As percepções e práticas de publicação em acesso aberto dos pesquisadores de dois programas de pós-graduação em engenharia

Abstract: The article presents the results and discussion of a study that aimed to identify the practices and perceptions of researchers concerning making their publications available in open access, as compared to publishing in subscription, paywalled journals. The study subjects were researchers accredited in two postgraduate Engineering programs that have obtained the maximum evaluation by CAPES. A mixed methodological approach was used. Quantitative publication data for the period 2008 to 2016 were collected and tabulated from the researchers´ Lattes curricula using the ScriptLattes and VantagePoint software respectively. The 244 periodicals and 970 published articles identified in this phase were then researched in other platforms such as SciELO, DOAJ, SHERPA/ ROMEO, Google Scholar and in the postgraduate programs´ Institutional Repository itself to verify the proportion of published articles available in open access. Concomitantly, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 researchers of the two postgraduate programs to identify their perceptions regarding publication in general and specifically, in open access and self-archiving in open repositories. From the quantitative data collected, it was found that only 21.9% of the articles published in the first postgraduate program and 29.8% of the second are available in open access. However, in the interviews, most authors support open access while at the same time demonstrating little knowledge of open access repositories, including that of their own institution. They are also unaware of the complementary possibility of first publishing in high-impact journals, and subsequently depositing the same article in the open access repository on the completion of an eventual publisher embargo period.