The 14th Lusophone Open Science Conference (ConfOA) will travel to Natal, Brazil in 2023. This year, ConfOA is hosted by Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte on September 18, 19, 20 and 21, 2023.
Keeping with the theme of the previous edition “Open Science: Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability”, the 14th ConfOA aims to be the forum where Open Science is thought and discussed in Portuguese.
ConfOA aims to bring together communities from Portuguese-speaking countries engaged in research, development, service management, and policymaking related to Open Science in all its aspects, particularly Open Access to Scientific Information and Research Data. ConfOA thus represents a unique forum for promoting the sharing, discussion, and dissemination of knowledge, practices, and research on these topics, in all their dimensions and perspectives.
In order to promote its widespread use within the community, ConfOA adopts good Open Science practices, namely: open peer review; the requirement for the availability of research data used in the work, which must be submitted in parallel with the proposal; the use of persistent author identifiers and the assignment of persistent identifiers to accepted and published works.
The organization invites the community to submit work proposals on the following topics:
Open Access and Open Research Data: systems, policies and practices
- Digital repositories – institutional, thematic, research data or cultural heritage
- Open Access Scientific Journals
- Innovation in scientific communication for Open Science
- Institutional Open Access Publication
- Research Data Management and FAIR data
- Definition, analysis and evaluation of institutional and funding policies
- Metadata models and standards
- Digital Preservation
- Copyright, Open Access and Open Science
Open Science and other expressions of open knowledge
- Ethics, Research Integrity and RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation)
- Evaluating research and researchers in the transition to Open Science
- Citizen Science
- Open government data
- Free software development and communities to promote Open Access and Open Science
- Other open knowledge practices (free hardware and software, open education)
Science and Technology Information Management
- CRIS – Science and Technology Information Management Systems
- Interoperability between information systems supporting scientific and academic activities
- Standards and guidelines
- Persistent identifiers
Proposals on these topics, as well as other topics related to the political, social, organizational or technical aspects of Open Science, will be welcome.
Submission of papers is carried out at: http://conferencias.rcaap.pt/ where the evaluation of the works will be carried out. Proponents may consult the guidelines for each type of proposal and respective presentation model.
