El acceso abierto a la información: a propósito de los recursos de información de acceso abierto en el área de comunicación

Abstract

The objective of this work was to analyze the open access news resources available to fourth-semester students of the Communication career at the Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí in the period October 2021-February 2022. In this way, from a methodological approach based on a mixed qualitative-quantitative, descriptive approach and from a bibliographic-documentary approach investigates open access to information in the areas of communication; In addition, the policies that open access requires for the use of information in terms of academic activities in higher education are addressed. The technique that was used to collect the information was the survey, an instrument that was applied to the students in question. In this context, open access to information has been one of the most important issues in the academic development of students, since this becomes a fundamental tool at an academic and professional level, being a primary source of information that is verified and which is also of common benefit to the students and the authors of these documents. In this way, it is intended to elaborate a diagnosis on the use made by Communication students of open access resources in the study center in question. For this, it has been considered that, with open access to information, education seeks to democratize this educational content and proposes that the ways in which it is produced and distributed generate knowledge.