Point of View: How the Global South is reshaping scholarly communication
- National Institute of Agricultural Technology, Argentina
- Department of Molecular Biology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
- Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
- UMass Chan Medical School, United States
- Africa Bioethics Network, Kenya
- University of Zaragoza, Spain
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Sumbawa University of Technology, Indonesia
- Banaras Hindu University, India
- University of the Virgin Islands, United States
- Rinda Ubuzima, Rwanda
- Review and Curate Network, Rwanda
- International Science Council, France
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Table 1
Summary of the scholarly communication platforms and repositories mentioned in this article.
For each platform/repository the table lists the following information: URL; year of launch; number of journals, articles and preprints; disciplinary coverage; funding sources; and region. Data were compiled from websites and/or publicly available reports during August 2025.
| Name | URL | Launch | Number of journals, articles and preprints | Disciplines | Funding source | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SciELO SciELO Preprints | https://scielo.org/, https://preprints.scielo.org/ | 1997/98 2020 | 1,654 journals;~693k OA articles.~4k preprints. | Multi-disciplinary | Funded by public research funding agencies in Brazil | Latin America |
| Redalyc | https://www.redalyc.org/ | 2002 | 1,727 journals; over 782k full-text OA articles. | Social & Natural Sciences | Academic-led, nonprofit; hosted at UNAM, Mexico; supported via university grants. | Latin America |
| CLACSO | https://www.clacso.org/ | 1998 | 1,060 journals;~479k articles | Multi-disciplinary | Publicly funded mostly by UNESCO. | Latin America |
| AfricArXiv | http://info.africarxiv.org/ | 2018 | 480 preprints; 543 publications in ScienceOpen collection. | Multi-disciplinary | Community-led, supported by Center for Open Science. | Africa |
| ChinaXiv | https://chinaxiv.org/ | 2016 | ~43k preprint articles. | Multi-disciplinary | Publicly funded Chinese-language preprint platform | Asia |
| NCPSSD | http://www.ncpssd.cn/ | 2016 | 2,467 journals and more than 26 million articles. | Philosophy & Social Sciences | Publicly funded Chinese national repository | Asia |
| PubScholar | https://pubscholar.cn/ | 2023 | ~95 million journal articles and ~3.6 million indexed preprints. | Multi-disciplinary | Publicly funded repository of Chinese Academy of Sciences outputs | Asia |
| OpenSign | https://opensign.lib.tsinghua.edu.cn/ | 2024 | 37,810 journals and ~10 million OA indexed articles. | Multi-disciplinary | Publicly funded aggregated OA search platform by Tsinghua University | Asia |
| Shodhganga | https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ | 2009 | ~620k theses from ~840 universities. | Theses & Dissertations (India) | Publicly funded national open-access thesis repository | Asia |
| GARUDA | https://garuda.kemdikbud.go.id/ | 2010 | More than 1 million articles, and journals covering almost 40 fields of science. | Multi-disciplinary (Indonesia) | Government-backed platform | Asia |
| ThaiLIS | https://tdc.thailis.or.th/tdc/ | 2004 | ~150k theses and ~17k articles. | Multi-disciplinary (Thailand) | Publicly funded National library initiative | Asia |
| African Journals OnLine (AJOL) | http://www.ajol.info/ | 1998 | ~263k journal articles from 893 OA journals. | Multi-disciplinary | Non-Profit Organisation funded by donors. | Africa |
| African Open Science Platform | https://aosp.org.za/ | 2017 | Data not available. | Multi-disciplinary | Publicly funded | Africa |
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Point of View: How the Global South is reshaping scholarly communication
eLife 14:e108426.
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