Open Access Developments in Latin America with Nicholas Cop from Andrea Higginbotham on Vimeo.
On January 14, 2013 Nicholas Cop presented how the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) has gained a positive reputation across the globe – now has on average over one million articles downloaded from the their site each day and their journals currently boast almost 10 million citations.
Our guest speaker, Nicholas Cop, is the Founder and President of Nicholas Cop Consulting, LLC and consultant on the SciELO program. SciELO began in 1998 as an e-journal initiative funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation. SciELO publishes over 1000 journal titles mainly from Latin America and Caribbean but also including Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
Nicholas provided background and updates on Open Access in Latin America and the many developments SciELO is undertaking.
Related: SPARC feature article on Open Access in Latin America.
Summary of Peruvian Open Access Legislation
