Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais

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