Encontrabilidade da informação em repositórios institucionais: uma proposta de instrumento de avaliação

Abstract

The findability of information is an element which is situated between the informational environment features analog, digital, or hybrid and the characteristics of the informational subjects. Taking into account the advancement of information and communication technologies that boosted the visibility of the scientific community, giving prominence to Institutional Repositories, bringing together all the technical and scientific production of the University community (Faculty, administrative technicians and graduate students) of the competent institution, in order to store, preserve and make available full texts of free access. The present work aims to demonstrate the attributes of the findability of information in the institutional repository of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. From a literature search and descriptive, with a qualitative approach, where we used the technique of individual observation, a brief analysis of these attributes in the informational environment in question, making it possible to draw up a checklist to be applied in the environment chosen for the analysis we noticed he meets most of the informational needs of its users, but still needs improvements to support findability of complete information for your users