diff --git a/plugins/generic/scielo/SciELOPlugin.inc.php b/plugins/generic/scielo/SciELOPlugin.inc.php
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+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file plugins/generic/scielo/SciELOPlugin.inc.php
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2003-2013 John Willinsky
+ * Distributed under the GNU GPL v2. For full terms see the file docs/COPYING.
+ *
+ * @class SciELOPlugin
+ * @ingroup plugins_generic_scielo
+ *
+ * @brief SciELO usage statistics.
+ */
+
+
+import('lib.pkp.classes.plugins.GenericPlugin');
+
+class SciELOPlugin extends GenericPlugin {
+
+	//
+	// Implement methods from PKPPlugin.
+	//
+	/**
+	* @see LazyLoadPlugin::register()
+	*/
+	function register($category, $path) {
+		$success = parent::register($category, $path);
+		return $success;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	* @see PKPPlugin::getDisplayName()
+	*/
+	function getDisplayName() {
+		return __('plugins.generic.scielo.displayName');
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @see PKPPlugin::getDescription()
+	 */
+	function getDescription() {
+		return __('plugins.generic.scielo.description');
+	}
+
+	/**
+	* @see PKPPlugin::isSitePlugin()
+	*/
+	function isSitePlugin() {
+		return true;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	* @see PKPPlugin::getInstallSitePluginSettingsFile()
+	*/
+	function getInstallSitePluginSettingsFile() {
+		return $this->getPluginPath() . '/settings.xml';
+	}
+}
+
+?>
diff --git a/plugins/generic/scielo/SciELOStatsSender.inc.php b/plugins/generic/scielo/SciELOStatsSender.inc.php
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+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file plugins/generic/scielo/SciELOStatsSender.php
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2003-2012 John Willinsky
+ * Distributed under the GNU GPL v2. For full terms see the file docs/COPYING.
+ *
+ * @class SciELOStatsSender
+ * @ingroup plugins_generic_scielo
+ *
+ * @brief Scheduled task to send statistics to SciELO ratchet tool.
+ * @see http://docs.scielo.org/projects/ratchet/en/latest/api.html
+ */
+
+import('lib.pkp.classes.scheduledTask.ScheduledTask');
+import('lib.pkp.classes.webservice.JSONWebService');
+
+class SciELOStatsSender extends ScheduledTask {
+
+	/**
+	 * Constructor.
+	 * @param $argv array task arguments
+	 */
+	function SciELOStatsSender($args) {
+		parent::ScheduledTask($args);
+
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @see FileLoader::execute()
+	 */
+	function execute() {
+		$plugin = PluginRegistry::getPlugin('generic', 'SciELOPlugin');
+		$unregisteredSettingName = 'scieloUnregisteredStats';
+
+		// Get journals with stats to be sent.
+		$journalDao = DAORegistry::getDAO('JournalDAO'); /* @var $journalDao JournalDAO */
+		$journalSettingsDao = DAORegistry::getDAO('JournalSettingsDAO'); /* @var $journalSettingsDao JournalSettingsDAO */
+		$journalFactory = $journalDao->getBySetting($unregisteredSettingName, true);
+
+		// Send journal stats.
+		while ($journal = $journalFactory->next()) {
+			if (!$this->_claimObject($journalSettingsDao, $journalId)) continue;
+			$lastStatsSendingDate = $journalSettingsDao->getSetting($journalId, 'scieloLastStatsSendingDate');
+
+			if (!$this->_isMigratedStatsSent($journalSettingsDao, $journalId)) {
+				$this->_sendMigratedStats($journalSettingsDao, ASSOC_TYPE_JOURNAL, $journal, $lastStatsSendingDate);
+			}
+
+			$metrics = $journal->getMetrics(OJS_METRIC_TYPE_COUNTER);
+		}
+
+
+		$serverUrl = '200.136.72.14:8860/';
+		$jsonMessage = json_encode(array(
+			'code' => '123456',
+			'journal' => '0034-8910',
+    		'issue' => '0034-891020090004',
+    		'article.y2011.m10.d01' => 100,
+    		'article.y2011.m10.d02' => 100,
+    		'article.y2011.m10.d03' => 100,
+    		'article.y2012.m11.d01' => 10,
+    		'article.y2012.m11.a02' => 10,
+    		'article.y2012.m11.a03' => 10,
+    		'article.y2012.m10.total' => 300,
+    		'article.y2012.m11.total' => 30,
+    		'article.y2012.total' => 330,
+    		'total' => 330,
+    		'bra' => 200,
+    		'mex' => 100,
+    		'arg' => 10,
+    		'col' => 20
+    	));
+
+		$serverUrl = $serverUrl . 'api/v1/article/bulk?data=' . $jsonMessage ;
+		$webServiceRequest = new WebServiceRequest($serverUrl);
+		$webServiceRequest->setMethod('POST');
+		$webServiceRequest->setAccept('application/json');
+		$webServiceRequest->setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');
+
+		$webService = new WebService();
+		$webService->call($webServiceRequest);
+
+		// Check the reponse status.
+		if ($webService->getLastResponseStatus() == '200') {
+			return true;
+		} else {
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
+
+
+	//
+	// Private helper methdos.
+	//
+	/**
+	 * Tries to claim the passed object id to start the statistics
+	 * send process.
+	 * @param $settingsDao SettingsDAO
+	 * @param $objectId int
+	 * @return boolean Whether or not the claim was successful.
+	 */
+	private function _claimObject($settingsDao, $objectId) {
+		if (!is_a($settingsDao, 'SettingsDAO')) assert(false);
+
+		$claimedSettingName = 'scieloObjectClaimed';
+		if (!$settingsDao->getSetting($objectId, $claimedSettingName)) {
+			// Claim the object.
+			$settingsDao->updateSetting($objectId, $claimedSettingName, true);
+			return true;
+		} else {
+			// Already claimed by another instance of this script.
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Check if the statistics collected by previous versions of
+	 * OJS and migrated when upgrading were already sent to SciELO.
+	 * @param $settingsDao SettingsDAO
+	 * @param $objectId int
+	 * @return boolean
+	 */
+	private function _isMigratedStatsSent($settingsDao, $objectId) {
+		if (!is_a($settingsDao, 'SettingsDAO')) assert(false);
+		return $settingsDao->getSetting($objectId, 'scieloMigratedStatsSent');
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Send the statistics collected by previous versions of OJS
+	 * and migrated when upgrading to SciELO.
+	 * @param $settingsDao SettingsDAO
+	 * @param $assocType int
+	 * @param $assocObject DataObject
+	 * @param $lastStatsSendingDate timestamp
+	 */
+	private function _sendMigratedStats($settingsDao, $assocType, $assocObject, $lastStatsSendingDate) {
+		if (!is_a($settingsDao, 'SettingsDAO')) assert(false);
+		switch ($assocType) {
+			case ASSOC_TYPE_JOURNAL:
+				// Get the statistics.
+				$metrics = $assocObject->getMetrics(OJS_METRIC_TYPE_LEGACY_COUNTER, array(STATISTICS_DIMENSION_MONTH));
+				if($metrics) {
+					$message = array(
+						'code' => $assocObject->getId(),
+						'journal.y2011.m10.d01' => 100,
+			    		'article.y2011.m10.d02' => 100,
+			    		'article.y2011.m10.d03' => 100,
+			    		'article.y2012.m11.d01' => 10,
+			    		'article.y2012.m11.a02' => 10,
+			    		'article.y2012.m11.a03' => 10,
+			    		'article.y2012.m10.total' => 300,
+			    		'article.y2012.m11.total' => 30,
+			    		'article.y2012.total' => 330,
+			    		'total' => 330,
+			    		'bra' => 200,
+			    		'mex' => 100,
+			    		'arg' => 10,
+			    		'col' => 20
+					);
+				}
+		}
+	}
+}
+?>
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diff --git a/plugins/generic/scielo/index.php b/plugins/generic/scielo/index.php
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+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @defgroup plugins_generic_scielo
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @file plugins/generic/scielo/index.php
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2003-2013 John Willinsky
+ * Distributed under the GNU GPL v2. For full terms see the file docs/COPYING.
+ *
+ * @ingroup plugins_generic_scielo
+ * @brief Wrapper for scielo statistics plugin.
+ *
+ */
+require_once('SciELOPlugin.inc.php');
+
+return new SciELOPlugin();
+
+?>
diff --git a/plugins/generic/scielo/locale/en_US/locale.xml b/plugins/generic/scielo/locale/en_US/locale.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE locale SYSTEM "../../../../../lib/pkp/dtd/locale.dtd">
+
+<!--
+  * plugins/generic/scielo/locale/en_US/locale.xml
+  *
+  * Copyright (c) 2003-2013 John Willinsky
+  * Distributed under the GNU GPL v2. For full terms see the file docs/COPYING.
+  *
+  * Localization strings
+  -->
+
+<locale name="en_US" full_name="U.S. English">
+	<message key="plugins.generic.scielo.displayName">SciELO statistics</message>
+	<message key="plugins.generic.scielo.description">Communicate with SciELO server to post and get data objects usage statistics.</message>
+</locale>
diff --git a/plugins/generic/scielo/scheduledTasks.xml b/plugins/generic/scielo/scheduledTasks.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+
+<!--
+  * plugins/generic/usageStats/scheduledTasks.xml
+  *
+  * Copyright (c) 2003-2012 John Willinsky
+  * Distributed under the GNU GPL v2. For full terms see the file docs/COPYING.
+  *
+  * Usage statistics plugin scheduled tasks registry file.
+  *
+  * This file lists all usage statistics plugin scheduled tasks to be executed by the system.
+  *
+  * Note that this functionality requires scheduled task support to be enabled.
+  * The degree of granularity supported for the task frequency depends on the
+  * frequency the scheduled task script itself is scheduled to run (as
+  * configured in cron, for example).
+  -->
+
+<!DOCTYPE scheduled_tasks SYSTEM "../../../lib/pkp/dtd/scheduledTasks.dtd">
+
+<scheduled_tasks>
+	<task class="plugins.generic.scielo.SciELOStatsSender">
+		<descr>Send usage statistics data to SciELO database.</descr>
+	</task>
+</scheduled_tasks>
diff --git a/plugins/generic/scielo/settings.xml b/plugins/generic/scielo/settings.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE plugin_settings SYSTEM "../../../lib/pkp/dtd/pluginSettings.dtd">
+
+<!--
+  * plugins/generic/scielo/settings.xml
+  *
+  * Copyright (c) 2003-2013 John Willinsky
+  * Distributed under the GNU GPL v2. For full terms see the file docs/COPYING.
+  *
+  * Default plugin settings.
+  *
+  -->
+
+<plugin_settings>
+	<setting type="bool">
+		<name>enabled</name>
+		<value>false</value>
+	</setting>
+	<setting type="string">
+		<name>serverUrl</name>
+		<value>"http://200.136.72.14:8860/"</value>
+	</setting>
+</plugin_settings>
+