial coverageLatin America, Iberian Peninsula, South Africa
No. of records573,525[1]
Links
Websitescielo.org

SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a bibliographic database, digital library, and cooperative electronic publishing model of open access journals. SciELO was created to meet the scientific communication needs of developing countries and provides an efficient way to increase visibility and access to scientific literature.[2] Originally established in Brazil in 1997, today there are 16 countries in the SciELO network and its journal collections: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.[3]

SciELO was initially supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), along with the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (BIREME). SciELO provides a portal that integrates and provides access to all of the SciELO network sites. Users can search across all SciELO collections or limit the search by a single country collection, or browse by subject area, publisher, or journal title.

  1. ^ "SciELO". Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  2. ^ Packer, Abel (October 2000). "SciELO - a Model for Cooperative Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries". D-Lib Magazine. Vol. 6, no. 10. ISSN 1082-9873.
  3. ^ "SciELO.org - Scientific Electronic Library Online". www.scielo.org. Retrieved 2015-10-19.