Desenvolvimento de coleções em bibliotecas universitárias: o caso dos repositórios institucionais.

Abstract

This paper presents brief reflections about the collection development in institutional repositories, with emphasis on the university library. It covers the stages of selection, acquisition, indexing, dissemination, disposition and copyrights, as well as highlights the importance of drafting a new development policy that embraces this new phase of information management which is the deposit of materials in digital repositories. It makes some reflections on the evolution of the digital collections, its importance in scientific communication today and in the context of the university library as a new medium for information. Defines institutional repositories, thematic and theses and dissertations, and what emerged as its importance for academicscientific community and society, and urges the university libraries and librarians to the new context that sometimes arises.