Os repositórios digitais da produção técnico-cientifica dos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Brasil: uma análise da comunicação cientifica no ambiente virtual

Abstract

This research covers the area of Information Systems and focuses on the digital repositories of the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology (FIs) of Brazil as a virtual open access environment of for scientific communication and preservation of institutional memory. The research methodology was the case study, centered on the digital repositories (DR) of the Brazilian IFs, in the period between 2012 to 2017. In the process of data collection and analysis, a mixed approach -- quantitative and qualitative -- was adopted. The work was carried out in three stages. The first was the qualification and quantification of the FIs with DRs to the present days and delimited the scope of the research to DRs of the following IFs: Amazonas (IFAM); Goiás (IFG); Paraíba (IFPB); Piauí (IFPI); Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN) and Sergipe (IFS). The second stage collected and analyzed the data by direct verification in the DR sites according to predetermined parameters. The approach in the first two steps was essentially quantitative. ExcelTM and SimilarWeb were the software used in the collection, storage and analysis of data available in each DR of the institutions. The third step, the quantitative and qualitative analysis of DR, by SimilarWeb, occurred between February and April 2018, using Google's search engine. Although the number of DR is much lower than the number of FIs in the five regions of Brazil, it was possible to identify that the DR [of the FIs] behave as an environment for the preservation of technical-scientific production and institutional memory and showed their importance in scientific and academic endeavors, as it is where the data on the staff and students of the institution are stored and accounting for 99,08% in this environment, as defined by the Open Access Movement. The corollary in the execution of these steps was the development of “Gestor de Repositório Institucional” ̶ the strategic dashboard ̶ for the performance analysis of the FI repositories.