A non-commercial, cooperative and sustainable Open Access approach in Latin America
García, Arianna Becerril
One key feature It is worth looking at from Latin America is that most of the publishing is scholarly-led, scholarly-owned and scholarly financed. Each institution is part of a non-explicit cooperative that finances journals with its own faculty members, and that content is made available through open access. This approach implies that everybody gets benefit from everybody else’s investment. This cooperative ecosystem involves cooperation, networking, crowdsourcing, open source software, in-house software, free software and international collaboration as key factors. It is a nonprofit, mainly public–funded scientific communication system, whose basement is composed by journals, above them –covering some other services- we find institutional portals and repositories, and on the top layer we have regional initiatives like Redalyc, LaReferencia, Scielo, Latindex or Clacso. Particularly, Redalyc is contributing to scientific journals directly and more broadly to Open Access in the region, by offering a layered insfrastructure where in each layer a journal can find different services and products that complement its own capabilities. Redalyc developed a XML markup system, -called Marcalyc- based on the Journal Article Tag Suite, which allows journal editors to get its articles in XML file format. Free access to this tool is provided for Open Access non-APC scholarly journals indexed by Redalyc. A tool, free to use, designed to prevent editors from outsourcing XML markup, it doesn’t require technical expertise, minimizes XML markup time, generates a media enriched article reader, PDF, ePUB and HTML formats, allow content reuse as well as digital preservation. Redalyc provides not only journals webpages but also pages for countries, authors, institutions and areas of knowledge with their journals collection, search engines, advanced filters, different data visualizations and a set of alternative metrics.
 Thank you very much for the opportunity to participate remotely in this PKP conference. Unfortunately, I couldn't be with you today, but I strongly believe we must find these kind of discussions where we can learn about different strategies and approaches of open access. The open access movement is a reality, but it is being shaped in different colors and different flavors. So this is the moment, this is the great opportunity to build a better future for science communication. And today I'm going to talk about a non-commercial cooperative and sustainable open access approach that we are performing in Latin America. So let's begin by saying that we implement two different models in these two different regions. One key feature it is work, it is worth looking at from Latin America, is that most of the publishing is scarily led, scarily owned and scarily financed, something that we didn't see at all in a North American or European context. Each institution is part of an informal cooperative that has not ever been made explicit, but every institution just finances journals with its own faculty members and then that content is made available through open access to other institutions, which means that everybody gets benefit from everybody else's investment. This kind of informal cooperative has really worked even before open access that it's officially. However, research evaluation systems assign different values depending on where a researcher decides to publish, North or South, and which papers selects to side. So it is highly rated to publish in or side journals of the global North, and on the contrary, it is low rated to publish in or side journals of the global South. So even though we implement two different open access environments with different valuation scales, the decisions made in North totally impact the way we design the South. This is for example, recent news from The Guardian, where it says it's time for academics to take back control of research journals. And this is the European context. Well, in Latin America, it's time that academia doesn't allow to lose control of its key product knowledge. So I would say it's time for the opportunity to make science an actual global conversation, which privileges the development of humanity. Now let's look at some key features of the open access in Latin America, where I believe it needs to be known in order to develop an inclusive open publishing ecosystem. Well, Latin America is not in transition to open access. Latin America has been always open access. Open access has been the natural way in which our scientific communication system works. Journalists have been supported by universities and research institutions. The majority of them, about 80% of the total number, including the most risky news journals, are published by public universities and mean government funded. The tradition of scholarly publishing has not been outsourced to commercial publishers nor supported by charging authors ever. Historically, we have suffered from not having access to science published in the global north and recently we're suffering the publication in journals of the north due to the IPC model. Well, this comparative ecosystem involves cooperation and working crowdsourcing of open source software, in-house software, and software international exploration. It is an uncapped reach made public funded scientific communication system whose basement is composed by journals and above them covering some other services we found institutional portals and repositories and on the top we have regional initiatives like Redalik, La Referencia and CL FoodSan. These regional initiatives including of course Latinx, Redalik, CL and Klaxo are empowering both open access with different added value services. On the other hand, we can find different stakeholders in green open access like La Referencia, the network of national networks of institutional repositories and there are also mandates, institutional national mandates that is the case of Peru, Argentina and Mexico. However, we've got of course witnesses. Open access policies are recommendations more than mandates, evaluation rewards publishing in English language in international journals, losing some relevant regional topics that are in the agenda of other countries, for example, Chaga disease, Ebola, that are really important topics that by the way could save lives. The open access indicators are not yet used for research evaluation. Research policies are unfolding, agencies are being influenced by international cooperation for publishers, particularly the APCB of this model. There's no regional open access formal coalition among stakeholders. So these are some of the witnesses we have in Latin America. Now let's take a look quickly at Redalik's model and how it's contributing scientific journals directly and more broadly to open access in the region. Redalik, we can see Redalik as a solution of non-commercial, cooperative and sustainable open access. And let's see this system as a layer infrastructure where in each layer a journal can find different services and products that complement its anthropabilities. This structure is based on peer reviewed journals along with the publisher institutions and their platforms mainly being on software like open journal systems, of course. In Redalik we perform a selection process based on quality criteria to guarantee our journal collection follows a peer review process and other requirements. Then this evaluation passes one internal ratification and one more made by the advisor board which is composed by experts of different ways. Now let's move on to the edition layer. Redalik developed an XML markup system called Markalik based on the article, the journal article tax suite which allows journal editors to get its articles in XML file format. Free access to this tool is provided for open access, non-APC and this is a very important requirement. A journal mustn't charge authors to get an account in this software and of course the journal must be indexed by Redalik in order to access to Markalik. This is a tool free to use designed to prevent editors from outsourcing XML markup to commercial companies. It doesn't require technical expertise, it minimizes XML markup time, it generates along with the XML file format enriched formats and allow content reuse and digital preservation. Well Markalik together with the XML file format generates a media-enriched article reader, a PDF, an E-Puff and HTML formats. All these are available in Redalik to access to the content and there's also the possibility for journal editors to download these file formats and take them to their websites. Redalik provides not only journal journals home pages but also home pages for countries, authors, institutions and areas of knowledge with their journals collection with search engines, with advanced filters, with different data visualizations and with metrics. This is what we call the service layer. Now talking about visibility, in fact Redalik began 13 years ago with the goal to improve the visibility of the scientific journals of the region, mainly the journals of the social sciences and humanities in that time. Now we have been working with search engines, with libraries, with directories and social media to disseminate more broadly the scientific content and to improve its discoverability. As well with repositories and aggregators through interoperability protocols like the protocol for metadata harvesting of the open access initiative or with initiatives like Orki in the case of our open web pages that allows researchers to integrate their works published in Redalik to an Orki's profile. Finally we provide an alternative set of metrics who are intended to answer different questions than impact factors. For example the institutional strengths, the most influential journals in the knowledge area who is using the knowledge in Redalik by an institution. It also shows the analysis of the structure of scholarly communication. It is they also show collaboration, internationalization and some other metrics. Today we hold a collection of more than half million full text articles from more than 1,000 journals published by 500 publishers from 22 countries with more than 1 million offers and we are registering about 80 million downloads per month. To illustrate the contribution, the economical contribution of Redalik to journals just in the edition phase, we can say that Redalik with Markalik contributes and we must say subsidizes the generation of electronic version for journals and it will look at the market prices of what Markalik does for free and considering that it currently Redalik holds 42,000 journal issues, you can see the calculated contribution when the whole collection will be processed. More than 16 million dollars could be the contribution of Redalik to Markalik. Now let's look at a couple of successful cases. The first one is the case of journals that generate its external content with no cost in Markalik. Download the PDF HTML, Intelligent, Multimedia, Article Reader and Epov Article versions and use them in their own websites. We have several examples of journals using files generated by Redalik in its own websites. Another successful case is the conversion of a journal from APC to non-APC. This is the Journal of the Entomological Society of Argentina that eliminated its APC policy to apply for a user account in Markalik. Talking about APC in Latin America, we must say that about 92% of the total journals indexed by Redalik are non-APC journals. The remaining 8% are journals published by professional associations, I mean non-public funded, or journals that recently started to charge authors. APC represents a complement for survival only. I mean these kind of chapters are non-for profit and they are low chapters. But in Latin America we are at risk of the propagation of the APC model from the north because we must say that the APC model was invented in the north. So we must make some important reflections. In a government funded scientific communication system where non-APC publication is a fact, as sustainability is driven by public resources, which are the advantages in adopting a model to charge others. Could there be a risk of discouragement of governments and public institutions to keep supporting scientific research and publications? Could there be a risk of discouragement of non-profit open access platforms like Redalik to keep strengthening publications? Could journals really become self-sufficient through APCs in a region with no funds in research projects to publish results? Well that brings us to the end of my presentation. Now I'd be glad to summarize by saying that how could Latin America and other developing regions participate in the global scientific conversation when restrictions just change from reading to publishing? The APC model brings a risk of widening the gap between Latin American research and international publication, as well as a risk of breaking the open natural of scientific communication system in Latin America. From our perspective, there's a great opportunity to learn best practices from each side of the world to achieve set the science as a common goal. This is our main goal to set science as a common goal. So thank you very much for listening.
 Thank you very much for the opportunity to participate remotely in this  PKP conference. Unfortunately, I couldn't be with you today, but I strongly believe we must  find these kind of discussions where we can learn about different strategies and approaches of  open access. The open access movement is a reality, but it is being shaped in different colors and  different flavors. So this is the moment, this is the great opportunity to build a better future  for science communication. And today I'm going to talk about a non-commercial cooperative and  sustainable open access approach that we are performing in Latin America. So let's begin by  saying that we implement two different models in these two different regions. One key feature it is  work, it is worth looking at from Latin America, is that most of the publishing is scarily led,  scarily owned and scarily financed, something that we didn't see at all in a North American or  European context. Each institution is part of an informal cooperative that has not ever been made  explicit, but every institution just finances journals with its own faculty members and then  that content is made available through open access to other institutions, which means that everybody  gets benefit from everybody else's investment. This kind of informal cooperative has really  worked even before open access that it's officially. However, research evaluation systems assign  different values depending on where a researcher decides to publish, North or South, and which papers  selects to side. So it is highly rated to publish in or side journals of the global North,  and on the contrary, it is low rated to publish in or side journals of the global South.  So even though we implement two different open access environments with different  valuation scales, the decisions made in North totally impact the way we design the South.  This is for example, recent news from The Guardian, where it says it's time for academics to take back  control of research journals. And this is the European context. Well, in Latin America,  it's time that academia doesn't allow to lose control of its key product knowledge. So I would  say it's time for the opportunity to make science an actual global conversation, which privileges  the development of humanity. Now let's look at some key features of the open access in Latin  America, where I believe it needs to be known in order to develop an inclusive open publishing  ecosystem. Well, Latin America is not in transition to open access. Latin America has been always  open access. Open access has been the natural way in which our scientific communication system works.  Journalists have been supported by universities and research institutions. The majority of them,  about 80% of the total number, including the most risky news journals, are  published by public universities and mean government funded. The tradition of scholarly  publishing has not been outsourced to commercial publishers nor supported by charging authors  ever. Historically, we have suffered from not having access to science published in the global  north and recently we're suffering the publication in journals of the north due to the IPC model.  Well, this comparative ecosystem involves cooperation and working crowdsourcing of  open source software, in-house software, and software international exploration. It is an  uncapped reach made public funded scientific communication system whose basement is composed by  journals and above them covering some other services we found institutional portals and repositories  and on the top we have regional initiatives like Redalik, La Referencia and CL FoodSan.  These regional initiatives including of course Latinx, Redalik, CL and Klaxo are empowering  both open access with different added value services. On the other hand, we can find  different stakeholders in green open access like La Referencia, the network of national  networks of institutional repositories and there are also mandates, institutional national mandates  that is the case of Peru, Argentina and Mexico. However, we've got of course witnesses.  Open access policies are recommendations more than mandates, evaluation rewards  publishing in English language in international journals, losing some relevant regional topics  that are in the agenda of other countries, for example, Chaga disease, Ebola, that are really  important topics that by the way could save lives. The open access indicators are not yet used  for research evaluation. Research policies are unfolding, agencies are being influenced by  international cooperation for publishers, particularly the APCB of this model. There's no  regional open access formal coalition among stakeholders. So these are some of the witnesses  we have in Latin America. Now let's take a look quickly at Redalik's model and how it's contributing  scientific journals directly and more broadly to open access in the region. Redalik, we can see  Redalik as a solution of non-commercial, cooperative and sustainable open access.  And let's see this system as a layer infrastructure where in each layer a journal can find different  services and products that complement its anthropabilities. This structure is based on peer  reviewed journals along with the publisher institutions and their platforms mainly  being on software like open journal systems, of course. In Redalik we perform a selection process  based on quality criteria to guarantee our journal collection follows a peer review process and other  requirements. Then this evaluation passes one internal ratification and one more made by the  advisor board which is composed by experts of different ways. Now let's move on to the edition  layer. Redalik developed an XML markup system called Markalik based on the article, the journal  article tax suite which allows journal editors to get its articles in XML file format. Free access  to this tool is provided for open access, non-APC and this is a very important requirement. A journal  mustn't charge authors to get an account in this software and of course the journal must be indexed  by Redalik in order to access to Markalik. This is a tool free to use designed to prevent  editors from outsourcing XML markup to commercial companies. It doesn't require technical expertise,  it minimizes XML markup time, it generates along with the XML file format enriched formats  and allow content reuse and digital preservation. Well Markalik together with the XML file format  generates a media-enriched article reader, a PDF, an E-Puff and HTML formats. All these are available  in Redalik to access to the content and there's also the possibility for journal editors to download  these file formats and take them to their websites. Redalik provides not only journal  journals home pages but also home pages for countries, authors, institutions and areas of  knowledge with their journals collection with search engines, with advanced filters, with  different data visualizations and with metrics. This is what we call the service layer.  Now talking about visibility, in fact Redalik began 13 years ago with the goal to improve the  visibility of the scientific journals of the region, mainly the journals of the social sciences  and humanities in that time. Now we have been working with search engines, with libraries,  with directories and social media to disseminate more broadly the scientific content and to  improve its discoverability. As well with repositories and aggregators through interoperability  protocols like the protocol for metadata harvesting of the open access initiative or with initiatives  like Orki in the case of our open web pages that allows researchers to integrate their works  published in Redalik to an Orki's profile. Finally we provide an alternative set of metrics  who are intended to answer different questions than impact factors. For example the institutional  strengths, the most influential journals in the knowledge area who is using the knowledge  in Redalik by an institution. It also shows the analysis of the structure of scholarly communication.  It is they also show collaboration, internationalization and some other metrics.  Today we hold a collection of more than half million full text articles from more than 1,000  journals published by 500 publishers from 22 countries with more than 1 million offers  and we are registering about 80 million downloads per month. To illustrate the contribution,  the economical contribution of Redalik to journals just in the edition phase, we can say that  Redalik with Markalik contributes and we must say subsidizes the generation of electronic version  for journals and it will look at the market prices of what Markalik does for free and  considering that it currently Redalik holds 42,000 journal issues, you can see the calculated  contribution when the whole collection will be processed. More than 16 million dollars  could be the contribution of Redalik to Markalik. Now let's look at a couple of successful cases.  The first one is the case of journals that generate its external content with no cost in Markalik.  Download the PDF HTML, Intelligent, Multimedia, Article Reader and Epov Article versions  and use them in their own websites. We have several examples of journals using files generated  by Redalik in its own websites. Another successful case is the conversion of a journal from APC to  non-APC. This is the Journal of the Entomological Society of Argentina that eliminated its APC  policy to apply for a user account in Markalik. Talking about APC in Latin America, we must say  that about 92% of the total journals indexed by Redalik are non-APC journals. The remaining 8%  are journals published by professional associations, I mean non-public funded,  or journals that recently started to charge authors. APC represents a complement for survival only.  I mean these kind of chapters are non-for profit and they are low chapters.  But in Latin America we are at risk of the propagation of the APC model from the north  because we must say that the APC model was invented in the north. So we must  make some important reflections. In a government funded scientific communication system where  non-APC publication is a fact, as sustainability is driven by public resources, which are the  advantages in adopting a model to charge others. Could there be a risk of discouragement of  governments and public institutions to keep supporting scientific research and publications?  Could there be a risk of discouragement of non-profit open access platforms like Redalik  to keep strengthening publications? Could journals really become self-sufficient  through APCs in a region with no funds in research projects to publish results?  Well that brings us to the end of my presentation. Now I'd be glad to summarize by saying that how  could Latin America and other developing regions participate in the global scientific conversation  when restrictions just change from reading to publishing? The APC model brings a risk of widening  the gap between Latin American research and international publication, as well as a risk  of breaking the open natural of scientific communication system in Latin America. From our  perspective, there's a great opportunity to learn best practices from each side of the world to achieve  set the science as a common goal. This is our main goal to set science as a common goal.  So thank you very much for listening.
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Thank you very much for the opportunity to participate remotely in this PKP conference. Unfortunately, I couldn't be with you today, but I strongly believe we must find these kind of discussions where we can learn about different strategies and approaches of open access. The open access movement is a reality, but it is being shaped in different colors and different flavors. So this is the moment, this is the great opportunity to build a better future for science communication. And today I'm going to talk about a non-commercial cooperative and sustainable open access approach that we are performing in Latin America. So let's begin by saying that we implement two different models in these two different regions. One key feature it is work, it is worth looking at from Latin America, is that most of the publishing is scarily led, scarily owned and scarily financed, something that we didn't see at all in a North American or European context. Each institution is part of an informal cooperative that has not ever been made explicit, but every institution just finances journals with its own faculty members and then that content is made available through open access to other institutions, which means that everybody gets benefit from everybody else's investment. This kind of informal cooperative has really worked even before open access that it's officially. However, research evaluation systems assign different values depending on where a researcher decides to publish, North or South, and which papers selects to side. So it is highly rated to publish in or side journals of the global North, and on the contrary, it is low rated to publish in or side journals of the global South. So even though we implement two different open access environments with different valuation scales, the decisions made in North totally impact the way we design the South. This is for example, recent news from The Guardian, where it says it's time for academics to take back control of research journals. And this is the European context. Well, in Latin America, it's time that academia doesn't allow to lose control of its key product knowledge. So I would say it's time for the opportunity to make science an actual global conversation, which privileges the development of humanity. Now let's look at some key features of the open access in Latin America, where I believe it needs to be known in order to develop an inclusive open publishing ecosystem. Well, Latin America is not in transition to open access. Latin America has been always open access. Open access has been the natural way in which our scientific communication system works. Journalists have been supported by universities and research institutions. The majority of them, about 80% of the total number, including the most risky news journals, are published by public universities and mean government funded. The tradition of scholarly publishing has not been outsourced to commercial publishers nor supported by charging authors ever. Historically, we have suffered from not having access to science published in the global north and recently we're suffering the publication in journals of the north due to the IPC model. Well, this comparative ecosystem involves cooperation and working crowdsourcing of open source software, in-house software, and software international exploration. It is an uncapped reach made public funded scientific communication system whose basement is composed by journals and above them covering some other services we found institutional portals and repositories and on the top we have regional initiatives like Redalik, La Referencia and CL FoodSan. These regional initiatives including of course Latinx, Redalik, CL and Klaxo are empowering both open access with different added value services. On the other hand, we can find different stakeholders in green open access like La Referencia, the network of national networks of institutional repositories and there are also mandates, institutional national mandates that is the case of Peru, Argentina and Mexico. However, we've got of course witnesses. Open access policies are recommendations more than mandates, evaluation rewards publishing in English language in international journals, losing some relevant regional topics that are in the agenda of other countries, for example, Chaga disease, Ebola, that are really important topics that by the way could save lives. The open access indicators are not yet used for research evaluation. Research policies are unfolding, agencies are being influenced by international cooperation for publishers, particularly the APCB of this model. There's no regional open access formal coalition among stakeholders. So these are some of the witnesses we have in Latin America. Now let's take a look quickly at Redalik's model and how it's contributing scientific journals directly and more broadly to open access in the region. Redalik, we can see Redalik as a solution of non-commercial, cooperative and sustainable open access. And let's see this system as a layer infrastructure where in each layer a journal can find different services and products that complement its anthropabilities. This structure is based on peer reviewed journals along with the publisher institutions and their platforms mainly being on software like open journal systems, of course. In Redalik we perform a selection process based on quality criteria to guarantee our journal collection follows a peer review process and other requirements. Then this evaluation passes one internal ratification and one more made by the advisor board which is composed by experts of different ways. Now let's move on to the edition layer. Redalik developed an XML markup system called Markalik based on the article, the journal article tax suite which allows journal editors to get its articles in XML file format. Free access to this tool is provided for open access, non-APC and this is a very important requirement. A journal mustn't charge authors to get an account in this software and of course the journal must be indexed by Redalik in order to access to Markalik. This is a tool free to use designed to prevent editors from outsourcing XML markup to commercial companies. It doesn't require technical expertise, it minimizes XML markup time, it generates along with the XML file format enriched formats and allow content reuse and digital preservation. Well Markalik together with the XML file format generates a media-enriched article reader, a PDF, an E-Puff and HTML formats. All these are available in Redalik to access to the content and there's also the possibility for journal editors to download these file formats and take them to their websites. Redalik provides not only journal journals home pages but also home pages for countries, authors, institutions and areas of knowledge with their journals collection with search engines, with advanced filters, with different data visualizations and with metrics. This is what we call the service layer. Now talking about visibility, in fact Redalik began 13 years ago with the goal to improve the visibility of the scientific journals of the region, mainly the journals of the social sciences and humanities in that time. Now we have been working with search engines, with libraries, with directories and social media to disseminate more broadly the scientific content and to improve its discoverability. As well with repositories and aggregators through interoperability protocols like the protocol for metadata harvesting of the open access initiative or with initiatives like Orki in the case of our open web pages that allows researchers to integrate their works published in Redalik to an Orki's profile. Finally we provide an alternative set of metrics who are intended to answer different questions than impact factors. For example the institutional strengths, the most influential journals in the knowledge area who is using the knowledge in Redalik by an institution. It also shows the analysis of the structure of scholarly communication. It is they also show collaboration, internationalization and some other metrics. Today we hold a collection of more than half million full text articles from more than 1,000 journals published by 500 publishers from 22 countries with more than 1 million offers and we are registering about 80 million downloads per month. To illustrate the contribution, the economical contribution of Redalik to journals just in the edition phase, we can say that Redalik with Markalik contributes and we must say subsidizes the generation of electronic version for journals and it will look at the market prices of what Markalik does for free and considering that it currently Redalik holds 42,000 journal issues, you can see the calculated contribution when the whole collection will be processed. More than 16 million dollars could be the contribution of Redalik to Markalik. Now let's look at a couple of successful cases. The first one is the case of journals that generate its external content with no cost in Markalik. Download the PDF HTML, Intelligent, Multimedia, Article Reader and Epov Article versions and use them in their own websites. We have several examples of journals using files generated by Redalik in its own websites. Another successful case is the conversion of a journal from APC to non-APC. This is the Journal of the Entomological Society of Argentina that eliminated its APC policy to apply for a user account in Markalik. Talking about APC in Latin America, we must say that about 92% of the total journals indexed by Redalik are non-APC journals. The remaining 8% are journals published by professional associations, I mean non-public funded, or journals that recently started to charge authors. APC represents a complement for survival only. I mean these kind of chapters are non-for profit and they are low chapters. But in Latin America we are at risk of the propagation of the APC model from the north because we must say that the APC model was invented in the north. So we must make some important reflections. In a government funded scientific communication system where non-APC publication is a fact, as sustainability is driven by public resources, which are the advantages in adopting a model to charge others. Could there be a risk of discouragement of governments and public institutions to keep supporting scientific research and publications? Could there be a risk of discouragement of non-profit open access platforms like Redalik to keep strengthening publications? Could journals really become self-sufficient through APCs in a region with no funds in research projects to publish results? Well that brings us to the end of my presentation. Now I'd be glad to summarize by saying that how could Latin America and other developing regions participate in the global scientific conversation when restrictions just change from reading to publishing? The APC model brings a risk of widening the gap between Latin American research and international publication, as well as a risk of breaking the open natural of scientific communication system in Latin America. From our perspective, there's a great opportunity to learn best practices from each side of the world to achieve set the science as a common goal. This is our main goal to set science as a common goal. So thank you very much for listening.
different regions. One key feature it is work, it is worth looking at from Latin America, is that most of the publishing is scarily led, scarily context. Each institution is part of an informal but every institution just finances journals with its own faculty members and then that content is made available through open access to other institutions, which means that everybody gets benefit from everybody else's investment. This comparative ecosystem involves cooperation and working crowdsourcing of open source software, in-house software, and software international funded scientific communication system whose basement is composed by journals and above them covering some other services we found institutional portals and repositories and on the top we have regional initiatives like Redalik, La it's contributing scientific journals directly and more broadly to open access in the region. infrastructure where in each layer a journal can find different services and products that markup system called Markalik based on the allows journal editors to get its articles in XML file format. Free access to this tool is provided order to access to Markalik. This is a tool free to use designed to prevent editors from It doesn't require technical expertise, it minimizes XML markup time, it generates along with the XML file format enriched formats and allow content reuse and digital preservation. generates a media-enriched article reader, a PDF, their websites. Redalik provides not only journal journals home pages but also home pages for countries, authors, institutions and areas of knowledge with their journals collection with search engines, with advanced filters, with different data visualizations and with metrics. non-APC. This is the Journal of the Entomological