Associação Brasileira de Editores Científicos

The Associação Brasileira de Editores Científicos (ABEC Brasil), is a Brazilian nonprofit organization founded in 1985, and dedicated to the advancement of publication of scientific journals.

ABEC Brasil is headquartered in Botucatu, São Paulo (state), Brazil and its president is Sigmar de Mello Rode.

[1] ABEC Brasil was founded on October 11, 1985, during the Second Meeting of Scientific Journal Editors, at ICB/USP.

Its first President was Francisco Alberto de Moura Duarte.

[2] ABEC Brasil is interested in developing and improving the publication of scientific journals, and stimulates this through regularly publishing material of scientific editorial interest, promoting of conferences, seminars and courses, and maintaining contact with institutions and related societies in Brazil and abroad.