Repositório Institucional: um portal de acesso às produções intelectuais da comunidade científica do Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo

Abstract

This study aimed to build an intervention project, which dealt with the possibility of contribution of the Nilo Peçanha library of Ifes - Campus Vitória in the advertising of the Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo’s Institutional Repository (IR/Ifes) as a potential research tool for the students, teachers, staff and academic community of the Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (Ifes). The research was carried out in the library’s reference sector, as it is the place where consultations regarding the IR/Ifes, which enabled the understanding of the phenomenon. The motivation arose from my work as campus librarian, with the purpose of collaborating with our academic community as to the development of autonomous, conscientious and critical researchers with regard to sources of information. The research was permeated by the qualitative approach, with grounds in participant research, a round table and a questionnaire were used as data collection tools, which were analyzed using Bardin’s content analysis (2009), based on four categories, namely, perception, usage, training and advertising. The results of the data collected pointed out that, although there is advertisement and use of IR/Ifes, such procedures are modest, indicating that there is room for improvement, aiming to turn it into a more powerful tool for the research field and also to conduct and strengthen the organizational culture of the use of the tool in the institution, enhancing its diffusion. The research provided subsidies for the development of an intervention proposal for the advertising and instruction of use and subjection of Ifes’ Institutional Repository, which includes the development of a workshop, a brochure and an instructional video on self-archiving. It is believed that the production of this material meets the demand of organizational culture of use of the tool, as it will be available for use as a pedagogical resource for research methodology teachers and librarians when they run workshops on this topic, as well as serving as a guidance manual in the doubts raised in the selfarchiving by Ifes’ graduating students. Moreover, it can be glimpsed the potential of this tool as a contribution to the work of librarians in order to optimize the process of validation of self-archiving performed by students, aiming to minimize errors in filling out the metadata, thus resulting in more accurate searches by users.