Ciência aberta e acesso aberto para o Sul: perspectivas críticas e desafios

Abstract

Over the years of development of movements for open access and open science there is also no lack of critical voices that warn of new forms of privatization of knowledge, colonialism, Eurocentrism and exclusion, linked to these movements of opening, although there are certainly successful initiatives that democratize participation in production and access to knowledge. From these critical perspectives, some questions emerge: Is it enough for knowledge to be openly available? Is the unrestricted openness of data and information necessarily good for everyone? Openness offers everyone the ability and opportunity to participate in science world? What interests defend open access and open science policies? What knowledge is forming part of the construction of open science? Therefore, this chapter aims to analyze and comment on some of these critical positions, identifying authors, research groups and institutions that use them, in order to dialogue with their arguments. Thus, it is intended to contribute to the critical literature that seeks to encourage more effective transformations in the way of building and disseminating knowledge.