Open scientific data: identifying the role of management policies and development agencies

Abstract

The transformations of scientific practices point out that science lives a moment of attention to collaborative work and the sharing of research data, in order to accelerate the construction of new knowledge and increase the efficiency of investments. International and Brazilian development agencies have already initiated recommendations and requirements for funded projects to include a research data management plan for open access sharing. In the short or medium term, each university or research center will need to be prepared to meet the requirements of funding agencies. Thus, this research has the main objective of developing a mapping of the main institutional policies of national and international development agencies in the promotion of open access to the data of scientific research developed in Brazil. The initial review of the literature contemplates the themes of scientific communication and the open access movement, as well as concepts about open scientific data and a brief contextualization of the promotion of scientific research in Brazil. Regarding the methodological procedures outlined, the research is considered social applied in what refers to its purpose. Regarding the central objective, it will have an exploratory and descriptive characteristic and, in relation to the technical procedures to obtain the data, a bibliographical-documentary research will be carried out. The collection and processing of the data to identify the development agencies that will be part of the documentary research began in April of this year. The data were obtained based on the list of Research Productivity Scholarships of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development in July 2017 and through the extraction of information on the financing of their projects, which are based on the academic curriculum of the Plataforma Lattes. The research is in the phase of submission to the qualification examination.