Brazil¡¯s National Consortium?for?Open?Science?
In 2022, Brazil established a nationwide consortium whose objective is to encourage the practice of open science. The National Consortium for Open Science, CoNCienciA, is the result of a Technical Cooperation Agreement whose purpose is to formalize the interest of its member institutions in establishing bases of technical and operational cooperation aimed at promoting incentive activities for the practice of open science.
At the moment, the most common practice for ConCIenciA is the creation of open data repositories with governance supported by the assignment of DOIs to datasets deposited in open repositories. For this activity, the cost is €1,000 per year per institution per up to 10,000 DOIS issued.
The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) is financing, within the scope of CoNCienciA, the development of a National Open Science Observatory (OCABr) through the SciELO Program ¨C ScientificElectronic Library Online, an action that serves as one of the milestones of the 5th National Open Government Plan led by CNPq. The observatory aims to contribute to the enrichment of research evaluation systems, providing data and indicators of the state and advancement of the modus operandi of Open Science (OS) in Brazil. The observatory is created with the participation of the National Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict), the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO). The Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (Capes) is on the OCABr Advisory Board, together with Ibict, Embrapa, Fiocruz and SciELO.
Contributed by: Dileine Cunha, Coordinator for Information and International Studies, CNPq Brazil