Portal Periódicos CAPES: estudo dos não-usuários docentes das IFES brasileiras

• Autor(a) principal: Wesley Rodrigo Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECID-8XLNCE
• topic: Periódico eletrônico; Biblioteca digital; Portal de Periódicos Capes; Estudo de não-usuários; Indexação automatica; Interação social; Ciência da informação; Fenomenologia

This research aimed at understanding the phenomenon of the non-use of the Capes Portal of Scientific Journals by faculty at Federal Institutions of Higher Education in Brazil. The data was collected via two questionnaires: the first, answered by 6689 faculty, collected data on their personal and professional characteristics. The second questionnaire, sent to respondents of the first questionnaire who reported that they were non-users of the Capes Portal, had 1017 answers. In both questionnaires, the respondents were distributed over 17 Brazilianfederal universities evenly distributed in Brazil's five geographic regions. The research used a quantitative methodology with the collection of some qualitative data. The study is characterized as exploratory and descriptive. Through the Chi- Square test, the study verified which variables were related to the use or non-use of the Capes Digital Library. Data about the use of the Capes Portal by different areas of knowledge and geographic regions, the reasons for the non-use of the Portal, the barriers for its use as well as the use of other electronic information resources by thenon-users of the Portal were also analyzed. Results show that the variables that influence the use or non use of the Portal are: age, area of knowledge and, in some cases, the sub-areas of knowledge, university, level of education, years dedicated to teaching, number of weekly hours devoted to research, computer skills, Internet skills, and preference for printed or digital journals. The data revealed that 16,1% of the respondents of the first questionnaire do not use the Capes Portal. These nonusers belonged mainly to the areas of language, literature and arts (39%), applied social sciences (28,3%) and humanities (24,3%). On the other hand the faculty that most use the Portal belonged, respectively, to biological sciences (97,7%), exact and earth sciences (90,8%) and health sciences (88,4%). Nevertheless, data revealed that within the same great area of knowledge, there was a large variation in the useof the Portal by faculty in different sub-areas showing that use or non-use of the Portal cannot be generalized to sub-areas in the same field of knowledge. There is not an statistically significant variation in use and non-use of the Capes Digital Library among Brazilian geographic regions, since in the region that most uses the Portal, the South, 85% of the respondents use it, and in the region that less uses the Portal, the Northeast, 82,3% of the faculty use it. The data also indicated that the five main reasons for not using the Portal, accounting for more than 70% of the responses, are the lack ok knowledge about its existence (24,5%), the use of other information resources (22,3%), preference for print journals (11,6%), difficulty to access the Portal (6,6% ) and lack of home access to the Capes Portal (6,4%). The study also found that the main electronic information resources used by non users of the CapesPortal, accounting for more than 70% of the resources reported, were, respectively, the Internet search tools (28,15%), web sites (18,74%), bookstores on the Internet (14,75%) and the library online catalogs (11,67%).