Grau de adesão à comunicação científica de base eletrônica: estudo de caso na área da genética

Abstract

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are changing the traditional scientific communication cycle and imposing meaningful transformations to the generation, production, circulation, dissemination, retrieval and use of information. They are influencing in different ways and levels the practices and results of the scientific activity, specially the intellectual outputs published in journal articles. This investigation analyses in what degree Brazilian researchers in genetics, working with genomics, have approved the new scientific communication standards introduced by ICTs. The results show these researchers have not yet approved the changes made by ICTs to the scientific communication cycle or, in other words, that during the period of this study electronic technologies did not altered significantly the formal processes of scientific communication in this area