Arianna Becerril

Redalyc-AmeliCA and DOAJ announce their intention to collaborate.

1200px-Logo-redalyc-2019Redalyc (Autonomous University of the State of Mexico), AmeliCA and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) are delighted to announce a collaboration focussed on increasing DOAJ’s coverage of Latin American non-APC Open Access journals and to broaden the 20-AmeliCA-300x102implementation of AmeliCA’s and Redalyc’s advanced technologies that make journal publishing more efficient and increase the visibility of the content.

Both organisations will work to increase the visibility of non-commercial, open access journals from Latin America and to encourage those journals to strive towards better standards and to adopt best practice. A particular focus will be journals published in Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. DOAJ has been focussed on improving their coverage in DOAJ since 2019 with its project with the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies and the recently announced collaboration with Érudit, Canada.

Lars Bjørnshauge, Founder and Managing Director of DOAJ, says: “We are very excited to be able to work with Redalyc-AmeliCA. We share the common goals of promoting non-commercial and non-English language open access publishing and helping non-APC and non-English language journals. DOAJ already has representatives on the ground in Latin America who are ready to collaborate with Redalyc-AmeliCA so this partnership really feels like a good fit.”

Arianna Becerril-García said: “We’ve always been big supporters of DOAJ and have always encouraged Redalyc journals to apply for indexing. Redalyc has been working for many years to automate the export of data to DOAJ and help journals in this matter. This collaboration is the perfect opportunity for more efficiency and coordination and will be an effective way to ease the integration of non-APC, non-English journals into DOAJ.”

For more information, contact: Dom Mitchell, DOAJ Operations Manager [dom@doaj.org]; or Arianna, Redalyc Executive Director [arianna.becerril@redalyc.org].

Redalyc-AmeliCA y DOAJ anuncian la intención de colaborar.

1200px-Logo-redalyc-2019Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México), AmeliCA y DOAJ (el Directorio de Revistas de Acceso Abierto) se complacen en anunciar la colaboración conjunta para aumentar la cobertura de las revistas de acceso abierto no-APC de América Latina en DOAJ  y 20-AmeliCA-300x102ampliar la implementación de las tecnologías avanzadas de AmeliCA y Redalyc que contribuyan a la eficiencia y sostenibilidad de la publicación de revistas  así como a la visibilidad del contenido.

Ambas organizaciones trabajarán para aumentar la visibilidad de las revistas no comerciales de acceso abierto de América Latina y para alentar a esas revistas a alcanzar los mejores estándares de calidad y adoptar las mejores prácticas.  De particular enfoque serán las revistas de Ciencias Sociales, Artes y Humanidades. DOAJ se ha centrado en mejorar su cobertura desde 2019 con su proyecto con la Federation of Finnish Learned Societies y la colaboración recientemente anunciada con Érudit, Canadá.

Lars Bjørnshauge, Fundador y Director de DOAJ, comenta: “Estamos muy entusiasmados de poder trabajar con Redalyc-AmeliCA. Compartimos los objetivos comunes de promover la publicación de acceso abierto no comercial y en idiomas distintos al inglés y ayudar a las revistas que no cobran APC. DOAJ ya tiene representantes en la región latinoamericana que están listos para colaborar con Redalyc-AmeliCA, por lo que esta asociación realmente resulta adecuada”.

Arianna Becerril-García dijo: “Siempre hemos sido grandes partidarios del trabajo de DOAJ y hemos alentado a las revistas de Redalyc a solicitar la indexación. Redalyc ha trabajado por varios años en ayudar a las revistas a exportar datos a DOAJ en forma automática. Esta colaboración es la oportunidad perfecta para una mayor eficiencia y coordinación en esta tarea y será una forma efectiva de facilitar la integración en DOAJ de las publicaciones de idiomas distintos al inglés y que no cobran por publicar”.

Para obtener más información, comuníquese con: Dom Mitchell, Gerente de Operaciones de DOAJ [dom@doaj.org]; o con Arianna, Directora Ejecutiva de Redalyc [arianna.becerril@gmail.com].

The Redalyc JATS project strides towards standardisation.

Every now and then we hear news that is music to our ears and this time its news from Redalyc who have recently announced their project to transition their journals to the JATS XML format. The decision to make the transition was taken last year and on August 29th Redalyc will be launching their new online tool (Marcalyc) for XML JATS markup. From the press release:

‘Redalyc has undertaken a transition to the adoption of XML-JATS which provides a standardized format for describing and exchanging structured data. Redalyc’s strategy is based on empowering editors by providing tools and knowledge to make XML tagging a sustainable process. Redalyc is launching a new online tool (Marcalyc) for XML JATS markup—compatible with the JATS4R recommendation—as a free service for the Open Access journals indexed by Redalyc, a tool which is not designed to be used by technical experts or programmers.

Once having XML files, Redalyc will provide enriched file formats like ePUB and intelligent readers resulting in greater visibility and accessibility for Open Access research in Latin America, lowering costs for journals and leveraging the power of new technologies.’*

Redalyc are also launching an XML JATS reader which will improve the reader experience for the user, with powerful features like responsiveness, reference linking, search inside, image gallery, section navigation and automatic conversion to ePUB, PDF and HTML, all based in JATS4R specification. They have also provided a free online certification course (https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9160206569091767555), the last of which runs today, in which they have trained editors in the adoption of JATS.

Arianna Becerril, Director of Technology and Innovation at Redalyc and DOAJ Advisory Board member, said: “We believe the adoption of JATS in Redalyc will help the Open Access science produced in Latin America achieve a greater international visibility, increasing the possibilities for that content to be discovered, read and cited. And also, this new feature will help journals to reach higher standards like the DOAJ criteria in the case of machine readability. [Today] we’re feeding article metadata for almost 100 journals into DOAJ with links to the full-text PDF. Now we’ll be providing links not only to the PDF file but also ePUB, the smart reader and HTML for the journals with XML markup.”

Well done Redalyc! This will surely play an important role in the continued growth of academic publishing from Latin America.

*much more information about this excellent project is available in Spanish at https://xmljatsredalyc.org/