Search, access and dissemination of scientific information from scientists, social scientists and humanists

Authors

  • Fernando César Lima Leite Universidade de Brasília

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2014.195

Keywords:

Scholarly communication, Scholarly information flow, Communication patterns, Scholarly knowledge production, Sciences, Social sciences, Humanities, Brazil

Abstract

This paper presents results of study on the characteristics of search activities, access to and use of information, and dissemination habits of researchers from scientific research institutes. From the methodological point of view, it is a mixed methods study which adopted the concurrent triangulation strategy. Data were collected through questionnaires, interviews and checklist, and then submitted to statistical and text analysis. The research sphere was consisted of researchers linked to the research units of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and the sample basis were the researchers of the Brazilian Centre for Physics Research (CBPF) and Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences (MAST). Among other aspects, the findings shows that the safeguarded their disciplinary differences, search, access and communication activities, regardless of the knowledge area, occurring mainly in the digital environment; communication habits are stimulated by motives common to scientists and social scientists and humanists, share knowledge and visibility are the main reasons for the dissemination of research results, physicists are naturally within the open access context.

Author Biography

Fernando César Lima Leite, Universidade de Brasília

Graduado em Biblioteconomia. Mestre em Ciência da Informação. Doutor em Ciência da Informação. Experiência na área de Ciência da Informação, atuando principalmente nos seguintes tópicos: informação em ciência e tecnologia, gestão da informação e do conhecimento científico, biblioteconomia, planejamento e implementação de serviços de informação em C&T em ambiente digital, comunicação científica, divulgação científica, acesso aberto e repositórios institucionais, periódicos científicos eletrônicos. Editor pelo Brasil do E-LIS Eprints in Library and Information Science (repositório temático internacional da produção científica em Ciência da Informação). Foi analista da Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) onde planejou e implementou atividades de gestão da informação científica, tecnológica e organizacional e coordenou iniciativa e estratégias de acesso aberto à informação científica. Consultor do IBICT entre 2006 e 2009. Especialista Visitante do IBICT entre 2010 e 2013, no âmbito do Programa de Capacitação Institucional (PCI/CNPQ). É professor adjunto da Faculdade de Ciência da Informação da Universidade de Brasília.

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Published

2015-05-07

How to Cite

Lima Leite, F. C. (2015). Search, access and dissemination of scientific information from scientists, social scientists and humanists. Biblios Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, (57), 22–42. https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2014.195

Issue

No. 57 (2014)

Section

Original

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