Open Science, open issues

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This book brings contributions by researchers from differentareas and a wide range of countries, including Brazil, who have asignificant role and reflection in the field of open and collaborativescience.The topic of open science is gaining ground not only withininstitutional environments for science, technology and innovation,but also in other contexts that, until now, were kept apart fromthese activities. As a result, it is mobilising other social groupsas interlocutors of scientific practices. In turn, the resultingtransformations in the relations between science, technology andsociety integrate the new dynamics of production and circulationof knowledge as well as the new role played by these dynamics incontemporary processes of social participation and change.It is hoped that this publication will provide an overview oftopics and issues that both trace and permeate the topic of openscience nowadays from different perspectives and points of view.Above all, it is hoped that it might instigate further reflection andfoster new ways of producing and circulating knowledge. Thus,it is geared not only towards the academic world, but also to abroader range of social actors that concern themselves with thedemocratisation of knowledge and information.The book is inspired by the results of the discussions held duringthe International Seminar “Open Science, Open Questions” thattook place in Rio de Janeiro in 2014. The Seminar was organised by:the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology(IBICT), Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBr), the Federal Universityof the State of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio) and the InterdisciplinaryLaboratory for the Study of Information and Knowledge (Liinc).We would like to thank Ibict, Unirio, the Brazilian Center forResearch in Physics (CBPF), the National Research Network (RNP),the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development(CNPq), the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher EducationPersonnel (Capes) and the Carlos Chagas Foundation for ResearchSupport of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Faperj) for the material andfinancial support that made this event possible.