ABSTRACT
In present times, the institutional repositories enable the gathering, storage, treatment, preservation and visibility of informational resources produced in the academic field. The objective of the research was to investigate the thematic representation of documentary information in institutional repositories in the context of academic libraries, by means of the application of organizational diagnostic interviews as a qualitative methodology with the managers of the institutional repositories and catalogers-indexers librarians from USP, UNESP and UNICAMP, with documentation collection. The systematize of the comparative analysis of the universe of institutional repositories investigated revealed the need for institutional repositories adequacy in the thematic representation performed by the cataloguer-indexer librarian. As closing remarks, the importance of the quality of thematic representation of informational resources in institutional repositories is emphasized, enabling the appropriate retrieval by subjects by the academic community.
KEYWORDS:
Subject representation; Institutional repositories; Libraryan’s role; Semi-structured interview; University libraries
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