Usuário da informação: análise da produção científica em periódicos brasileiros

Abstract

The topic of information users permeates several domains, areas, scientific and technological paths, since this phenomenon presents a diversity of definitions, theories and methods. In this context, the research carried out, which aims to map the scientific production on Information Users, published in the Librari- anship and Information Science journals, qualified as A1, A2 and B1 - Qualis / CAPES in the period of 2011 to 2016. From the methodological point of view, the research is based on the literature of the area, focusing on the concepts of information user. It is an exploratory and descriptive research, centered on a quantitative-qualita- tive approach, whose results indicated that in the interval studied, the periodicals published 99 articles that focus on subcategories of the theme ‘Information Users’, among them: information use, informational behavior, information needs, among others. It was concluded that, in quantitative terms, the production studied on information users is still incipient, but relevant and of good quality and presents a significant number of theoretical studies that reveal the state of the art and trends of the area, with productions resulting from national scientific research, experiments and events.