Repositório de Instituições de Ensino Superior: composição de políticas para a sua criação

Abstract

This work analyzes operating policies and procedures adopted in institutional repositories of universities, in order to help the development of strategies and policies to subsidize the creation of an open access Institutional Repository at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Amazonas (IFAM). It proposes the general goal of creating policies for the Institutional Repository at IFAM in order to achieve gains in productivity and quality for the academic community served by the Institute. It has specific objectives: to search for policies framed in institutional repositories existing in public institutions of higher education and its operationalization as a basis for defining policy strategies to the needs of the IFAM repository and to establish a theoretical framework for institutional repositories, defining policy options for access and use that fit the multidisciplinary institutional repository to be developed in order to store, preserve, share, give visibility and manage their academic and scientific production in free access. The methodology was qualitative, the kind of research was addressed framed in descriptive and exploratory, which enabled the elements that characterize the political information were observed, recorded, analyzed, classified and interpreted without the interference of the researcher, in order to know more precisely the factors that may corroborate or substantiate to the composition of a repository for the IFAM. Data collection was carried out in stages, with the use of primary sources, and as a tool for collecting the questionnaire and through on-site observation to one of the repositories surveyed. Analysis and discussion of results present the policies and structure of the repositories surveyed. Afterwards the proposed guidelines are exposed for the composition repository at IFAM, strategies and deployment actions and policies of access and use. It is concluded that the implementation actions are not sufficient to ensure the settlement of the repository, it is recommended for the integration of all sectors and actors to share this responsibility throughout the organization. We suggest the creation of institutional information policy, to define organizational structures, process management and the ability to preserve the contents stored therein; a policy of submission, in order to establish guidelines for submission of items to the repository and parallel to instructions that create normative features of mandatory policy, to establish standards and operating procedures for the deposit of the work of completing courses, dissertations and theses at IFAM libraries. Policies are fundamental operation of the repository as an information service and recognition by the community, but, to fulfill these requirements, educational work and procedures are to be adopted and followed. With the results we propose strategic guidelines and policies to subsidize the creation of the open access Institutional Repository at IFAM.