Edson OliveiraJr
ABSTRACT
Open Science can be seen as a movement that has been spread out by the scientific community of all areas. In this movement, practices that seek to facilitate the sharing of research artifacts are considered. Possible artifacts include articles, data, scripts, and processes. In this paper, we present and discuss the results of a survey on open science carried out in the context of the State University of Maringá (UEM) in Brazil. Such a survey is aimed at investigating the degree of knowledge about open science from lecturers who supervise Master’s degree students and PhD candidates. The university has currently 54 graduate programs, distributed in different centers, encompassing almost 900 lecturers. We collected data using a web questionnaire with 22 questions. In total, 90 lecturers answered our survey. Results show that a significant subset of respondents never heard about open science, whereas the complementary subset barely dealt with the open science principles, tools or license types. We then provide in this paper a set of assumptions on several open science-related subjects. In addition, this paper might be used to guide any other university to measure the degree level of open science knowledge and to provide a plan to inspire the institutionalization of such an extremely relevant scientific topic.
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- Surveying the Open Science Knowledge in a Southern Brazilian University
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