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SciELO at the Web-of-Science
SciELO, the Scientific Electronic Library Online for Spanish and Portuguese publications, is available at the Web of Science (WoS; under the condition of subscription) and also online with open access at http://www.scielo.org . The current routine—scielo.exe—reads downloaded records of the WoS and organizes them into a relational database, similarly to the routine isi.exe for records from the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index or Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
First, one retrieves a document set at the (advanced or basic) search interface of SciELO at WoS. The retrieval can be exported in batches of 500 records via the so-called Marked List on the page that shows the publications. Choose the option “Save to Other File Formats” so that the resulting files contain the data with tagged format; that is, with the tag “AU” before the field with author names, etc. If more than 500 records are downloaded, WoS attributes a sequence number to the file savedrecs.txt such as savedrecs(2).txt.
The program scielo.exe expects a single input file named “data.txt”. The subsequent files from the download can be combined from the C-prompt by typing the following command: C:\MyFolder\copy savedrec*.* data.txt . This file should be placed in the same folder as the program.
Output is a series of databases in the format of dBase 4 (.dbf) that can be (mutually) related using the field “nr”. The file csau.dbf additionally enables the user to relate author names unambiguously to the corresponding address information (insofar as available in the data).
The abstracts in English and the Latin language are also exported (with a reference to the field “nr”) in the files abstract.txt and scielo.txt, respectively. The coding for Spanish and Portuguese diacritical characters is UTF-8. (If so wished, this can be changed using, for example, Open Office.)