Open Science Practices of the Brazilian academic community: A study based on scientific production

Open Science represents a new approach to scientific work, resulting from the fast development of interactive and collaborative modes of knowledge acquisition, production, and dissemination facilitated by information technologies. The term is used as an "umbrella" encompassing a set of initiatives, including Open Access and Open Data. This paper, with a scientometric approach, uses the Brazilian scientific production of articles published in journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the 2015-2018 period, to investigate the practices of the Brazilian academic community related to Open Access and Open Data. A stable growth of Open Access articles, representing more than a third of the Brazilian scientific production in the Web of Science, is observed during that period. Publication in Open Access international mega journals is a prominent practice, particularly, in the Agriculture and Science & Technologies research communities, as well as the deposit in repositories of previously published articles in Open Access journals. Practices related to Open Data still seem incipient; the results suggest that the deposit/use of Open Data repositories predominates in the areas of Science & Technology, Parasitology and Genetics & Heredity.