{"id":5045,"date":"2022-06-09T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2022-06-09T16:25:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T19:25:54","slug":"open-science-in-the-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.scielo.org\/en\/2022\/06\/09\/open-science-in-the-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Science in the Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Luiz Augusto Campos e Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The scientific world has been undergoing a silent revolution. After centuries based on standards centered on the secrecy of laboratories and the anonymity of scientific assessment, several disciplines are gradually migrating to what we call the Open Science Program (OSP). This involves a series of transparency policies that range from the availability of data used in research to the opening of reviews in the article evaluation process.<\/p>\n

However, little is known about the impact of these transformations in the different areas of the Humanities, which bring together from fields such as Philosophy and History to Social and Human Sciences, such as Sociology and Psychology, going through the areas of Applied Social Sciences, such as Administration, and Education. It was with the aim of monitoring this process and its main challenges that the SciELO Program held the event Open Science in the Humanities<\/a> (site available only in Portuguese) between the 17th<\/sup> and the 18th<\/sup> of May. In total, there were six panels with more than two dozen editors and experts discussing the consequences of the OSP for the area, its potentials, and limits.<\/p>\n

The first panel was dedicated to the challenges of OSP in the Humanities. The director of the SciELO program, Abel Packer<\/a>, and the deputy director of the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasileira de Editores Cient\u00edficos<\/em>, ABEC), Lia Machado Fialho<\/a>, presented data on the adherence of the Platform’s journals to open science practices. Despite slow, the incorporation of these practices in the collection is not far from what happens in other areas. Furthermore, there is a whole plurality and creativity in this process, encouraged by the participants of the panel. Finally, Professor Fernanda Beigel (University of Cuyo) highlighted the importance of considering regional and international inequalities in this process of spreading the OSP through the Humanities.<\/p>\n

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