Open Access to Knowledge Policy: Analysis of experience of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation / Fiocruz

Abstract

This article reports the experience of the construction and implementation of Open Access policy to the knowledge of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, established with mandatory character to encourage the public and free access to knowledge it produces, preserve institutional memory, providing visibility and disseminate the intellectual output establish registration guidelines for publication and support the planning and management of research. To achieve it, we use the Institutional Repository Ark, which are filed at first scientific papers, dissertations and theses. The paper presents a context of the movement for open access to scientific literature, emphasizing the origin, dissemination strategies, major national and inter initiatives - national, especially in the health field. Then describes the collective process of formulation and validation of this policy in the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation from the group's work which began the research, study and learning on the subject, the public consultation to which the policy was submitted, the creation of decision-makers and governance until its approval in February this year by the Executive Council of the institution. It concludes that democratization and universal access to scientific knowledge is a prerequisite for equitable and sustainable development of nations.