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Historically, scientific communication was dominated by marketing dynamics in which oligopolies of commercial scientific publishers charged high fees so that researchers could have access to the scientific publications of their peers. Given the unsustainability of this model for the scientific community, the Open Access Movement first emerged and, more recently and with new contributions, open science. Faced with this context, and aware of the competences for which it was founded, the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict) began to create infrastructures, projects, and actions aimed at achieving the precepts defended by the aforementioned movements. The objective of this work is to indicate and describe the actions, projects, and infrastructures regarding scientific communication created and coordinated by Ibict in the context of open access and open science. This article presents a document research work with a qualitative approach, as analyses were performed on various types of sources. Since the beginning of the 2000s, Ibict has been working firmly to build the necessary infrastructures to promote open access and, more recently, open science. This effort is reflected on the 14 actions, projects, and infrastructures that were created and coordinated by or in partnership with the Institute. The infrastructures presented herein denote the effort undertaken by Ibict to promote scientific communication in an open and transparent manner. Complementary to each other, such infrastructures are capable of creating a national framework in favor of the pillars of open access and open science, highlighting Brazil on the international stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Understanding Open Access and Open Science as concrete possibilities to diversify and make visible the sciences of the Global South, break inequalities and promote collaborative production of knowledge, in this paper we present the results of a research on academic evaluation policies in the group of CLACSO Centers in Venezuela. The research was developed through the application of a survey and 11 interviews as data collection instruments, to heads of centers and networks in Venezuela, and the subsequent systematization of the responses to build a proposal for a collective statement for the development and implementation of a fair, equitable and democratic science. Of the 64 centers, 44 participated in the survey. Among the main results we found that, despite not having an explicit evaluation system, the centers consulted point to the need for the development of a fairer science, emphasizing a model of science that is very different from the modern hegemonic scientific system and traditional evaluations. The fact that most centers do not have precise evaluation mechanisms creates an opportunity to promote a critical reflection on which mechanisms can contribute to the creation of a more democratic science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Scientific communication in its new model of performance, enabling access to information in an open way, has contributed so that society can resort to scientific production in an easier way, which has occurred due to its availability in open access journals and institutional repositories. The retrieval of information, in a scientific context, provides access to the intellectual production from the possibility of its search in retrieval systems. Objective: To analyze the information retrieval systems (IRS) based on the search tools of the Brazilian institutional repositories of theses and dissertations available in the BDTD and its databases, comparing them with the parameters established by IBICT. Methodology: Conducts bibliographic research on the theme and documentary research from access to the standards, guidelines and manuals provided by IBICT. Results: It confirms that the institutions participating in the BDTD do not necessarily need to stick to the standards in a partial way established by IBICT, being necessary only that they assign to their repositories the mandatory metadata standards, along with the use of the OAI-PMH protocol and the use of XML technology so that the collection of data occurs for availability in the national BDTD portal. Conclusion: the information retrieval systems of the repositories have technological tools and specifications that confer navigation in the systems by the users, contributing to the best search experience and access to information relevant to the informational issues of the same. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Scholarly communication in social sciences and humanities has developed through monographic publications. In recent decades, electronic books have become prominent for communication in these areas. Objective: Given the importance of creating a more democratic science and the consolidation and advances of open access presented in recent times, this research identifies the current state of scientific knowledge on the production, distribution, and use of open access electronic books in the social sciences and humanities. Methodology: Based on a qualitative methodological approach, the study used the systematic literature review (SLR) method with the library and information science abstracts (LISA) and the Scopus databases, which has international recognition within the areas of information science, social sciences and humanities. Results: Forty two articles that discussed the analyzed themes were verified based on the defined SLR protocols and StArt tool. Conclusions: It was concluded that the social sciences and humanities area has been using open access digital books in its research, and academic libraries and university press are the main actors in their distribution. Moreover, some technological, social, economic obstacles persist in the use and production of studies on the subject owing to its reduced importance compared to research on open access journals in various other areas of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The response to the Covid-19 pandemic caused the expansion of the volume of scientific data and the encouragement of Open Science (OS) practices as scientists share their data in attempts to control the global public health emergency. As a result, opportunities for OS have also expanded during the pandemic. Objective: The herein study aimed to map shared narratives about OS practices during the pandemic paying particular attention to debates on public access to knowledge and practices and values of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Methodology: We have conducted a thematic and documental analysis of 30 journal articles, news pieces, blog posts and institutional material published in Portuguese obtained via keyword searches on SciELO, Google, Chamber of Deputies and the Senate databases. Results: Data shows that 36.6% (11) of the documents mentioned EDI while 70% (21) included discussions on public and universal access to scientific knowledge. As the documents could mention both themes, they were coded in both categories as needed. In addition, 23% (7) of the sample did not mention any of these categories while 77% presented discussions on at least one of them. Conclusion: Open Science practices were associated with the need of a rapid response to the pandemic leading to questions on whether these practices will endure following the absence of such urgency. Regardless of being in its preliminary state, the EDI debate pointed to opportunities for co-production of knowledge and the need for more inclusive practices, including live public debates on evidence production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Open Science is a movement largely based on knowledge sharing and its discussion has been carried out by several areas, including Information Science. Scientific collaboration has potential to benefit science in several ways, however, little is known about country collaboration in this area. Objective: Therefore, the objective of this work is to analyze scientific cooperation between countries on the subject of Open Science in the field of Information Science. Methodology: The network analysis method (co-authorship between countries) and the frequency of keywords were used to identify the most discussed subjects. Results: The results showed that England has a central position in the scientific collaboration network. However, it is necessary to improve communication to avoid loss of quality in the information transmission. Conclusion: The Open Access theme is still the most evident, however, topics such as research data management have gained notoriety in discussions on Open Science in the field of Information Science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Open science is increasingly prominent in international science policy agendas, converging towards the understanding that its consolidation as an academic practice depends on the reformulation of the current research evaluation system. Objective: To map the citizen laboratories subsidized by Federal Universities of Brazil and to analyze their scope of action, in order to understand their role in terms of social innovation and how they promote the participation of citizen scientists. Methodology: It consisted of a survey of the Federal Universities of Brazil through the institutional site of the Ministry of Education, where sixtyfour institutions were identified. The next step was to search the institutional site of each one of the mapped Federal Universities using pre-determined search expressions. The parameters used to frame the initiatives as citizen labs were: 1) openness for social participation; 2) possibility to explore and appropriate technologies aimed at social interests; 3) focus on learning; 4) targeting the promotion of social innovations. Results: It was observed that countries with more comprehensive policies recognize the need to reformulate recognition and reward mechanisms to include open science components. Only the French policy presents more concrete indications of changes. Colombia's National Open Science Policy 2022-2031 sets goals and execution deadlines for the adoption of open science in research evaluation and classification of groups and researchers, based on the proposal to review its accreditation systems for programs and institutions. The plans of the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Finland also anticipate changes after examining the current instruments and criteria they adopt, whether by verifying the feasibility of using altmetric indicators (Netherlands), including new methods (Slovenia), or considering new and variable formats of publication (Finland). Conclusion: There is some limitation in moving from a supportive discursive policy towards open science to a policy with devices that imply concrete changes in the criteria and procedures used in evaluations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research describes the most prolific scientific journals in Engineering indexed in the Web of Science. It is a qualitative and quantitative analysis and adopts Bradford's law applied to bibliometrics, that was applied as a methodological choice, which enabled the systematic comparison between the units of impact factor analysis of the Journal Citation Reports and SCImago Journal Rank, Qualis CAPES, Publishers, and types of access. The data were gathered in the main collection of the Web of Science database in the 2013-2018 time frame. As a result, 1,037 journals were identified, of which 29 are the core journals that correspond to 7,333 of the retrieved articles. When comparing Qualis CAPES, JCR, and SJR, the data show that the highest impact factor is not reflected in Qualis CAPES. Subscription journals controlled by that are affiliated to commercial publishers predominate, Elsevier is the one with the highest number of titles (48.3%) and articles (3,268). This work concludes that researchers in Engineering affiliated to Brazilian institutions direct their articles to subscription scientific journals classified within A1 category in Qualis Periódicos, regardless of the impact factor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study deals with the Institutional Repository as an auxiliary means of obtaining, organizing, disseminating, and managing scientific and academic information. The objective of this research is to present the scenario of theses and dissertations on Institutional Repositories and Open Access in the period from 2015 to 2021 in the Capes Theses and Dissertations Catalog. It is classified as descriptive research, with a qualitative-quantitative approach, using Bibliometrics as a technique for quantitative evaluation of science. The results indicated 148 monographs found in total, with the year 2020 having the highest number of publications compared to the other years. The Brazilian region that obtained the highest concentration was the Southeast. Furthermore, the Higher Education Institution that has produced the most papers on these themes is the São Paulo State University, in its Graduate Program in Information Science. It was identified that the research lines that obtained a more expressive production were Librarianship, Culture and Society and Technological Management and Sustainable Society. A total of 148 authors were accounted for, however, 38 advisors were identified, among which six advised two or more theses and dissertations. It was therefore concluded that there has been an increase in the number of studies involving Institutional Repositories and Open Access by Brazilian researchers in recent years, although there have been oscillations in terms of increases and decreases in the temporal evolution of productions, which is of great importance, since the problems concerning access to information are present in the new panorama of technological advances in the context of Scholarly Communication and Open Access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conflicts of interest, cases of scientific fraud, and limitations on research by intellectual property laws have led to questions about the epistemic and social justice adequacy of industry-funded research. The Open Science ideal - which promotes transparency, collaboration, and accountability-seems to address the limitations of commercially driven research. However, the Open Science movement focuses on publicly funded research, encourages ties to the private sector, and creates new strategies for commercializing science. Thus, Open Science ends up contributing to the commercialization of science rather than overcoming its limitations; and the asymmetry between private and public science, present in the current plea to Open Science, ends up compromising the values that this ideal promotes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Open Access to scientific literature is a movement that has been developing for more than two decades and has become more complex as a domain of knowledge. Because of the advances in this area, some institutions create open access policies that express norms, values and paradigms on the subject. Objective: The objective of this study is to identify the fundamental aspects of open access representations in Brazilian institutional policies. Methodology: It uses as a qualitative approach the domain analysis and the theoretical-methodological course of content analysis through the application of the categorical technique. Performs the mapping of documents from the Melibea open access policy directory. Results: It points out that there is acknowledgment of the importance of open access as a strategy for the democratization and universalization of knowledge for society and indicates important aspects from the viewpoint of analyzed Brazilian institutions such as copyright, preservation, and open data. Conclusion: It concludes that there are terminological relationships to be considered in the open access domain and that the policies are important to institutionally align the understanding of fundamental concepts as well as to guide open access practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growing call for open access to and sharing of research data, mainly for reuse purposes, implies conceptual discussions about the term "research data", regarding which there is little consensus, as disciplinary differences strongly influence how they are regarded. In general, they can be defined as products obtained through systematic investigation processes that include collection, observation, experimentation, tests or similar procedures. Thus, the purpose of this article is, after reflecting briefly on the concept of research data, to identify best practices recommended for their management. The study was carried out by conducting bibliographic research, with the purpose of developing a theoretical framework. Subsequently, practices linked to the research data management process in the context of University Libraries were outlined. In order to verify whether these practices match those already adopted by university libraries, scientific publications reporting initiatives aimed at promoting research data management practices were identified. Based on the established criteria, 10 articles that describe research data management practices in University Libraries from every continent were selected for analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There have been cases of discontinuity, interruption of submissions, and long delays in manuscript evaluation in low-budget Brazilian journals in information science, possibly related to the capacity and health condition of their editors. What is the effect of increased workload on editors' stress? In this article, we simulate four scenarios of the stress of those editors using data on the number of submissions, evaluations, and editorial decisions. We use system dynamics to model stocks and flows of articles through the editorial process, describing four scenarios of the stress of journal editors for 72 months, with different submission loads. In two scenarios, with moderate submission loads, editors keep stress and total evaluation time at acceptable levels, increasing productivity under a small overhead, in accordance with the literature. In the two scenarios with the highest submission overload, the number of hours worked per month escalates, as well as the total evaluation time, and the accumulated stress. The exclusive but insufficient state funding for journals does not provide for high-quality editorial work in a timely manner. This threatens editors' health and favors the interruption of submissions, delays, and even the collapse of those journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Publication in scientific journals is crucial for the internationalization efforts of researchers and institutions. The objective of this study is to analyze the internationalization of journals in which authors affiliated to a university ranked in the top ten in Brazil publishes, with the specific objectives of: a) to identify the language of the articles; b) to describe the distribution of titles and publishers; and c) to identify the type of access. The method was multidimentional and the data collected in the Web of Science database and on the journals site. The results show that the publications doubled in the period from 2010 to 2019, with emphasis on growth of Social Sciences. In general, 83% of the articles are published in English, in the Physical Sciences the percentage reaches 96%. The most article are published in commercial publishers, except in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences where universities predominate. The publisher with the largest number of articles and journals is Elsevier. The journal with the largest number of articles is PLOS One, followed by several Brazilian open access journal. The conclusion shows a remarkable behavioral diversity between the areas of knowledge, which points to the need to clearly define what internationalization is for the different areas. The predominance of commercial publishers in number of articles and journals, head by Elsevier, show the evasion of scientific records, paid for 'peripheral' public resources, for the custody of companies linked to academic publishers oligopoly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To describe the experience of a research department at the School of Public Health of Ceará in disclosing preliminary data from the clinical study using the Elmo helmet as a hospital support strategy in the fight against Covid-19 to society. Experience report, described in August 2021, by researchers from the Scientific Investigation Center of the School of Public Health of Ceará. The event took place on November 4th with the release of research data. There was the participation of 1,400 people and 4,500 Views, being broadcast on the YouTube channel of the Escola de Saúde Pública. The speakers were the main creators of the technology. The dissemination of research data to society is necessary, being an initiative to improve processes and develop capabilities for the results of research carried out in the institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Open source rhetoric is increasingly applied to culture, but there is little consensus on what it means in this area. The objective of this work is to understand the translation processes of linguistic knowledge from free software and open source movements to the circulation of cultural works during the period 2000-2010. The research presents a qualitative approach, uses the multiple case study method and applies the document review technique. The units of analysis are the Open Access, Open Knowledge and Free Cultural Works initiatives. The article explores the re-significations produced in the translations and points out a group of non-profit organizations governing these processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In view of Covid-19´s public health emergency of international concern and the importance of data sharing and open data for research in this context, the work aims to identify data infrastructure that declared the term COVID-19, analyzing aspects and conditions of deposit, access and use of this data, including terms and/or licenses for its use. Searches for data infrastructures were carried out in the re3data.org directory and the results were presented from pre-defined categories. There are 65 data infrastructures that have the term Covid-19 indexed and most of them have restricted upload, open access to data and databases, sometimes associated with registers and questionnaires, but without licenses that favor free reuse of the data. It is considered that there are considerable advances in the creation of data infrastructures when compared to other ESPIIs, but there is a need for qualified discussion to respond to emergencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In February 2021, the Foundation for Science and Technology of Portugal (FCT) announced its decision to adopt Plan S. Plan S aims to ensure that from 2021 onwards, all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants must be published in Open Access journals or platforms, and/or made immediately available through open access repositories without embargo and with copyright retention. Compliance with Plan S can be achieved via three different routes: publication in an Open Access journal or platform, publication in a closed venue with the manuscript deposit made immediately openly available in a repository, or publication under the umbrella of a transformative agreement. Plan S also follows ten fundamental principles, which imply multiple challenges to the funders, but also to authors and their institutions. These challenges equate to, in some cases, to complete changes in paradigm. With adequate and well-articulated measures, the authors believe that the adoption of Plan S by FCT will result in a better projection of the funded research work. Ultimately, this will lead, in the long run, to a better return on investment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current global pandemic context, social distancing sanitary guidelines and all the resulting and still active effects have raised alternatives for the continuity of activities, for remote control of the pandemic. In this scenario, content availability databases, especially in open access, but also e-commerce, were allies of readers. SciELO Books, which in 2021 completes nine years in operation, proved to be an accessible source of research and an alternative to serve the academic public. This case study aims to verify how the pandemic affected access to the open access book collection of the SciELO Books Portal through a comparative analysis of the years 2019 and 2020. The data revealed that the pandemic and the difficulty of access to physical materials leveraged the use of databases and content portals to access information, resulting in a 46% increase in open access digital book downloads, with emphasis on Medicine, Education, Psychology and Social Science books. It is concluded that the pandemic generated a greater consumption of digital books, which can produce permanent effects with the potential to change more quickly the configuration of the book production chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to investigate the protection regime of access and licensing of knowledge conveyed by Brazilian journals of upper stratum (A1 and A2) related to Exact, Technological and Multidisciplinary Sciences Area in CAPES Qualis Journals system. The research problem could be expressed by the question: how are editorial policies of these journals constituted taking into account the current Brazilian copyright legislation? Stemming from the notions of duty and the aspiration of the law, as well as the techniques of argumentation 'inside' and 'beyond' the machine, it is possible to infer that the editorial policies of these journals reveal a rupture with the traditional copyright system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to identify what are the difficulties encountered by academic educational institutions of the federal network in Brazil when implementing their institutional repositories. Methodology: a questionnaire was sent via email to the federal institutes from December 2020 to January 2021, 70 responses were obtained. The analysis of the data reveals that 90% of the Institutes tried at some point to start the implementation of an institutional repository and only 17% concluded it successfully. The main barriers pointed out refer to difficulties related to the technical knowledge of software by the information technology team, the lack of human resources, technical knowledge of the library staff and lack of interest from higher levels leaders. It is concluded, therefore, that libraries, despite being engaged and recognizing the importance of the institutional repository, need to improve communication between sectors, the qualification of information technology and library teams and the visibility of this service to successfully complete their projects deployment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It describes the temporal dynamics of the scholarly communication system, starting from the conception of the first research sharing activities to the current debates of this system, which have led to new forms of communication and the appearance of new conjunctures and contextualizes the actors involved in this system. As a methodology, this exploratory research is based on the literature review specialized in the studied domain and uses the narrative review method, which is non-systematic and non-exhaustive. As conclusions, some recent transformations resulting from the demands and efforts of the Academia to mitigate the problems caused by the new coronavirus in the COVID-19 pandemic are cited, such as the acceleration of peer review processes and the explosion of preprints as a device for open access dissemination and rapid dissemination of research results. Finally, it highlights the urgency of science communication beyond the academy, observing the process of knowledge translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The discussion on what open access can give to science has become polarized in recent years. On the one hand, the first decade of the new millennium brought us an enthusiasm that one can consider as quite comprehensive in the scientific community, regarding the great potential of open access in the dissemination of knowledge, its sharing and the mechanisms of citizen participation in the scientific process. On the other hand, the last few years have brought us a new debate that addresses and criticizes the derivation of open access to a new business model. By supporting this article with an extensive review of the literature on a topic that is still residual in studies that intersect the areas of science communication and the field of the economics of science, we propose to summarize the main reasons evoked by a side and the other. Among the positive points, we highlight the potential of open access in the dissemination of knowledge, the increased visibility of this knowledge, the involvement of society and professionals in the scientific process through civic participation logics, greater efficiency and interaction with benefits for the research projects themselves, the retention of publication rights by the authors, the redistribution of resources, and the greater transparency of a more scrutinizing model. Among the negative points, we can essentially highlight the inability to combat a kind of parallel science economy, which takes advantage of open access and the logic of academic overproduction, to establish the so-called "article processing charges" with little transparency and with publication rates often in excess of several thousand euros, which violate the principles of open science and generate inequalities in opportunities within the scientific community itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the research is to explore the possibilities of access and uses of government open data whose technological appropriation can foster modes of participation of society. It is assumed that the availability of data by the government is configured as a platform for the promotion of civic engagement in e-government. It is tried to demonstrate how the initiative of these portals is in the appropriation of the digital platforms as a way of approaching and creating participatory spaces to strategies of action aiming at the transparency of data. For this investigation, a literature review and an exploratory-descriptive study and systematic observation of the Data.gov (USA) and the Brazilian Open Data (BRA) were carried out. The results suggest that open data can provide democratic processes through the principles of transparency, participation, access and use. On the other hand, it also identifies tensions in the process in terms of greater platform friendliness, updating and visibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A variety of business models can be observed among open access journals. The purpose of this research was to map the business models of Brazilian open access journals registered in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), in order to assess their financial sustainability. The research method utilized was bibliographic and document research focusing on existing and possible business models for open access journals. The data was classified by research area. The analysis was made based on the current context of scientific research in Brazil, the literature and information obtained directly from the journals. The results show the prevalence of three business models, related to the article processing charges (APCs). Only a small number of journals use these charges. Concerning the APCs, there was a large variability between the values, indicating that there is no clear consensus about the ideal value. We conclude that the predominance of external funding demonstrates the economical vulnerability of the journals. The mixed business model, using financing and APCs, appears as a viable model, but only as a temporary solution, exposing the need for a deeper discussion of the business models adopted by Brazilian open access journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Science is currently marked by movements of tension and rupture, increasingly sharp and in cycles of short duration. Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, among others, are fundamental operative concepts in the relationship between libraries and science production and dissemination. This work is a literature review, that seeks to follow the historical roadmap of collaboration between libraries and the opening of science. Outlining the scenario that marks science today - from the Open Access to Open Science movement - the intention is to understand to what extent this landscape influences the role of libraries in scientific research. The objective is to provide a general picture of Open Science, focusing on the theoretical implications that this landscape entails for libraries. The main issue is to understand, on the one hand, what Open Access and Open Science mean for libraries and how they are behaving in the face of these dynamics; on the other hand, how researchers view the role of libraries in this broad and new scientific landscape. These issues will be observed in a review structure divided into three parts: Open Access origins, the emergence of Open Science, and the role of libraries in opening science. It is concluded that libraries participated from the beginning in the process of opening science and continue to strive today to play a relevant role in this social and cultural process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aims to identify trends and gaps in the literature on Open Science. For this, the movements belonging to open Science were investigated: open access, open data, open source, citizen Science, open educational resources, open lab notebooks and open peer review. The research is characterized as descriptive with a qualitative nature, and the data collection and analysis will be carried out according to the strategies of the Systematized Literature Review. In the analysis of the data, the selected articles will be classified according to the five school softhought proposed by Fecher and Friesike (2013). They are: Public, Democratic, Pragmatic, Infrastructure and Measurement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This descriptive survey article deals with specialized sources of open access information. Applies the literature review with a bibliographical and documentary survey. In order to verify the existence of specialized sources of open access. It serves as a basis for reflections on the use and propagation of open access sources. Data and examples from specialized sources were collected on: Digital Library, Database, Directories, Portals, Repositories, Metabuscadores and Blogs. It is concluded that, open access facilitates the sharing of scientific and strategic information, this scenario permeates the use of these sources by the scientific community and all society, with access to the web networks. It has been found that the use of digital libraries, database and directories containing sources of open access is increasing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PTCRIS (Portuguese Current Research Information System) is a program aiming at the creation and sustained development of a national integrated information ecosystem, to support research management according to the best international standards and practices. The PTCRIS ecosystem has several system types: CV, researchers and organisations management, project management, grant management and, also the systems for managing the outputs and outcomes of science, where The Scientific Open Access Repository of Portugal (RCAAP) is an important piece. RCAAP, has as main mission to promote, support and facilitate the adoption of the open access movement in scientific knowledge in Portugal through an organized repository's network. System integration for each one of the system type's referred in the PTCRIS ecosystem, passes by the adoption of a set of standards that we designate PTCRIS normative framework and it's aligned with international reference standards. One of the standards issued in this framework is the unique identifiers, particularly the researcher's unique identifiers. Following the best international practices, PTCRIS has selected ORCID for this purpose. ORCID is a non-profit organisation, community based and opened initiative. Besides supporting researcher's unique identifiers, it also make available services that, in the PTCRIS context, have the ability to ensure that one item is inserted once in the ecosystem. This paper describes the process of technical and functional requirements identification of RCAAP repositories for ORCID integration, a comparative analysis for each of the three DSpace platforms and the efforts made by RCAAP / PTCRIS teams along with the international community and other responsible entities (DuraSpace, ORCID and CINECA) to embrace the PTCRIS normative framework. As a result of these efforts, we can already affirm that one of DSpace variations will be fully compatible with PTCRIS defined requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the scientific environment, researchers tend to carry out their research and one of the main objectives is the dissemination of the results that are achieved. Therefore, scientific communication is characterized as an important mechanism for the dissemination of research results in the various areas of knowledge. In this context, the articles are characterized as the main elements for the description of the studies carried out, and consequently, of the results achieved. The dissemination of research results, mainly with the adoption of scientific articles, makes it possible to disseminate the techniques and metrics used, as well as the results achieved to a number of interested parties in the research topic. Given this, the publication of articles in open access, appears as an interesting mechanism for the publication of papers, since it facilitates and facilitates access, considering that there are no barriers, mainly financial to access the contents of the works. Therefore, to identify how the results of scientific investigations are being published allows us to understand how scientific communication has been used to disseminate research studies. Considering that broad dissemination and easy access to scientific studies enables and drives the evolution of research, this work aims to identify and analyze the set of researchers who have used open access journals to disseminate the results of their research, allowing wide dissemination and access to your works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The search engines of electronic scientific journals consist of software applications with fields that the user can fill in order to request the retrieval of some subject. The present research analyzes the search in three internationally renowned journals Nature, Science and PLOS Biology. In order to do so, we present a brief bibliographic review of the search system and its components. The results of the analysis are shown below. The method chosen was the inspection by checklist, carried out using test sentences described for this research based on reference authors in the area such as Rosenfeld, Morville and Arango (2015), Kalbach (2009) and Garrett (2011). Systematic and in-depth verification enabled us to list the resources applied to the search of high visibility scientific journals. On the other hand, it was possible to identify points where some modifications would bring benefits to the users' experience of the journals. In addition, through the comparison between the three journals, the best solutions used in each of the search engines were evidenced. Considering the importance of journals for scientific communication, it is understood as relevant studies aimed at the constant updating of their systems. The analysis of the search contributes to the improvement of these information vehicles and, consequently, promotes the visibility of the published texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It addresses research data resulting from research carried out in Brazilian teaching and research institutions and the need to make it public, through open access in repositories, in order to validate the results obtained and published, as well as to foster new research and socialize the knowledge. It aims to explore the national and international scenario and present the planning of an investigation that seeks a technological solution to effect open access to research data (AADP) from a national perspective. It proposes a methodology divided into five stages: identification of AADP practices in Brazilian institutions; mapping of AADP users and their needs; proposal of a web portal to bring together the national community in AADP; survey of services and technological solutions for the sharing of research data on the international scene; proposing recommendations to support the creation of repositories of research data in national institutions and their aggregation into a research network in AADP. As a result, it brings international initiatives and strategies to undertake the creation of research data repositories, as well as to create communities of practice around the subject. It recommends that the proposal be made up of three strands, in order to support the creation of research data repositories in national institutions and their aggregation into a research network in AADP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the relationship between ethics and scientific communication, bringing dilemmas that are placed in the practices of research and publication, with the objective of fomenting the ethical discussion about scientific practices and in the sense of avoiding research misconduct, that can harm a whole field of knowledge. The focus on ethical issues involves open science, open access to research data versus data privacy, multiple institutional affiliation and impacts on the assessment of authors and institutions scientific productivity, as well as the practice of slicing results in various publications, known as salami slicing. It is concluded that the discussions of these approaches are fundamental for the maintenance of the research scientific status and development of knowledge as a whole. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is believed that the results and impacts of scientific and technological advances resulting from the activities of public research institutions should be widely disseminated and shared in order to promote multiple paths of socialization with the community at large. The objective of this work is to present as good practices of scientific dissemination the event "Coffee with Science", held in the reading room of the Embrapa Amapá Library. In this event, the results of the research are presented in the form of publications of the series Embrapa, recently published and available in open access in the Information Repository of Embrapa, and are discussed in a practical, informal and relaxed way. The event began in 2017, year in which four sessions were held, between August and December. Embrapa Amapá collaborators (scholars and trainees) participated, as well as teachers and students from universities and other teaching and research institutions of region. One of the main results of the event is the dissemination and dissemination of information and knowledge generated in Embrapa Amapá, which consequently have repercussions on the access statistics (consultation and downloads) of the documents available in Infoteca-e and in the repository. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal of this article is to describe the recent developments of the Open Science infrastructure for research in Europe, the OpenAIRE, which is an European Commission's initiative for Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe, that will bring, in upcoming years, new relevant components for the European Science Cloud. The OpenAIRE infrastructure is maintained by the OpenAIRE-Advance project between 2018 and 2020, continuing its mission: to support the Open Access/Open Data mandates in the European Research Area. OpenAIRE infrastructure is presented, and its main actions during the project, highlighting the activities developed in Portugal to promote the European Open Science policies and some results from integration of the Portuguese repositories, articles from Portuguese publishers and research results funded by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) in the OpenAIRE information space. The main services dedicated to repository managers, research communities, science managers and project coordinators, are described as well as the actions for their development are identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education is a fundamental right that helps not only in the development of a country, but also of every individual. Starting from this premise the present study has as main objective the development of educational practices that promotes the empowerment of patients and thus improve their ability to understand and manage their own health and disease. Based on the National Patient Safety Program, developed by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, an educational material was created by means of an accessible language animation, in order to make the interaction between patients and professionals more effective Health, in addition to promoting knowledge about their treatment within the hospital institution. The six attributes developed by the program gather issues of great relevance, because the risk situations associated with health care and in particular adverse events, represent a high morbidity and mortality in health systems. The empowerment of its users, as a concern of health carriers, in addition to being in line with the National Health Agency, the body responsible for its supervision, is still conducting a self-investment, since the promoted knowledge helps in the Qualification of health services and allows effective guarantee of assistance in accordance with parameters that had minimum risks and effectively meet the needs of patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents description of the journal collection with open access content at the CAPES Portal of Journals. Describes the mission and target audience, as well as the practices of open access journal inclusion. This study aims to identify the open scientific production available at the CAPES Portal of Journals collection. The specific goals are: to identify the quantity of open access content in the Portal; to identify the sources in which the open journals are collected; identify the knowledge areas of the open journals present in the Portal. It presents a quantitative survey of the number of journals at CAPES Journal Portal, the quantity of journals with open content, the sources and directories from which the Journals are accessed through the Portal and the open journals classification. It concludes that the CAPES Portal of Journals presents potential to collaborate with the Open Access initiative, but it still is necessary to continue the study about its Open Access content, as well as elaborate strategies and partnerships with the academic community and research institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It aims to present aspects of the collection of information centers of the Network of Art Libraries and Information Centers in the State of Rio de Janeiro that allow open access to certain collections of the units that are members of the Network by its users. The Network has a virtual/digital library of information in Art with part of a collection of libraries that have a similar database. This is exploratory and descriptive research with a qualitative and quantitative approach. Informs that new studies are underway to expand the current catalog. Demonstrates through a survey conducted in 2015 that 81% of representatives of entities associated with REDARTE /RJ use the catalog of the virtual library to meet the information needs of its users. It is noticed that even with the issue of the authorship of the numerous collections of each unit it is possible with the catalog of the virtual library to facilitate the service to the user. The usability of the REDARTE /RJ virtual library is acknowledged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Center for Memory and Information (CMI), of the Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation (FCRB), increasingly invests in dissemination by making its collections available through open access and fostering interoperability between systems. The objective of this report is to describe the activities and experiences that were experienced during the integration process of the Rubem Braga chronicles collection, belonging to the WCM Library of Brazilian Literature (AMLB), through the Interoperability of the Rui Barbosa Repository of Cultural Information (RUBI). The unified portal, called "Portal da Crônica Brasileira", will consist of a unified digital repository of chronicles by Brazilian writers, whose physical collections are under the custody of the FCRB and Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article addresses the initiatives of the Federal University of Minas Gerais in promoting open access to their intellectual production. The institution has been working intensively to implement its Institutional Repository aiming to promote the accessibility and dissemination of the results of its researches, which approximates 20 thousand documentary items produced annually. It is an initiative to create processes to facilitate the importation of reference data from the of the Plataforma Lattes to the Institutional Repository. The Latin American Repository Network, LA Reference, is used as the criterion for standardization. Describes the contextualisation about the Institutional Repository of UFMG, presenting the procedures used for the collection and use of data from the Lattes Platform and the synthesis of the results achieved so far. It is concluded that the import of the data in a standardized way to the repository facilitates the management and expedites the availability of the information. Evidence the importance of integration and interoperability between the Lattes Platform and the repositories and the need to insert correctly the metadata in the Lattes Curriculum because they are essential to facilitate the work of data processing and retrieval of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The lack of knowledge and skills related to open science has been identified as one of the main obstacles to its widespread adoption by the academic and scientific community. Therefore, the training and capacity building of researchers and other stakeholders in research processes is considered as a key component to the success of open science. This paper presents the work developed by the FOSTER Plus project, a European initiative with the objective of promoting, through training and dissemination, the knowledge and practices of Open Access, Open Data and Open Science, within the European Research Area (ERA). Three of the main results of the project will be highlighted. First, the Open Science Toolkit, which brings together basic and intermediate level content, practical examples from three disciplinary areas and evaluation questionnaires, which provide the basic knowledge and skills of open science in a simple and succinct way. Secondly, the Open Science Training Handbook, an educational resource oriented to practical teaching, focused on open science. Bringing together methods, techniques and practices, the manual aims to support trainers to convey knowledge about the principles of open science by educating them and inspiring them to create engaging, high-quality training actions. And finally the FOSTER trainers network, created from the Trainers Bootcamp, which accompanies, supports and encourages trainers formed by the project, to carry out training actions for their communities and institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work proposes a methodology that allows the collection of distributed data, which proves the citation increasing of published articles in scientific journals and available in open access institutional repositories, through a citation curve that shows, over time, the number of new citations distributed in institutional repositories (IR), for articles made available in a given time window. Nowadays, it is inevitable and imminent to concretely demonstrate to researchers the advantages of filing in open access institutional repositories by quantifying the increased impact of publications. Adding value services to repositories requires specialized studies, going beyond counting accesses and downloads. Bibliometric indicators can be used to elicit new insights into future research that provide data on the actual use of scientific production available in open access and relevant information about a particular type of document or author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Measuring the citations of a paper has been a determinant factor in assessing its impact and its subsequent influence in a scientific community. Nevertheless, the development of web-driven communication networks, through which scientific knowledge is shared, has driven the emergence of several informal communication channels, drawing the attention to altmetrics as an additional index of scientific impact. However, the pertinence of its use as a form of measure is still understudied. This study employs a methodology of statistical data collection, using Spearman's correlation coefficient to analyse the data. The goal is to understand to what extent a great interest in certain papers, perceived through a high number of citations, is translated into an equally high influence in altmetric indexes. Complementarily, it is analysed whether papers with a high performance in altmetrics exhibit similar attention in the number of citations in formal databases. As a conclusion, a correlation between the number of citations and the number of mentions of a paper has not been found, with the exception of one of the five analyzed datasets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It studies Brazilian open access scientific journals based on the quality criteria not met by failing periodicals in the evaluation of indexers. The research was characterized as quantitative in relation to the procedures used and descriptive regarding the objectives, with data collection through consultation of two databases: Directory of Open Access Scholarly (ROAD) and Regional Information System Online for Scientific Journals Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (Latindex). The universe was delimited by Brazilian journals extracted from ROAD, later verified in Latindex. As main results, we find that there are 1,128 open access Brazilian scientific journals. As regards their presence in international indexes, it was noticed that 329 titles (29.16%) are covered by one to five indexing services, 7.97% are covered by Web of Science, 22.69% by Scielo and 78.01% by Latindex. Specifically in this index, only 59 journals do not meet the minimum quality criteria, corresponding to 5.23% of the universe of Brazilian scientific journals with open access. Regarding the investigation of the criteria not met, more than half did not adopt continuous content generation (81.36%), indication of submission dates and acceptance of articles (66.10%), and periodicity compliance (50.85%). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Policy development and review, planning, innovation, research, and the measurement of progress, barriers, and opportunities require open access to reliable data, information, and expert knowledge. This is part of the principles of the Pan American Sanitary Code and the Constitution of the Pan American Health Organization. Between 1950 and 1978, the subject of health data collection, in particular vital statistics, was expressly addressed in each of the first seven editions of Health in the Americas. However, despite considerable improvement in data quality, since the early 1980s it has been recognized that countries' health information systems require constant modernization in order to provide health data with better quality, coverage, and timeliness for informed decision-making. With the rise of the Internet, growing access to information and communications technologies--and today, with social networks, the increase in available content--has become massive and is growing in an exponential, unstructured, unclassified, and often uncontrolled manner. This situation forces health institutions to adopt strategies and standards for the management of open data that make it possible to strengthen their quality, confidentiality, and security. We propose a strategy for the governance of health data using tools, concepts, and recommendations that will enable countries to generate open, higher-quality, reliable, and secure data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The global landscape of contemporary scientific publication is characterized by the existence of open access journals that provide results of scientific research in a free and unrestricted manner, through various formats of digital files. Given the multiplicity of access devices, multi-format publication is needed and highlights the importance of adequate information design, as the form of the message influences its perception. In this context, this study aims to analyse the information design in different digital formats of scientific publishing in open access. To this end, a qualitative analysis of a scientific paper in three digital file formats, PDF, HTML and EPUB, was carried out. This procedure took place from the principles of information design brought by Lipton (2007). As result, it was observed that the PDF format presented legibility problems, compromising the principle of clarity. Moreover, in HTML and EPUB formats weaknesses were identified in the principle of hierarchy. On the other hand, there was compliance with the principles of hierarchy and segmentation in PDF format, compliance with the principle of balance and eye flow in the HTML file and the conformity of the principle of clarity in the ePUB version. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to analyze the process of conversion of a cooperative tradition in the field of production and dissemination of knowledge - the SciELO project - in target business operated by a big player in the information sector. Over time, SciELO has become a quality reference and an effective possibility to contest the hegemony in the dissemination of academic and scientific knowledge, especially for the Latin American and Caribbean production, with the global publishing market. We offer a historical overview of the open access movement and the SciELO project. We then analyze the contemporary moment, when critical issues mobilize those interested in the subject, in particular the creation of the SciELO Citation Index in Web of Knowledge platform. We analyze the listed issues through the prism of Marxist thought, particularly in the contemporary aspects of capital accumulation as the increasing privatization of common goods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]