Abstract
CEVAP Journal: the first Brazilian electronic scientific publication turns 20 years old
Highlights
The year 2015 marks 350 years since the appearance of the world’s first scientific publication and 20 years since the publication of the Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases (JVATiTD – www.jvat.org) [1,2,3]
In 1665, the first scientific journals appeared in France and England, called respectively the Journal des Sçavans and Philosophical Transactions
Its mission was to distribute papers automatically to cover the areas of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics. It was an electronic system of automatic distribution with definitive submission or the possibility of a correction by the author. It was discussed in the 1990s whether an electronic publication should be considered a scientific journal or not
Summary
CEVAP Journal: the first Brazilian electronic scientific publication turns 20 years old Benedito Barraviera. It was decided at the time by BioMed Central, Springer. Barraviera [10] lists the main reasons for publishing in open-access electronic journals: they support all types of images with no size limit; they support different media (audio and video); continuous publication increases the availability on the Internet; indexing in different search engines; accessibility and support to different platforms (computers, tablets, smartphones among others); greater visibility – and a bigger chance of citation and an increased impact factor (Additional file 1)
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