SciELO open access
Brazil pioneered and hosts SciELO, a major open-access platform for Latin American and Iberian scholarly journals.
Jurisdiction · BR
CASRAI standards in Brazil
Brazil is the largest research producer in Latin America, with a federal funding system led by CNPq (the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and CAPES (the coordinating agency for graduate education), complemented by powerful state foundations such as FAPESP in São Paulo. Brazil is a global leader in open access through SciELO, the pioneering open-access journal platform, and maintains the Lattes Platform — a national researcher-CV system that is increasingly integrated with ORCID.
Key funders
Who funds research here
- CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development)
- CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel)
- FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation)
- FINEP
- State research foundations (FAPs)
Assessment frameworks
How research is evaluated
- CAPES graduate-programme evaluation
- CNPq researcher productivity grades
- Lattes-based assessment
Mandates
Active rules + when they took effect
Lattes Platform
The national CNPq researcher-CV system used across funding applications, increasingly interoperable with ORCID.
Lattes–ORCID integration
Growing linkage between the Lattes curriculum system and ORCID iDs for researcher identity.
Open-access direction
Strong national tradition of Diamond / no-fee open access through SciELO and institutional repositories.
Related CASRAI guidance
