Millennium-Journal of Education Technologies and Health integrates the ScieLo PT Collection - Scientific Electronic Library Online platform, since its number 11 (2020). In this way, one of the main objectives of the editorial team of this newspaper, which we congratulate ourselves on, was concluded.
Scielo is a digital catalog of scientific journals available on the internet in an open format. It is a project that integrates countries in South America, especially Brazil where it was born in 1997, but also Portugal and Spain, in a total of 26 countries. “SciELO is the result of a research project by FAPESP - Foundation for Research Support of the State of São Paulo, in partnership with BIREME - Latin American and Caribbean Center for Health Sciences Information. The Project has the support of CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. The Project aims to develop a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific production in electronic format. With the advancement of project activities, new journal titles are being incorporated into the library's collection" (Scientific Electronic Online Library, 2021).
Portugal joined Scielo in 2002, its management until 2018 under the responsibility of the Directorate-General for Education and Science Statistics (DGEEC). In June of this year, the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology coordinated this process (FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, 2021). On this occasion, an Advisory Committee was formed, composed of researchers from different Higher Education Institutions, to evaluate which newspapers should be part of the Scielo Portugal collection (Critérios, Política e Procedimentos Para a Admissão e a Permanência de Revistas Científicas Na Coleção SciELO Portugal, 2021).
Thus, admission criteria were defined, as well as the policy and procedures for the acceptance and permanence of scientific journals in the SciELO Portugal Collection (Critérios, Política e Procedimentos Para a Admissão e a Permanência de Revistas Científicas Na Coleção SciELO Portugal, 2021). These standards are numerous, however, it is important to highlight the following: - research manuscripts, reviews or relevant essays in the thematic areas are accepted, as well as editorials, studies or case reports and critical reviews (the latter are not considered original articles for assessment). Publications must be unpublished and may be previously made available in preprint repositories. The duplication or republication of articles already published in other magazines is prohibited. Articles must also contain the following elements: title, abstract and keywords in the original language of the article text and English when this is not the original language. Publications should preferably be made in Portuguese and English and may be translated into more than one language. One of the most important evaluation factors is the correct use of the language, the quality of the translations and the use of controlled lists of keywords.
The next aim of this editorial team is to get SCOPUS indexing, a challenge that integrates other requirements in the management of Millenium - Journal of Education Technologies and Health.