Publishing is undoubtedly one of the basic requirements of science. In the digital era publishing has become increasingly easy, inexpensive and accessible. In this sense, the paper has two main objectives. The first is to describe and evaluate the Portuguese publication in the field of Communication Sciences with regard to factors such as the amount of material available online; the nature of these materials (digital or shovelware) and accessibility (open access). Based on this description and evaluation of the Portuguese case, the second objective of the text is to make some reflections on the issue of internationalization of the publication in Portuguese language and the way to counter the hegemony of English as the lingua franca of science.
Publication; Digitization; Open Access; Communication Sciences; Portugal