The Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) recently launched a portal that boasts nearly a million scientific articles journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. The full texts of these articles will reportedly be available online for free.
The portal, called the Latindex Portal of Portals (PPL), will comprise 18 scientific, technical and cultural journal websites. The sites include Dialnet, Redalyc and the peer-reviewed SciELO, as well as repositories of scientific journals from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Spain, Mexico, Peru and Colombia, and the Catalan open access web library RACO.
PPL was developed by UNAM's directorate of computing, information and communication technologies, with financial support from Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology and technical support from Canada's Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The new project is part of Latindex, an Iberoamerican clearinghouse of scholarly magazines set up in 1997.
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