Last September, the 14th Lusophone Open Science Conference was held at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN – Natal, Brazil), in partnership with the Documentation and Library Services of the University of Minho (USDB), the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT).
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 growing maturity and breadth of the topics covered is increasingly evident, without neglecting the event's thematic history and the continuity of the Open Science purpose. The next edition of ConfOA will be held in 2024, in Porto. You can review this year's presentations at: https://confoa.rcaap.pt/2023/programa2023/
ConfOA 2023 in numbers
Over the four days of the conference, approximately 277 participants were present.
The event offered guests a program packed with activities and content:
- 49 posters
- 25 pechas kuchas
- 14 communications
- 3 workshops
- 3 demos
- 2 panels
- 2 international guests
