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Washington, D.C. and Brasília, D.F.: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announces that the government of Brazil has partnered with AAAS to obtain sitewide access to Science Classic, the digital archive of Science from 1880 to 1996, for use by the institutions of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes Consortium), the nation's extensive information portal.
Capes offers immediate access to international, national, and foreign journals in all areas of knowledge to researchers, professors, students, and librarians of more than 311 Brazilian research centers and institutions of higher learning. In an effort to increase the amount of scientific resources available to its users, Capes added Science Classic to its Portal de Periodicos.
"By accessing Science Classic's digital back files, our users may learn more about the many questions and the revolutionary aspects of most scientific discoveries of the past 130 years," observed Elenara de Almeida, general coordinator of Capes' Portal de Periodicos. "We are always interested in discussing with AAAS initiatives that help improve access to relevant scientific information through the Portal de Periodicos. Making available AAAS's Science Classic content to users of the Portal de Periodicos will be an important advancement to Brazilian students and researchers, who will be able to understand more about the process of development of scientific knowledge in the world."
With every issue of Science from 1880 to 1996, Science Classic delivers more than a hundred years' worth of full-text news articles, commentary, reviews, perspectives, and peer-reviewed research papers. Science Classic citations are included in PubMed. AAAS recently uploaded the entire collection of Science journal covers, so that Science Classic subscribers can now view thumbnail images of the covers from every issue dating back to 1880.
To see the complete digital archive, please go to www.ScienceOnline.org/archive/#classic
About Capes and Portal de Periodicos
The Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) plays a role in the expansion and consolidation of post-graduation in Brazil. The mission and scope of Capes can be grouped into five main programs: assessment of post-graduate student programs, access and dissemination of scientific research, investment in professional skills nationally and internationally, promoting international scientific cooperation, and knowledge improvement of professors for basic education.
Created by Capes in 2000, Portal de Periodicos is a virtual library which provides over 300 educational and research institutions throughout Brazil with access to quality information, provided by publishers and scientific societies. The collection of Portal de Periodicos includes more than 22,000 full-text journal articles, 130 reference databases, nine patent databases, e-books, statistics, technical standards, and more.
To access Portal de Periodicos, please go here: www.periodicos.capes.gov.br
About AAAS
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal, Science (www.sciencemag.org), Science Signaling (www.sciencesignaling.org), and Science Translational Medicine (www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org). AAAS was founded in 1848, and serves 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, reaching 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million. The non-profit AAAS (www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, www.eurekalert.org, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.