The library science - Scielo Venezuela, covers a selected collection of Venezuelan scientific journals in different areas of knowledge. This collection includes those magazines that besides belonging to the National Register of periodic publications, have obtained a score above 50% in the Assessment of Merit which regularly conducts the National Fund for Technology and Innovation (FONACIT). Alike, these magazines have been benefiting from funding provided by the FONACIT for electronic publishing and selected by the National Advisory Committee Project Scielo Venezuela (Comite Consultivo Scielo) and constitute the first group of titles that make up the collection Scielo, along the lines and requirements suggested by the Latin American and Caribbean Center information on Health Sciences, Bireme / PAHO / WHO.

FUNDASINADIB as a centre pilot project Scielo Venezuela is committed with publishers to incorporate the new titles and numbers certified to this collection, from the collection of 28 Venezuelan journals that are still in the process of publication under Scielo and methodology can be viewed at page www2.scielo.org.ve.

Scielo is a project of regional character, and is being developed in Venezuela by the National System of documents and information Biomedicine (SINADIB), the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT), the National Fund for Technology and Innovation (FONACIT), the Centre National Information Technology (CNTI) and is supported by Bireme / PAHO / WHO and the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (www.med.ucv.ve). The project is an initiative of scielo FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo), Bireme, and since 2002 has the support of CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Scientific and Technological). It envisages the development of a common methodology for the preparation, storage, dissemination and evaluation of scientific literature in electronic form. In Venezuela Scielo Methodology was adopted in 2002 by the (TCM) as a platform for electronic publishing in full text of the Venezuelan scientific journals. This envisaged in the short term, the incorporation of new titles to the collection scielo Venezuela according to the results of the latest assessment of Merit by the FONACIT.