Políticas editoriais e os direitos autorais na comunicação científica

Abstract

Research on editorial policies and author rights issues in scientific communication in Brazil and Western Europe (Portugal, Spain, France and United Kingdom), using the Sherpa/Romeo and Diadorim directories as sources. The general objective was to analyze editorial policies of Brazilian and foreign electronic scientific publishing houses, in relation to open access to scientific information considering the categories of access to scientific publications derived from contractual types, deposits, sharing possibilities and areas of knowledge, both public and commercial publishers. Exploratory research using the descriptive method for the formulation of theoretical contextualization, as well as the content analysis of the predominant publishing editorial policies and the areas of knowledge by editors in each country surveyed, having as a comparative parameter the configuration of the access policies existing in the two directories of scientific publishing policies. Data collection covered the period from August 2018 to March 2019 and raised the following issues: availability of preprint and postprint deposit, license and access types, and areas of expertise. The analysis pointed out similar results in some cases and peculiarities in others, depending on the geopolitics, history, culture and scientific and technological development of each country. In the analysis it was verified that the directory Diadorim presents a faceted organization that allows for more specific and more in depth analyzes. On the other hand, the Sherpa / Romeo directory brings together more information.