Invisibility of Clinical Research in Brazil: Considerations on sources of information in Science & Technology

Abstract

It presents the expansion of clinical research activities in Brazil through recent public funding. It correlates this phenomenon with the growth of scientific information produced about it, as well as the demand for access to this public information. It portrays the invisibility of information as an obstacle to understanding the current development of clinical research in the country. It explores records of sources of information in science and technology on clinical research activities in order to evidence the current invisibilities in this environment. It points out, as one of the great factors for invisibility, the absence of an information policy that conditions an institutional culture to ostensibly inform the related activities. Consider the ostensible character in addition to the results generated in the surveys, I understand that the process of building these results is also an information of fundamental publicity and access.