Uso de periódicos científicos pelos mestrandos do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências das Religiões da UFPB

Abstract

This research investigates the use of scientific journals in the of the Graduate Program in Religions Science at the Federal University of Paraíba (PPGCR/UFPB). It is a bibliographic researches nature, documentary and descriptive, basing on the qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches. Its research subjects the master’s students of the PPGCR UFPB. Used as an instrument of data collection the questionnaire composed of open and closed questions. Twenty six master’s students of the universe surveyed a sample of 20 (76%). As a result, notes that the research group is mostly female aged between 26 and 40 years, holding the legal profession, psychologists, and philosophers, among others. The use of journals by master’s degree by the need to keep up, then the academic requirements, however, occasionally the paper being consulted over the Religare which is a scientific journal edited by PPGCR. Concludes that the use of scientific journals by master’s students still happens so tiny, which is due in part to the lack of scientific journals in the area who attend the master’s student’s, as well as barriers: lack of access to journals platform, difficulty reading articles on computer, textual quality, in the case of journals in difficulty in electronic format, among other barriers.