A eficácia dos modelos de recuperação de informações: um estudo particularizado na comunicação científica na Web

Abstract

It aims to analyze the effectiveness of resources of information retrieval in websites of journals classified as Qualis A1 and A2 in the area of Social Sciences, on which researchers in the field of Information Science usually published their articles. The analysis is concerning their recovery models (RM) and its information retrieval systems (IRS). The study, characterized as descriptive and quantitative, relies on a review of literature on the terms accessibility, usability, information retrieval and, information & data retrieval models, followed by empirical study on the Web pages of these journals. As main results, the survey findings reveal that there are flaws in IRS of analyzed journals, concerning to: a) the existence of descriptive metadata in the database but are not available to the user as search results, and b) of not offering search and recovery features through registered metadata on the bases. It also analyzed issues as the reason for the registration of such metadata as well as the effectiveness of SRI. Solutions are presented in order to maximize the potential of information retrieval leading to the full use of descriptive metadata, both for search and retrieval as for submission of records to scientific information users.