Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais
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initial production. Another element that enabled the exponential growth of open<br />
resources was the stan<strong>da</strong>rdization of open licenses of copyrights and software, which<br />
unified the language and the understanding between the performers that made access<br />
to the works available.<br />
Open access<br />
As defined in the Bu<strong>da</strong>pest Initiative, by “open access” to scientific literature,<br />
one understands the free and public disposal in the Internet, so as to allow any user<br />
to read, download, copy, print, distribute, search or link the full content of articles,<br />
as well as the indexation or the use for any other legal purpose. In the understanding<br />
of the organizations supporting the open access, there shall not be financial, legal<br />
and technical barriers other than those necessary for Internet connection. The only<br />
constraint for reproduction and distribution shall be the author’s control on the<br />
integrity of their work, and the right to the due quotation.<br />
Open Access (OA) is part of this great revolution in the generation and distribution<br />
of knowledge enabled by the ICT expansion and has the potential of forming<br />
individuals, communities and institutions, contributing to the development and<br />
prosperity of the stan<strong>da</strong>rds proposed by the Information Society. In this sense, Open<br />
Access is an appropriate model for the transference of knowledge, once:<br />
“The basic scientific research supplies the greatest part of the scientific process<br />
of a nation — as well as of the world. The society uses the fruit of such research<br />
to expand the world's knowledge base and applies such knowledge in various<br />
manners, in order to create a new richness and improve the public well-being.<br />
However, few people comprehend how the scientific advances enabled the<br />
continuous improvements that are basic to everyone’s <strong>da</strong>ily life. An even lower<br />
number of people are aware of what is necessary to obtain advances in the science,<br />
or know that the scientific enterprise is taking an ever more international<br />
character. Freedom of investigation, total and open availability of scientific <strong>da</strong>ta<br />
in the international sphere and open publication of the results are the foun<strong>da</strong>tions<br />
of the basic research (...). When sharing and exchanging information with<br />
the international community, and when openly publishing the research results,<br />
all countries (…) benefit from that.” (ROSSINI, 2008)<br />
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