COMPLEXIDADE E (IN)VISIBILIDADE NA CIÊNCIA: UMA TEORIA SOBRE AS PRÁTICAS CIENTÍFICAS ABERTAS A PARTIR DO USO DOS CADERNOS DE LABORATÓRIO PELOS PESQUISADORES DO ILIKA/UFPE
complexity theory; open science; open laboratory notebooks; scientific data; Health Sciences
The challenge of practicing Open Science meets a collective, collaborative, social, shared and interdisciplinary science. These predicates characterize a contemporary science and imply the renewal of scientific practice. In order to better understand this phenomenon of transformation in the way of doing science, the investigations of this research were concentrated on the practices and thoughts of researchers in the Health Sciences in relation to the use of open laboratory notebooks, one of the axes studied by the great theme Open Science. To this end, the objective is to propose a theory about open scientific practices from the use of laboratory notebooks by researchers from the Keizo Asami Institute (iLIKA), relating it to Edgar Morin's Complex Thinking. To achieve this, the Grounded Theory (GT) was used as a methodological framework, under the constructivist approach of Kathy Charmaz. In view of this, the research has a qualitative focus and is classified in terms of means (procedures) as a case study, since it exhaustively investigated the phenomena and practices in a specific context. As for the ends, it is characterized as explanatory, since there was a concern to identify and explain which factors (and why) contribute to or determine the occurrence of certain practices and phenomena. A total of 13 researchers were interviewed and, based on their statements, 10 categories were identified through in vivo codes, namely: establishing partnerships, training human resources, advising on the use of laboratory notebooks, attributing importance to the use of laboratory notebooks, deprecating the use of laboratory notebooks, maintaining confidentiality, facing barriers, communicating science, using the data and opening the data. These categories express the phenomenon within the context studied, emerging a theory to the practices related to laboratory notebooks, the self-organization of the dichotomy between communication and secrecy in science. Therefore, there are challenges for a reform of thought that escapes the disjunction of knowledge and moves towards interactions and totality.