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DROESCHER, Fernanda Dias  e  SILVA, Edna Lúcia da. Open Access and the use of scientific information. Investig. bibl [online]. 2015, vol.29, n.65, pp.161-194. ISSN 2448-8321.

This research examines criteria for evaluating the impact of publications in open access and the influence of this philosophy in enhancing the impact in scientific publications. The research corpus consisted of documents listed in the Open Access Citation Advantage annotated bibliography. Several conclusions can be drawn from results: a) The adoption or acceptance of open access publications becomes a phenomenon associated with the scientific culture of each discipline; b) The scientific culture and the characteristics of the discipline also determine how citations are made: in this case it is the degree of knowledge obsolescence in each subject driving this process; c) Citations are more closely linked to the quality of the content of the publication rather than to degree of accessibility; and d) The alleged visibility of open access publications, at least with regard to the corpus of this research, cannot be strongly linked to the increased impact of publications.

Palavras-chave : Scientific communication; Open Access; Open Archives; Open Access Citation Advantage.