The mapping and analysis of end user perceptions and impacts of open access to the scientific literature

• Grant number: 12/02219-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2012
• End date: April 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Information Science
• Principal Investigator: Ariadne Chloe Mary Furnival
• Grantee: Nelson Sebastian Silva Jerez
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project aims to examine how the increasing circulation of scientific information in open access channels impacts certain groups of the public, and small, and medium enterprises beyond the confines of the academic community. In so doing, it will be necessary to explore how members of the public and participants from SMEs seek and use - if they do so - scientific information resulting from research, and published in open access. It is hoped that the results may contribute toward institutional policymaking regarding the dissemination and mediation of scientific information to the wider community.(AU)