Revistas cientificas brasileiras e sua visibilidade no acesso aberto

ABSTRACT Presents the question about continuity and timeliness of scientific journals published. Highlights the importance of Brazilian scientific journals with open access users of the Open Journal Systems software. This study point out the use of Open Journal Systems in several associations, educational and research institutions Brazil, that is, with the evolution of software that enables hosting on the same server several scientific, artistic, philosophical and cultural periodicals in the environment named repository of magazines or more frequent in Brazil called journals Portal. Available documents it is part of a research post -doctoral stage , the documental research give the contextualization of the study and data be collected in May 2014 , are used in the Portal of Open Journal System - IBICT , the Union Catalog of Libraries EZB, the Diadorim, LATINDEX DOAJ sites. The results show OJS are expanded for publications born in digital form and also migrated from print to digital support being made available in open access. The portals and journals directories enable periodic reduce costs, recover the cultural memory, facilitate the maintenance and security of the operating system and amplify the visibility of journals hosted and open access trend is to increase access and use of the information published.