Purpose-This article aims to verify the implementation of digital preservation policies at the institutional repositories of Brazilian Federal Universities. Design/methodology/approach-The methodology used involved the verification of the information available in the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) and on the websites of the institutional repositories, in order to confirm the existence of published digital preservation policies. We used a sample of the 26 institutional repositories of Brazilian Federal Universities registered with OpenDOAR, which represents 68% of these repositories. Findings-The main conclusion is that the institutional repositories of these universities do not have any published digital preservation policies, even though some repositories state their intention of preserving digital material in their institutional information policy. Originality/value-The stakeholders of institutional repositories need to implement a programme to guide their activities to preserve digital materials in the long-term. In fact, similarly to examples worldwide, this programme should take the form of an institutional commitment outlined in a digital preservation policy. Institutional repositories at Brazilian Federal Universities still have a long way to go in order to guarantee access to digital materials in the longterm.
Resumo O portal do Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes (CCHLA) compõe o conjunto de informações web indicadas pela Carta de Serviços ao Cidadão da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). Esta pesquisa procura colaborar para o incremento da qualidade do uso dessa fonte de informação por meio dos Estudos de Usuários, no campo da Ciência da Informação, com base na Engenharia da Usabilidade, mais precisamente, no conceito de usabilidade, definido por Jakob Nielsen, associado aos atributos: facilidade de aprendizado, eficiência de uso, facilidade de memorização, incidência de erros e satisfação subjetiva.Palavras-chave Estudos de Usuários, Ciência da Informação, Usabilidade, Engenharia de Usabilidade, Portal do CCHLA.Abstract The homepage of the Centre for Humanities, Arts and Letters of the Federal University of Paraíba is listed among the web information sources indicated by the Univerity’s Carta de Serviços ao Cidadão. The present study intends to collaborate towards increasing the quality of this source of information through the Users Study in Information Science based on Usability Engineering, mainly the concept of usability adopted by Jakob Nielsen, associated to the atributes of learning facility, use efficiency, memorizing facility, error occurrences and subject satisfaction.Keywords Users Studies, Information Science, Usability, Usability Engineering, CCHLA Homepage.
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