Para além das fronteiras: movimento dos editores

Produção e consumo de ciência em um contexto global

“…Next, some of the most prestigious journals, for instance, Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (www.abennacional.org.br) and Revista LatinoAmericana de Enfermagem (www.eerp.usp.br/rlaenf), began to regularly publish full papers in English or Spanish. To oppose -and break down -the necessity of being Englishspeaking to access scientific knowledge (a barrier to evidencebased practice for millions of nurses worldwide), a new journal, which publishes exclusively in Spanish, has recently been created (Revista Panamericana de Enfermería -www.feppen.org) in Brazil, the current host country for the Nursing Profes-sionals'Pan-American Federation (FEPPEN) (5) . The journal's goal is to disseminate knowledge produced by Latin American nurses, in order to strengthen and promote a collective body of knowledge for countries in this region.…”

“…At the international level, the Ibero-American Council of Editors of Nursing Journals was created in November 2003. Editors will meet bi-annually to promote strategies to position Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American nurses as knowledge producers for their own region (5) . Many Brazilian researchers experience being excluded from participating in the international/English-speaking scientific world and being limited to the role of consumer of English-speaking journals.…”