Information behavior inside brazilian’s information science dissertations and thesis from 2007-2012: Literature review

Authors

  • Vitor Taga Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC
  • Ursula Blattmann Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2012.52

Keywords:

Information behavior, Information seeking-behavior, Information seeking, Use of information, Information needs, User studies

Abstract

Studies of information behavior have attracted interest from several areas of knowledge, including information science. We conducted an exhaustive documentary research into dissertations and thesis published in eleven brazilian Post-Graduate Programs in Information Science, from 2007 to april 2012. Were identified a total of 465 thesis and 157 thesis published in the respective period. By applying the choice of the following terms in the title and keywords: Informational Behavior; Information Seeking-Behavior; Information Needs; User Studies; Information Seeking; Information Access; Use of Information; Needs, Seeking, Access and Use of Information; Sense-Making; Decision Making; and Information Retrieval was obtained 88 thesis and 17 dissertations for analysis. The most occurred terms in the title were: Decision Making (11), Information Behavior (10) and Information Retrieval (10). It should be noted that in the keywords Information Retrieval (49) had the highest frequency of occurrence between terms, followed by User Studies (19), Information Behavior (15), Information Needs (12), Decision Making (10). The average between 2007 and 2010 was 19 published papers per year. The study identified the published work advisors and generate a graph which shows the central position of six advisors: Ricardo Barbosa (UFMG), Monica Nassif Erichsen Borges (UFMG), Murilo Bastos da Cunha (UNB), Emir Jose Suaiden ( UNB), Helen de Castro Silva Casarin (UNESP), Isa Maria Freire (UFF / UFPB). The information behavior theme appears with more frequently in the follow institutions: UFMG, UNB, UNESP and UFPB. The survey showed the continuity studies in this area and pointed out that approximately one fifth of thesis and 1/10 of dissertations studies cover this area in Brazil.

Author Biographies

Vitor Taga, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC

Mestrado em andamento (início 2010) em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Possui graduação em Biblioteconomia pela Universidade Federal de Goiás (2008).

Ursula Blattmann, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC

Professora na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Atua no Departamento de Ciência da Informação
Sub-coordenadora do Curso de Graduação em Arquivologia
Curso de Graduação em Biblioteconomia

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Published

2012-06-13

How to Cite

Taga, V., & Blattmann, U. (2012). Information behavior inside brazilian’s information science dissertations and thesis from 2007-2012: Literature review. Biblios Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, (47), 30–51. https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2012.52

Issue

No. 47 (2012)

Section

Original

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