Guia de fontes da Universidade Federal do Ceará: análise de sua origem aos dias atuais

Abstract

The search for information is part of the lives of journalists and media professionals in general, as is the search for information about what is being produced by universities and expert teachers on certain subjects. Therefore, the objective of this work is to analyze the UFC Sources Guide as a source of information and its use in the process of identification, custody, preservation, organization, recovery, use and dissemination of scientific information in the UFC. Present some concepts and types of sources of general and specialized sources of information and their characteristics, in addition to addressing some examples of sources of information. To address also the difficulties that professionals of the local and national media have when they look for the information about teachers that can be used as source for journalistic matters, as well as of the teachers who wish that their contacts are divulged like way of spreading their researches. Approach its origin and evolution to the present day. The UFC Sources Guide will meet the advances of the new information technologies with the achievement of availability through the internet, without the printed version being discontinued, considering the importance of the printed format in the disclosure of the institution and as a marketing piece institutional, and it is up to the users to choose the route to be used. The methodology used for this research was an exploratory one, for seeking to improve ideas and describe the situation at the moment in which it is classifying itself and interpreting the facts. As for the type, a documentary and bibliographical research was done, with the observation, in loco, of the attendance carried out by the journalists of the communications and institutional marketing coordination of the UFC. The results of the research indicate that the guide may be more useful as a communication between the communication vehicles and the researchers of the university from its update and, especially, after the online version is made available.