Dinâmica do uso de repositórios digitais: em foco as Bibliotecas Central e Setorial do Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza da Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Abstract

In the last decade, institutional repositories have emerged as important tools in helping the dissemination of scientific communication, so that universities all over Brazil adopt repositories as a way of disseminating their production. The adoption and use of all the functionalities that make up a repository results in a series of benefits for the institution. However, in order for a repository to fulfill its purposes, it is necessary for the community, under which it is inserted, to know and use the services Offered by it. Thus, this work presents the results of a research carried out with the users of the Central Library and the CCEN Sector Library. . Its main objective was to investigate the behavior of the users in relation to the knowledge they have about the BDTD and REI repositories. The research was carried out using the quantitative-qualitative approaches and the data collection was done through the application of a questionnaire. The results of the field research were exposed and consolidated through graphs, comments and analyzes. The data show that the users of both libraries present similar characteristics, with respect to the practices of use of information sources. Despite the massive use of digital sources to search for information, the users of these libraries do not know the existent repositories in the UFPB, nor does use them to search for information. The BDTD presents a higher index of knowledge and use in relation to the REI, however both results are considered lower than the expected. We suppose that the cause for this result is the fact that UFPB does not have an institutional repository, but Individual initiatives, as well as the lack of dissemination of these tools by the competent bodies within the institution.