Aslib Proceedings: Volume 64 Issue 1

The need and viability of a mediation index in Latin American scientific production and publication: The case of the Redalyc System of Scientific Information

Eduardo Aguado‐López, Gustavo Adolfo Garduño‐Oropeza, Rosario Rogel‐Salazar, María Fernanda Zúñiga‐Roca

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the online information system Redalyc as an intermediary tool that provides Latin American scientific articles with international…

Latin American scholarly journal databases: a look back to the way forward

José Octavio Alonso‐Gamboa, Jane M. Russell

Scholarly journals from Latin America have aspired to reach an adequate level of visibility and impact not only locally, but also in the international arena. Editors have not been…

Organizing open archives via lightweight ontologies to facilitate the use of heterogeneous collections

J. Alfredo Sánchez, María Auxilio Medina, Oleg Starostenko, Antonio Benitez, Eduardo López Domínguez

This paper seeks to focus on the problems of integrating information from open, distributed scholarly collections, and on the opportunities these collections represent for…

Web visibility or wasted opportunity? Case studies from Mexican research institutes

Jane M. Russell, Shirley Ainsworth, Janet Díaz‐Aguilar

This paper aims to determine to what extent the scientific production and research activities of a group of National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) research institutes in…

Long‐term digital information preservation: challenges in Latin America

Juan Voutssas

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the current situation of digital preservation and describe the additional main challenges and issues faced in Latin American countries…

Finding support for disruption: developing a digital humanities project in Mexico

Ernesto Priani Saisó

This paper seeks to provide a description and reflection on some of the structural problems and challenges faced when developing a digital humanities (DH) project in a Mexican…

Developing and implementing digital publications and collections in academic environments: the perspective from a developing country

Isabel Galina