摘要:Normal 0 21 The current international movements (the Open Archives Initiative/OAI and the Open Access Movement/AO) changed substantially the way to produce, measure, share, disseminate and manage the production conveyed by scientific journals, and consequently, the way the scientific community are produzing science. This study proposed, through the eyes of researchers from the Comunication Science to identify the main motivational factors to publish papers on and to retrieval information from scientific journals, both in printed and electronic media, whether open source or restricted, either in the regular site or in digital repositories. Thus, in accordance with the dimensions quoted in motivational theoretical basis, the following variables were defined for study: (1) factors of motivation to write / publish papers to scientific journals, (2) factors of difficulties to write / publish articles in scientific journals. Normal 0 21 Also, the participants perception about quality criterias of scientific journals and difficulty to read/consult scientific journals, are also studied.