Plataforma digital de revistas científicas electrónicas españolas. Relación con el movimiento Open Access

Access, visibility and ease for scientific communication through the web are in contrast with the barriers and restrictions imposed by the big for profit publishers against the access to the published papers by the Scientific Community. The movement for removing access barriers to scientific literature has been called “open access movement” which promotes free access and wide dissemination of published research findings. Based on these statements there has been created a platform of Spanish scientific journals published electronically which includes a directory of free or open access Spanish journals and the tools for searching and browsing within them. The main aims of this project are the dissemination of knowledge, the increase of the quality and visibility of the publications and favouring the access to the Spanish scientific production. The portal of e-journals is hosted in a higher Institutional portal named Tecnociencia funded by the former Ministry of Science and Technology. The journals included in the directory are selected according to quality criteria based on the items defined for Latindex Catalog. The platform of Spanish e-journals supports a Service Provider based on the open source software ARC, developed by de Old Dominion University. The platform will implement a distributed architecture for metadata harvesting OAI-PMH compliant. The OAI-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) defines a mechanism for harvesting records containing metadata from repositories. A Service Provider issues OAI-PMH requests to Data Providers and uses the metadata. The metadata of published papers will be either harvested from the Data Providers or from a centralised Data Provider where the editors upload metadata when their journals have not implemented the infrastructure of a Data Provider yet. In addition to the service provider it has been created a portal which will provide the access to the journals and resources relevant to electronic publishing