This research presents the results of a study that investigated the feasibility of implementing an institutional repository in the Courts of Accounts in Brazil. The repositories are presented as a tendency in organizations devoted to innovation, such as universities, with free tools for adoption. Therefore, the applied methodological procedures involved initially a descriptive research with data collection and quantitative method, and in the next moment; a exploratory research with qualitative method and the adoption of the Delphi technique. As a result, this research presents the effectiveness of the innovation subject to the adoption of guidelines with institutional, structural and operational character, for implementing architectural innovation in the libraries of the Courts of Accounts, and also describes the structural elements of each guideline and emphasizes the magnitude and the benefits that may occur in the institutions with the institutional repository implementation.
Innovation; Institutional repository; Specialized libraries; Courts of Accounts