Institutional Repository: an access portal to the intellectual productions of the scientific community of the Federal Institute of Espírito Santo
Institutional Repository. Library. Researchers. Information sources. Education
The main objective of this study was to develop an intervention project regarding the possibility of contribution by the Nilo Peçanha library, located at Ifes-Campus Vitória disclosing the Institutional Repository of the Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (IR/Ifes) as a research tool to be offered to students, teachers, civil servants and the entire academic community of the Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (Ifes). The research was made in the reference sector of the aforementioned library, since it is the place where IR/Ifes procedures take place, thus allowing its analysis. The motivation for this study originated from my personal experience as a librarian in the campus library, seeking to collaborate with the development of independent researchers, capable of critical thinking regarding the source of information. It used a qualitative approach, with its foundations in research-participant dynamics, and the data was collected by arranging meetings and applying a questionnaire that was later analyzed following the content analysis by Bardin (2009), based in the four categories of perception, utilization, training and disclosure. The meeting consisted of 10 people, ranging from librarians, teachers, master students, and the campus post-graduate programme director, and the questionnaire was answered by 20 (post-graduates) (master students) between 2021 and 2022. Results show that there was a modest correlation between disclosure and the use of IR/Ifes, indicating that there is a possibility of improvement, aiming to make it a more enhanced research tool as well as incentivise the use of this tool as a standard in the institution, as a way to increase disclosure. It was later proposed a disclosure intervention and an instruction guide and a submission from the IR/Ifes that contemplated creating a workshop, a folder and an instructional video of auto archiving. The production of this material is believed to fulfill the organization tool usage demand, since it will be available as a pedagogical resource to research methodology teachers and librarians when needed to give workshops and also as an orientation guide of auto archiving for Ifes students. In conclusion, this research contemplated the contribution of this tool for the librarian’s work in the sense of optimizing the auto archiving process made by students, seeking to minimize errors in the metadata archiving, therefore resulting in more precise searches by users.