Approaches, strategies and tools for open access through journals and institutionalrepositories in Brazilian academic institutions
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https://doi.org/10.18617/liinc.v4i2.281Keywords:
Open access to scientific literature, Open access to scientific knowledge, Scientific and scholarly electronic journals, Institutional repositories, Disciplinary differences, Scholarly communication models, Scientific knowledge managementAbstract
This essay aims at briefly discussing the open access movement today, trying to identify the difference between open access to scientific literature and open access to scientific knowledge. Open access to scientific literature is related to the scholarly communication process approach, while open access to scientific knowledge concerns the knowledge management approach. Both the literature and personal experience are used as the basis for discussion, attempting to identify and report strategies and tools that have been used in different countries and in Brazil itself. The discussion is based on three fundamental issues for the study and practices with open access journals and repositories, which are disciplinary differences, the scholarly communication system and knowledge management models. The assumptions behind the discussion are that disciplinary differences should guide both decisions and actions related to creating and maintaining journals and repositories. Journals are to be approached as effective communication channels while repositories are to be considered as efficient knowledge management tools.
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