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This presentation discuss some results of the project “Open Access (OA) and Academic Assessment. Researchers who serve in academic assessment committees" knowledge and opinions regarding open access publishing in Argentina, Brazil and México”.

This paper presents results of study on the characteristics of search activities, access to and use of information, and communication habits of researchers from scientific research institutes. From the methodological point of view, it is a mixed methods study which adopted the concurrent triangulation strategy. Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews and checklist, and then submitted to statistical and text analysis. The research sphere was consisted of researchers linked to the research units of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and the sample basis were the researchers of the Brazilian Centre for Physics Research (CBPF) and Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences (MAST). Among other aspects, the findings shows that the safeguarded their disciplinary differences, search, access and communication activities, regardless of the knowledge area, occurring mainly in the digital environment; communication habits are stimulated by motives common to scientists and social scientists and humanists, share knowledge and visibility are the main reasons for the dissemination of research results, physicists are naturally within the open access context.

It can be considered that open access to scholarly information in Brazil had its genesis marked by SciELO initiative in 1997 and the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) in 2002. Although they have developed under the technological conditions and policies prevailing at the time, somehow, today, you can understand that both efforts represent the two main movement enabling strategies: the publication of open access journals (golden road) and the second the archiving of scholarly literature in digital repositories (green road). Since then, both the first and the second strategy developed substantially in the country and print systemic and operational specifics of the open access movement in Brazil. One of these peculiarities concerning the proliferation of institutional repositories (IR) to manage the national scientific production in coexistence with numerous digital library of theses and dissertations (ETD), which are part of BDTD. In principle, such a situation would not mean any problem if not for the fact that the ETD for many reasons, constitute one of the first and main types of IR content. This communication aims to reflect and discuss situations arising from the emergency and coexistence of RI and ETD Brazil

Presentation on the Brazilian Network of Open Access to Scientific Information (RICAA)

Over the past dseven years some key institutions inBrazil have developed a number of initiatives with the aim of implementing open access in the country. In the leadership of such work, the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) along with the University of Brasilia (UnB) have carried out projects and implemented actions both concerning both the green and the gold road. The gold road is a real success in the country, thanks to the work developed by Bireme, with the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and by Ibict along with cents of iuniversities and other academic institutions, with the Open Journal Systems (OJS). As regard the green road, Ibicxt has lead the initiatives with federal universities, and this work has been performed with the partnership of the University of Brasilia, the leading institution on the university institutional repositories context. So far, there are more than 800 scholarly electronic journals created under OJS, and more than 30 university institutional repositories well implemented

The paper presents the technical expertise of Embrapa Information Technology (CNPTIA), research institution in information technology for agriculture in the context of free software for implementing digital repositories and service providers. More specifically, the studies will be reported and open source solutions chosen to enable the insertion of Embrapa in alternative Open Access model, which aims to promote free and unfettered access to scientific production by researchers and institutions, and has the deployment of digital repositories, institutional or subject, one of its main strategies.

Access to information contributes to improve the learning potential of individuals through the development of their capacities to change its condition and environment. On this assumption, the link between the spread of information and social innovation is shown. The aim of this work is to discuss the relationship between the dissemination of science and technology information, played by Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) institutes, and the social innovation, based on the mixed model of scientific and technological development

This work presents the experience of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), a large state-owned company that figures out as an important global player in tropical agriculture Research, Development and Innovation (R&D&I), through the planning and implementation of open access to scientific information initiatives in the context of a developing country. The aim of the initiative is to provide the necessary mechanisms to capture, store, organize, preserve and widely disseminate the scientific information produced by Embrapa and by the scientific community involved in agricultural research. The model was based on open access rules, based on the contextual and systemic analysis of institutional environment, and describes the actions and strategies conducted toward the consolidation of the green and the golden road to open access. Report concludes with the obstacles faced and facility aspects, both associated to the cultural and political, organizational matters.

This work describes the ongoing transformations in both the scientific communication process and the scientific information management as well as presents a methodological model for the implementation and development of the Open Access at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa). The aim is to provide the necessary mechanisms to capture, store, organize, preserve and widely disseminate the scientific knowledge produced by Embrapa, SNPA, and by the scientific community involved in agricultural research, through the implementation of the Open Access strategies. It is our contention that effective information management improves institutional scientific communication, which contributes for the betterment of scientific research related processes.

This paper describes the bases of digital repositories, its function within the scientific communication and the role of E-LIS in the organization, dissemination and international access to Brazilian scientific publications in Library and Information Science.

Building open access institutional repositories (presentation). Provide an conceptual basis and practical training to the participants to building and maintain their institutional repositories (XV National Seminar on University Libraries, São Paulo, Brazil).

This paper presents a methodological model for the establishment of Open Access to scientific information at Embrapa, as a strategy for scientific information and knowledge management. The model consists of elements that speed up scientific communication processes and allow for the research output management. The aim is to provide the necessary mechanisms to capture, store, organize, preserve and widely disseminate the scientific knowledge produced by Embrapa and by the scientific community involved in agricultural research, through the implementation of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). It is our contention that effective information management improves institutional scientific communication, which contributes for the betterment of scientific research related processes.

This overview of key Open Access (OA) strategies in Brazil over the last three years describes the guidelines, tools and methodologies needed for Brazil to become an effective actor in the worldwide open access movement. We review general trends and awareness of OA, as well as ongoing developments and policies, opportunities and challenges, both national and international. The institutionalization of Brazilian scientific research is described, along with advances in open access journals and repositories, as well as institutional and governmental policies and the problems that have slowed their progress. Among the major actions targeted recently are plans and actions specific to Portuguese-speaking countries, as well as international collaboration. We conclude with challenges and opportunities ahead

From theoretical reflections, the institutional repositories are discussed under the prism of the scientific knowledge management, both the point of view of knowledge conversion model (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1997) and the basic processes of knowledge management. One suggests that the institutional repositories appear both as alternative to speed up the scientific communication processes and the scientific knowledge management.

Open Access digital institutional repositories have motivated a strong debate on electronic publishing in specialized literature. More focused on questions related to the so called Open Access Movement of the Scientific Information, they have raised discussions both in the context of the academy and the government and the industry (this related to the scientific publication work). It is subject, therefore, of constant concern of all the scientific community actors, to name scientific authors (researchers), publishers, scientific societies, funding agencies, libraries and access and service providers. The text deals with university institutional repositories focusing some of the main questions that guide the discussions of the subject. It emphasizes the impact of research aspects and motivation that certainly is part of their dissemination on the Web, and it reflects a scientific community reaction to the business model of the scientific publishing companies.