Método automatizado para análise do autoarquivamento na Ciência da Informação: ELIScript

Abstract

Self-archiving is the deposit of scientific production, carried out by the author of the work, in an institutional or subject repository with open access. Subject repositories store and provide access to the literature of a specific discipline and its related subjects. This study proposes an automated methodology to analyze self-archiving in Library and Information Science, aiming to evaluate the contributions of the Eprints in Library and Information Science (E-LIS) repository for open scientific communication in the field. For such, an instrument in Python programming language, ELIScript, was developed, which allowed to collect and analyze the scientific production of the repository. This production was characterized based on the type of documents deposited, their subjects, date of publication, date of deposit, language, scientific journals, scientific events and keywords. The research was configured as applied, quantitative, descriptive and exploratory. With the creation of ELIScript it was possible to collect data from the entire E-LIS collection. The research sample consists of 23,245 documents, subdivided between Africa (187 documents); America, divided into: a) North and Central America (3,345); and b) South America (4,125); Antarctica (2); Asia (2,169); Europe (13,253); and Oceania (164). The results show that the scientific production of E-LIS was deposited between 2002 and 2020, and the documents were published between 1965 and 2020. About 47% of the documents deposited are journal articles. The subjects most covered in the documents are "Information Use and Sociology of Information", "Information Technology and Library Technology", and "Information Treatment for Information Services". More specifically, the documents deal with “Information Dissemination and Diffusion”, “Repositories” and “Bibliometric Methods”. Spanish appears as the most frequent language of publications, followed by English, Italian, German and Portuguese. The articles published in journals and deposited in E-LIS are indexed in important databases in the field, such as LISTA, LISA and ISTA, and general databases such as Web of Science and Scopus, some of them with a high impact factor. It was also verified the existence of documents published or presented at regional, national and international scientific events. From the data, it can be said that E-LIS has achieved recognition as an open international library and information science community. The creation of an automated methodology can assist in monitoring the scientific production deposited in E-LIS, without having to recreate methods for data collection and analysis. Researching self-archiving in Librarianship and Information Science showed the need to encourage this practice to preserve the field's memory, so that it serves as a source of information for scientific works and benefits the professional practice of librarians, archivists, museologists and information scientists. Having articles and other documents published in open access journals does not guarantee that these works will be preserved over time. The best alternative is still depositing in digital repositories according to the Open Access Movement.