The Brazilian Journal of Geology is part of the SciELO

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EDITORIALIn this short editorial it is with great pleasure I announce that on September 1 st I received the long expected information that, by decision of the Advisory Committee of SciELO Brazil, in their meeting held on August 29 th , 2014, the Brazilian Journal of Geology (BJG) was considered fit to join the Brazilian SciELO Collection. With the help of our competent and diversified editorial board, the editorial actions conducted with professionalism, and with the continuous flow of good quality scientific articles produced by our national community, we were able to fulfill one of our most important goals.SciELO -Science Electronic Library On-Line -is a virtual library of Brazilian scientific journals in electronic format. Its mission is to organize and to publish complete texts of Internet journals, as well as to produce and to publish indicators of their use and impact. With the use of Internet, SciELo has developed a methodology for rapid electronic publishing, with open access and universal coverage. This methodology includes the preparation and assessment of electronic scientific publications, which has technically enabled the transition process between traditional printed publishing to the electronic format.The first phase of SciELO was developed in 1997-1998, as a result of the partnership between FAPESP, the Centro Latino-Americano e do Caribe de Informação em Ciências da Saúde (Bireme) and editors of scientific journals, whose main goal was to increase the visibility of national scientific production. The Revista Brasileira de Geociências (RBG) was part of the reduced initial number of participant Brazilian journals, but, unfortunately, it had to be prematurely excluded from the program by lack of punctuality. Since the mid-2011, the RBG had recovered its punctuality and, at that time, the board of Brazilian Geological Society (SBG) decided it would be important to promote an editorial restructuring of the journal in order to obtain greater visibility worldwide, seeking for its indexing in the main bases of international journals, such as SciELO and, later on, the ISI. The Editorial Board created by SBG in the beginning of 2012 decided the pursuit for its reinstatement in SciELO collection as one of the main goals to be achieved by the journal.The evaluation process by the Advisory Committee of SciELO, based on the international criteria adopted by the more important databases, is strict and complete. The journals are assessed obviously for their scientific quality, but also for other criteria, such as: ■ Publishing, predominantly, original contributions; ■ Practicing and reviewing the approval of the contributions by peers; ■ Having an editorial committee, whose composition is public; ■ Keeping regular periodicity and punctuality on the publication; ■ Time of existence of the journal; ■ Presenting abstracts, titles and keywords in English, whenever this is not the language of the article; ■ Specifying the standard norm adopted by the journal and effectively embracing it.The criteria above are verifi...