When it was set up in May last year, the Electronic Library Program (ProBE in the Portuguese acronym) made available through the Internet to researchers at the three state universities in S\u00e3o Paulo and the two federal universities located in the state, the S\u00e3o Carlos Federal University and the S\u00e3o Paulo Federal University and the Bireme (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Science Information), a collection of 606 scientific magazines published by the Dutch company Elsevier Science Inc. on the Internet. Just over a year later, the electronic service now has 841 titles available after including publications by the American publishing house Academic Press and High Wire Press and making them available to teachers and graduate and postgraduate students. But the most important thing is that part of this scientific collection, that of Elseviers is already beginning to be made available to the professionals of the 15 state and federal research institutes in the State, benefiting 7,578 researchers. Many of them, for lack of funds in their own institutions, had no access to any international scientific publication.<\/p>\n
This was the case, for example, of the 159 researchers of the Biological Institute of the Department of Agriculture and Supplies. \u201cWe had no print subscriptions and no money for them. To undertake consultations, most researchers had to go to the University of S\u00e3o Paulo\u201d, says Silvia Helena Marques, the institute\u2019s librarian. The same thing happened with the 564 professionals of the Dante Pazzanese Cardiology Institute, of the State Health Department, which also had no subscription to any of Elsevier\u2019s publications. \u201cWhen necessary, we turned to Bireme\u201d, says Anna Simene Leite Gon\u00e7alves, who is in charge of the library. Nowadays, through the ProBE, the institute\u2019s clinical staff and researchers have access to specialized magazines in cardiology, nursing and hospital management.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simultaneous consultation Benefiting researchers, by providing fast access to the international scientific information required for their professional qualifications and their keeping updated, the ProBE also benefits the institutions, which save on the number of print subscriptions. \u201cThe cost of the electronic subscription is only 15% of that of print subscriptions\u201d, compares Rosaly Favero Krzyzanowski, the program\u2019s operational coordinator. In her opinion, electronic access has the advantage of allowing simultaneous consultation, optimizing the cost benefit ratio per subscription to scientific journals.<\/p>\n The institutions in the consortium, for example, also have an average of two subscriptions to Elsevier\u2019s 606 titles, at a cost of R$ 2.6 million. The electronic subscription to the same titles, without the need for duplication, goes for R$ 398,000. The amount is proportional to the number of users and the control of the number of consultations is done through the IP (Internet Protocol Number) of each user in the member institutions of the consortium. And the contract with the publishers allows articles to be printed and copied for research purposes.<\/p>\n The universities and research institutes will maintain print subscriptions to the magazines for three years, during which time the program will assess user satisfaction.<\/p>\n Next steps The program also provides for the development of tools allowing links with articles cited on the Web of Science, of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) \u2013 a database with summaries, references, and quotations of articles published in around 8,400 international scientific journals that has been in existence since 1974. \u201cWe are also studying whether to increase the number of publishers, in order to include magazines relating to the field of the Human Sciences, which have not been included so far\u201d, adds Rosaly.<\/p>\n At present, around 11,590 teachers and researchers and 114,483 graduate and postgraduate students can look up\u00a0 articles of interest through the Intranet, based on computers installed in their own work areas, in the 86 libraries of the member institutions of the consortium or, in some cases, the researcher\u2019s home.<\/p>\n New partners<\/strong> Research institutes subscribing to the ProBE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Aeronautics Technological Center (CTA\/ITA)
\n<\/strong>The ProBE is the result of a Consortium of Institutional Cooperation that gathers FAPESP, the University of (USP), The S\u00e3o Paulo State University J\u00falio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp), the Campinas State University (Unicamp), the S\u00e3o Carlos Federal University (UFSCar), the S\u00e3o Paulo Federal University (Unifesp) and the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Science Information. The research institutes created the consortium through agreements signed in June 2000. The Foundation is responsible for the hardware and software infrastructure needed for setting up and operating the electronic library as well as for the magazine database.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Further rationalizing and speeding up of access to scientific information are among ProBE\u2019s objectives. Thus, since June, the CD-ROMs with all the editorial content of the three publishers were installed on the ANSP \u2013Academic Network at S\u00e3o Paulo, at FAPESP\u2019s offices. Access to any of the publications, therefore, does away with the need for an international call. And, what is more, as from September, all 841 publications of the three publishers will be organized in a portal, allowing consultation by subject.<\/p>\n
\nThe ProBE is run by a committee that coordinates the introduction, operation, maintenance, training, and assessment of the use the Electronic Library and decides on subscriptions to magazines and on the entry of new partners in the consortium. Public or private institutions undertaking teaching and research are qualified to take part in the program provided that they have potential users with research projects underway; that they undertake lines of research with scientific production; that they have people trained to run access to the ProBE; that they offer titles that add to the program; and that they contribute a minimum of 3% of the value of the Electronic Library collection. \u201cThere are already several universities interested\u201d, says Rosaly Krzyzanowski.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Nuclear and Energy Research Institute – IPEN
\n\u2022 National Space Research Institute (Inpe)
\n\u2022 Hospital das Cl\u00ednicas Heart Institute (Incor)
\n\u2022 Synchrotron Light Laboratory
\n\u2022 Technological Research Institute of the State of S\u00e3o Paulo (IPT)
\n\u2022 Food Technology Institute (Ital)
\n\u2022 Dante Pazzanese Cardiology Institute
\n\u2022 S\u00e3o Paulo Forestry Institute
\n\u2022 Biological Institute
\n\u2022 Geological Institute (SMA\/SP)
\n\u2022 Zootechny Institute
\n\u2022 Em\u00edlio Ribas Infectious Disease Institute
\n\u2022 Campinas Agronomic Institute
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