SCIELO BRAZIL, A MEMBER OF ANSP, ONCE AGAIN ATTAINS LEADERSHIP IN THE "WEB RANKING OF WORLD REPOSITORIES"
SciELO BRAZIL, a participant in the ANSP Ecosystem, has once again secured first place in the international ranking of repositories
SciELO Brazil (Scientific Electronic Library Online - Brazil) has retained its leadership in the category "Top Portals" in the "Web Ranking of World Repositories" the goal of which is to promote and support initiatives to disseminate scientific publications with open access to the academic community. The site provides a list of repositories geared to research and is organized according to web indicators, which include visibility of the link, number of pages listed by Google, number of rich files (files in .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .pdf, .ps, .eps), and standardized articles available online, using the Google Scholar as database.
SciELO Brazil, a member of the ANSP Ecosystem (an Academic Network at São Paulo), is an electronic library of Brazilian scientific journals with over 300 titles in its collection. It is a project of FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation), in partnership with BIREME (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences) and with support from CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development).
Anna Paula A. Costa, from NARA-USP (Center for Applications in Advanced Networks -Medical School, University of São Paulo), explains that ANSP provides a professional and high availability infrastructure required for the SciELO servers she hosts.
Prof. Luis Fernandez Lopez, ANSP’s Principal Investigator, says that "ANSP feels very proud to be the provider of the data center and internet for a project of this level of excellence" and congratulates the SciELO team for having won first place for the fourth consecutive year in such a prestigious ranking.
