Acesso aberto à informação científica: uma análise dos repositórios institucionais dos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Brasil

Abstract

This research analyzes the strategies promoted by the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology of Brazil (IFs) regarding the adherence of the implementing process of their institutional repositories to the open access movement to scientific information. It investigates the concepts of scientific communication, open access to scientific information e digital repositories. It presents a national panorama of the deployment of Institutional Repositories (RIs). It analyzes the Institutional Repositories of the Federal Institutes that have been deployed from the perspective of the specialized literature. Based on data collected by a data collection tool applied via e-mail and messaging application to the 38 institutes of Brazil, it evaluates the general state of their open access digital repositories and analyzes how was their implementing processes. It surveys the presence of the repositories of the Federal Institutes in the webpages of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology, the Registry of Open Access Repositories directories, and the Directory of Open Access Repositories through their respective websites. It shows that from the 38 existing and consulted IFs, 32 had answered the survey and 16 have IRs deployed. It reveals that the first IR deployed in the Federal Institutes network was at the Federal Institute of Goias (IFG) in 2013, and most of the others, 11 out of 16, were implemented in the last years, between 2018 and 2020. It concludes that the deployment of the institutional repositories of Brazil is in an intermediate state and it follows the specialized literature and the guiding principles of the open access movement to the scientific information. It presents the final considerations, highlighting the main results and recommendations.