Indexadores de periódicos acadêmicos eletrônicos como fontes de informação

Abstract

The indexers of electronic journals play a fundamental role in the dissemination of information by providing informational control and optimization of fast and efficient access in the retrieval of relevant contents. This research emphasizes this relevanceby gathering the most used indexers in Brazilian electronic publications in the areas of Archivology, Librarianship, Information Science and Museology. In the process of methodological construction, this investigation is exploratory, descriptive and qualitative.The locus of the research was delimited after verifying the existence of a large number of electronic periodical publications in various national and international institutions.Thus, the Brazilian universities that offer courses in the areas of Archivology, Librarianship, Museology and Information Science were chosen. 24 universities were surveyedand 28 journals in the referred areas were retrieved from the journal portal of each institution. Based on this collection, 41 national and international indexes in the area of Information Science were described. Thus, this research contributesfor the aforementioned areas, with emphasis on Librarianship in order to facilitate the dissemination of scientific knowledge and provide opportunities for journal editors to learn aboutthe main electronic indexes.It can be concluded that indexers confer quality and academic relevance and allow access, collaboration, measurement of information and visibility of the impact of relevance of publications.