Repositórios institucionais e bibliotecas digitais de teses e dissertações das Universidades Federais Brasileiras: políticas e documentos.

Abstract

Institutional repositories are characterized as digital databases of scientific information, aimed at managing the dissemination of information produced in institutions. In this context and the need to create policies, the objective of the research is the survey of information policies and explicit documents in institutional repositories and Digital Libraries of Theses and Dissertations in the national scope, more specifically in the Brazilian Federal Universities. The research has a quantitative approach and for the collection of data 65 Brazilian Federal Universities were searched, distributed among the five regions of the country, being verified if they have Institutional Repositories with policies or documents in their sites. Among the results obtained: 52 (80%) have Repositories; 8 (12%) Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and 5 (8%) do not have one type. The Southeast region (15) (which has the largest number of repositories, the South has 13, the Northeast Region has 11 (21%), the North has 7 (13%) and the Central-West Region (S & P), with 6 (12%). Institutional repositories registered with the Brazilian Institute of Science and Technology with policies and documents were located 25 in total, distributed among Brazilian regions: Southeast: 8, Northeast: 7, South: 6, North: 2 and Northeast 2. The Digital Libraries of Theses and Dissertations that have policies and documents: Northeast with 3 and North with only 1. Among the results, it is considered that the policies and documents are not yet a present reality in all the researched institutions.