Biodiversidade Brasileira: the challenges of a Brazilian scientific journal in the public sphere

Abstract

Biodiversidade Brasileira (BioBrasil), from the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity
Conservation – an autarchy linked to the Ministry of the Environment (MMA) – launched
its first edition in 2011. Since then, it has sought to keep itself up to date with technological
innovations and guidelines referring to the good practices of scientific journals, to achieve
the necessary quality for a scientific publication, being an attractive information vehicle for
researchers and useful for readers. Despite the difficulties that a public administration journal
goes through, such as change of government, lack of resources and lack of an exclusive team
for editorial processes, I present BioBrasil's successful experience and the strategies used to
leverage publication, making it increasingly (re) known, inside and outside the institution.