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SciELO (concept)

Scientific Electronic Library Online, an open-access publishing model and bibliographic database founded in Brazil in 1997, now a network of country collections across Latin America, the Caribbean, South Africa and beyond.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A Brazilian medical journal joins SciELO Brasil and publishes JATS-XML articles under CC BY.
Is an instance
A meta-research study uses SciELO's open citation graph for regional analysis.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
Excluding SciELO-indexed journals from a hiring committee's recognised venues list.
Not an instance
Treating SciELO as a 'developing-country' supplement rather than a primary scholarly infrastructure.

Editorial commentary

SciELO was created by FAPESP (Sao Paulo) and BIREME and now spans roughly 16 national collections. Member collections evaluate journals against shared quality criteria and host them under a common technology and indexing platform. SciELO has been a pioneer in OA, structured JATS XML publishing, open peer review pilots, preprint integration and bibliometric services for Global-South scholarship. It is widely cited as a model for sustainable, community-led, multilingual scholarly publishing infrastructure.

References

scielo.org. Packer AL 'SciELO: An electronic publishing model for developing countries' Information Services & Use 1998.

Also known as

SciELO Network · SciELO Brazil

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="SciELO (concept)"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/scielo-concept" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "name": "SciELO (concept)",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/scielo-concept",
  "description": "Scientific Electronic Library Online, an open-access publishing model and bibliographic database founded in Brazil in 1997, now a network of country collections across Latin America, the Caribbean, South Africa and beyond.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/knowledge-equity-diversity-global-south-inclusion/",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/scielo-concept",
  "sameAs": [
    "SciELO Network",
    "SciELO Brazil"
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

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