Periódicos de acesso aberto: um canal de disseminação dos pesquisadores bolsistas PQ1A do CNPq?

Abstract

Scientific communication aims to disseminate the findings among researchers. Initially this process was carried out by books. In the seventeenth century it was made by periodicals, which, over the following centuries, became the main vehicle for the dissemination of scientific knowledge. In the twentieth century, with the new information and communication technologies, online journals appeared. Online journals were restricted access and later new titles were created following the Open Access model. Considering these transformations, the present study seeks to answer the following question: have open access journals been a channel for disseminating the research results of the PQ1A researcher? To answer this question will be analyzed the adhesion of 1,205 PQ1A scholarship holders, who were enrolled in CNPq in 2016 database as authors in open access journals. This study, which makes use of the primary data contained in the curriculum of the Lattes Platform, has retrieved, with the aid of the ScriptLattes tool, data on the profile and the scientific production of these researchers. For the analysis of the profile and production of the researchers the period 2000-2015 was considered. As a theoretical contribution, Pierre Bourdieu's approaches to scientific field, scientific capital and habitus were used, which were used to discuss the value attributed to publications in open access journals and the researchers' real adherence to them. Among the set of results, it is noteworthy that, in the period, 25.6% of the articles published by PQ1A scholarship researchers are in open access journals. From this fraction, it was found that 16.3% of articles in open access journals were published in periodicals that charge fees for submission and / or publication. The fraction of articles in open access journals of a researcher in relation to the total of articles (the adherence rate) shows that the majority of the scholarship researchers were classified with very low adherence, (0 to 20%). The results of this study allow to have a better understanding of the context of the availability of research in open access journals, from a select group of the Brazilian scientific community, the PQ1A scholarship researchers, and, thus, contribute to the debate about the use of this medium of dissemination for a greater democratization of scientific knowledge.