O Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

It presents a survey on access to scientific information on Federal University of Ceará (FUC). Its main purpose is to investigate whether the Institutional Repository (RI) from the FUC is both known and utilized by the academic community from the Librarianship course at FUC. Coupled with specific objectives as follows: verify if there is notoriety toward IR∕FUC; observe if the IR∕FUC is being used as a research source through statistical data; investigate whether there is a use of this repository through its use to research; probe opinions from the academic community in regard to the IR∕FUC. The Institutional Repository from the Federal University of Ceará is a system that manages its own scientific information. Its main purpose is to treat, organize, store and disseminate through digital collections as wellas intellectual and scientific productions from its own authors. They provide visibility for institutions, authors and academic community. Both bibliographic and exploratory methods were used in this project. The results show us most people surveyed know the benefits the IR∕FUC can offer them and are aware of its uncomplicated handling. We think the result was very satisfactory despite very little knowledge of this system.