Open Access and Scientific Knowledge: Between the Public Interest and the Business Model. A Literature Review

Open Access and Scientific Knowledge: Between the Public Interest and the Business Model. A Literature Review

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...

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Autori principali: Quintanilha, Tiago Lima, Trishchenko, Nataliia
Natura: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lingua:Anglais
Pubblicazione: Comunicação e sociedade 2022
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acesso aberto
conhecimento científico
interesse público
modelo de negócio
open access
scientific knowledge
public interest
business model
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topic acesso aberto
conhecimento científico
interesse público
modelo de negócio
open access
scientific knowledge
public interest
business model
spellingShingle acesso aberto
conhecimento científico
interesse público
modelo de negócio
open access
scientific knowledge
public interest
business model
Quintanilha, Tiago Lima
Trishchenko, Nataliia
Open Access and Scientific Knowledge: Between the Public Interest and the Business Model. A Literature Review
description 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.
author Quintanilha, Tiago Lima
Trishchenko, Nataliia
author_facet Quintanilha, Tiago Lima
Trishchenko, Nataliia
author_sort Quintanilha, Tiago Lima
title Open Access and Scientific Knowledge: Between the Public Interest and the Business Model. A Literature Review
title_short Open Access and Scientific Knowledge: Between the Public Interest and the Business Model. A Literature Review
title_full Open Access and Scientific Knowledge: Between the Public Interest and the Business Model. A Literature Review
title_fullStr Open Access and Scientific Knowledge: Between the Public Interest and the Business Model. A Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Open Access and Scientific Knowledge: Between the Public Interest and the Business Model. A Literature Review
title_sort open access and scientific knowledge: between the public interest and the business model. a literature review
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:cs_5428 en https://journals.openedition.org/cs/5428 2022-04-13T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/eypm https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Open Access and Scientific Knowledge: Between the Public Interest and the Business Model. A Literature Review Comunicação e sociedade Centro de estudos de comunicação e sociedade info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2183-3575 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1645-2089 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cs Quintanilha, Tiago Lima Trishchenko, Nataliia acesso aberto conhecimento científico interesse público modelo de negócio open access scientific knowledge public interest business model 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. A discussão sobre aquilo que o acesso aberto pode dar à ciência polarizou-se nos últimos anos. Se, por um lado, a primeira década do novo milénio nos trouxe um entusiasmo que poderemos considerar como bastante abrangente na comunidade científica, relativamente às grandes potencialidades de abertura do conhecimento, da sua comunicação e partilha, e dos mecanismos de participação cidadã no processo científico, os últimos anos trouxeram-nos um novo debate que aborda a derivação do acesso aberto para um novo modelo de negócio. Ao sustentarmos o presente artigo numa extensa revisão da literatura de um tema que é, ainda hoje, residual nos estudos que intersectam as áreas da comunicação de ciência e da economia da ciência, propusemo-nos sintetizar as principais razões evocadas de um lado e do outro. Entre os pontos positivos destacados na relação entre acesso aberto e conhecimento científico, destacam-se o potencial difusor do acesso aberto na disseminação de conhecimento, o aumento da visibilidade desse conhecimento produzido, o envolvimento da sociedade e dos profissionais no processo científico, através de lógicas de participação cívica e interpares, a maior eficiência e interação com benefícios para os próprios projetos de investigação, a retenção dos direitos de publicação pelos autores, a redistribuição de recursos, e a maior transparência de um modelo de natureza mais escrutinadora. Entre os pontos negativos, destaca-se essencialmente a incapacidade de combater uma espécie de economia da ciência paralela que tira proveito do acesso aberto e das lógicas de sofreguidão da produção académica para instituir as designadas article processing charges, pouco transparentes e com valores e taxas de publicação muitas vezes superiores aos vários milhares de euros, que atentam contra os princípios da ciência aberta e que são geradoras de desigualdades de oportunidades dentro da própria comunidade científica.

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