Open Science, open issues
Résumé
This book brings contributions by researchers from different
areas and a wide range of countries, including Brazil, who have a
significant role and reflection in the field of open and collaborative
science.
The topic of open science is gaining ground not only within
institutional environments for science, technology and innovation,
but also in other contexts that, until now, were kept apart from
these activities. As a result, it is mobilising other social groups
as interlocutors of scientific practices. In turn, the resulting
transformations in the relations between science, technology and
society integrate the new dynamics of production and circulation
of knowledge as well as the new role played by these dynamics in
contemporary processes of social participation and change.
It is hoped that this publication will provide an overview of
topics and issues that both trace and permeate the topic of open
science nowadays from different perspectives and points of view.
Above all, it is hoped that it might instigate further reflection and
foster new ways of producing and circulating knowledge. Thus,
it is geared not only towards the academic world, but also to a
broader range of social actors that concern themselves with the
democratisation of knowledge and information.
The book is inspired by the results of the discussions held during
the International Seminar “Open Science, Open Questions” that
took place in Rio de Janeiro in 2014. The Seminar was organised by:
the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology
(IBICT), Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBr), the Federal University
of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio) and the Interdisciplinary
Laboratory for the Study of Information and Knowledge (Liinc).
We would like to thank Ibict, Unirio, the Brazilian Center for
Research in Physics (CBPF), the National Research Network (RNP),
the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
(CNPq), the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education
Personnel (Capes) and the Carlos Chagas Foundation for Research
Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Faperj) for the material and
financial support that made this event possible.