The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced a collaboration with Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) to integrate the SciELO Citation Index into the Web of Knowledge, a powerful search and discovery platform. The announcement was made at SciELO 15, a conference of industry leaders in scholarly research communications in San Paulo, Brazil, where the fifteenth anniversary of the SciELO Network is being celebrated, and research policies and Open Access content are being discussed.
This initiative will bring greater visibility and improved access to research from emerging economies, particularly Latin America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and developed Ibero-America areas including Spain and Portugal. The SciELO Citation Index will now seamlessly connect to the Web of Science, the industry's most trusted citation database covering the high-quality scholar literature and other leading indices within the Web of Knowledge, including the Data Citation Index, MEDLINE®, and Biosis Citation Index. This will enable researchers to review and analyse relevant regional content along top-tier international literature within the Web of Knowledge.
The SciELO Citation Index will include about 650 titles and more than 4 million cited references from Open Access journals from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and Venezuela. The addition of SciELO to Web of Knowledge will follow a similar model to that of the Chinese Science Citation Database, which has been hosted within the Web of Knowledge since 2008, and the planned 2014 launch of a journal database featuring Korean scholarly literature. These databases are part of Thomson Reuters continuing efforts to further integrate high-quality Open Access content into the Web of Knowledge, spotlight regionally relevant scholarly literature and identify influential authors and research within rapidly developing research centers.
