The growth and development institucional repositories in Brazil

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https://doi.org/10.36311/1981-1640.2015.v9n1.10.p168

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Institutional repository, Brazil, software, Type of languages, No. of records.

Abstract

This paper discusses number of institutional repositories, software used, what are the content available in IR, which language mostly used in Brazil. Currently the intellectual output of the educators and the organization plays an essential role in the education knowledge process of a Higher Educational Institution. Articles; Theses; Unpublished; Books; Datasets etc are scattered in many places of an institution in print and electronic form. Therefore it is essential to collect, classify, arrange and store these materials digitally in a single platform by establishing Institutional Repository (IR) and to provide easy access to them over intranet/internet to the institute community and others. The 84 repositories are available in Brazil country with consists of total 11, 17,688 number of records and 62 repositories are in a mono-lingual type language which is used Spanish and Portuguese only. It is found that, most of the repositories are also used Portuguese languages but only one repository are generated by using Spanish language only.

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  • S. DHANAVANDAN

    O Laboratório Editorial foi instituído com o objetivo de criar condições e oportunidades para a difusão de pesquisas e tornar públicos os resultados dos trabalhos do corpo docente da FFC. Constitui-se num órgão adjunto à Diretoria da FFC e vinculado à SAEPE, com o apoio da Seção Gráfica, da Diretoria, da Biblioteca, e das Seções de Finanças, Compras e Técnica Acadêmica. A função do Laboratório Editorial é a de assessorar, planejar, realizar e distribuir livros, periódicos e outras publicações elaboradas na FFC.

    E-mail: labeditorial@marilia.unesp.br 

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2015-08-10

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How to Cite

“The Growth and Development Institucional Repositories in Brazil”. Brazilian Journal of Information Science: Research Trends, vol. 9, no. 1, Aug. 2015, https://doi.org/10.36311/1981-1640.2015.v9n1.10.p168.