International Coalition of Library Consortia

Programa de Apoio a Aquisição de periodicos - PAAP
(Portal.periodicos CAPES)
Website: www.periodicos.capes.gov.br

cac@capes.gov.br
acesso@periodicos.capes.gov.br

Phone 55-61-2104-8318
Fax 55-61-2104-9631

 Jorge Almeida Guimaraes
President
jguimaraes@capes.gov.br

Jose Fernandes de Lima
Director of Programs
jose.lima@capes.gov.br

Elenara Chaves Edler de Almeida
Coordenadora de Acesso à Informação Cientifica e Tecnológica
elenara.almeida@capes.gov.br

Number of office staff: 10 information/administration, 4 technical/informatics

 

Brief description

The Portal.periodicos Capes is the brazilian national eletronic library consortium for science and technology. The program is maintaind by Capes, a public foundation attached to the Ministry of Education with the mission to promote the development of graduate and research programs in Brazil. More than 1,321,000 faculty members, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students and technical personnel of 152 institutions have free access to the full-text of more than 9,000 leading journals and the premier multidisciplinary and subject databases covering all areas of academic activity. With an annual budget of US$29,120,333 and 23,167,534 access in 2004, the Portal.periodico. Capes is a successful government service to the academic community in Brazil.

Legal structure

Government-supported

Primary functions

Number and type of member libraries

181, Academic
Last updated September 2005
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