Redalyc

Redalyc
Producer Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (Mexico)
History 2002 to present
Access
Cost Free
Coverage
Disciplines Science
Record depth abstract, full-text, and citation
Format coverage Journal articles
Geospatial coverage Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal
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The Redalyc project (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe, España y Portugal) is a bibliographic database and a digital library of open access journals. The project started in October 2002 with the general aim of building a scientific information system made up by the leading journals of all the knowledge areas edited in and about Latin America.

Nowadays (2013), Redalyc is an information system that also evaluates the scientific and editorial quality of knowledge in Ibero-America. A research group generates bibliometric indicators about the impact of the journals, authors and countries included in the journal electronic library. Redalyc has been consolidated as an important repository of knowledge with 550 journals online and more than 116 000 full-text articles.

Since its creation Redalyc set a goal: to give visibility to the scientific production generated in Ibero-America, that is underestimated in the world-wide scene due to different factors like low investment in science and technology, the low participation of Latin American scientists in the main current of science, measured by the percentage of articles signed by Latin American authors in main databases and the low impact of that production[1]

The main communication vehicle of academic and scientific means is the publication in scientific journals. In this sense, the Latin American participation of authors or institutions in principal journals or the impact of journals produced in the region allows to know the effect of Latin American science in the world. According to Ricyt (2002), the participation of the Latin American scientists in “the main current of science”, measured by the percentage of articles signed by authors of Latin America in the main databases that register scientific publications was practically null, less than 3% in the important repositories, although there was a growing, for example, 2,7% in the Science Citation Index (SCI).[1]

Redalyc is an effort working under Open Access supported by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México with the help of hundreds superior education institutions and information systems. Using the slogan, La ciencia que no se ve no existe (Science that is not seen does not exist) Redalyc has taken a giant step forward in providing access to academic research produced in Latin America. It is anticipated that the visibility of the full text of these journals will increase the citation rates and global research impact of Latin American scholarship.[2]

Redalyc provides the following services:

Scientific Journal Electronic Library

Organized in two main areas (Social and Natural Sciences) and many specialised sub-sections, Redalyc gathers journals published in 15 countries, with over 550 journals and 16,000 articles available in PDF format, along with abstracts in Spanish and English languages, reference information and other metadata. Similarly to parallel projects such as Latindex, Redalyc fully embraces open access and its material is released under a Creative Commons license and is free to download. Along with a keyword search on each page, users can browse the catalogue by title, author, country or subject.[3]

Countries

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela

Subjects

Social Sciences and Humanities

Agrarian Studies, Anthropology, Art, Communication, Culture, Demography, Economy, Education, Environmental Studies, Geography, Health, History, Information Sciences, Language and Literature, Law, Multidisciplinaries, Philosophy and Science, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology and Territorial Studies

Natural and Exact Sciences

Agrarian Science, Architecture, Astronomy, Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geology, Geophysics, Information Technology, Mathematics, Medicine, Multidisciplinaries, Oceanography, Physics and Veterinary Medicine

Bibliometric indicators

The increase in research evaluation activities and advances in our understanding of innovation have led to a call for new types of statistical data and indicators. Bibliometric techniques have been shown to be useful in development of indicators of scientific research activity to address emerging concerns such as institutional level analysis of capabilities and networks (Katz and Hicks, 1997). Bibliometric indicators have been used for policy purposes for nearly 25 years (Narin, 1976) and were developed to address central concerns of classical science policy - level of research output and its impact. In this sense they have been so useful that they are incorporated in regular statistical series such as the National Science Foundation's (NSF) science indicators and are used in high profile analyses by leading scientists and policy makers.

Usage indicators

Redalyc produces indicator to keep track of the publications consultation. The statistics obtained are:

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1
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  3. ↑ "Redalyc review on Ipsaportal.net". unina.it.

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