Há futuro para as revistas das sociedades científicas?

National publications and the BJPS: the future in our hands!

“…They pointed out the question of licensing the national scientific periodicals to international conglomerates with the purpose of incresasing their international insertion, emphasizing the risks to the free access, which compromises the science democratization. Following those scientists and editors, we must highlight the importance of SciELO data base, a successful initiative, internationally recognized (Gerves, 2009), and agree with the chemists who defend that "the extension and international extension of ScieLO clearly show its succeess, which goes against the economic power of some big international companies because of the high fees they request for a paper" (Torresi et al, 2010).…”

“…We insist on the question about the credibility the scientific community must give to BJPS, expressively widening its visibility. This fact, in addition to the efforts editors and colaborators have made, means to overcome the inferiority complex that we have been facing in national scientific journals, as also pointed out by Torresi et al (2010) and Salinas (2010).…”