Recuperando bibliotecas e repositórios institucionais: uma experiência com o Google Acadêmico no Brasil utilizando um estudo de caso para idosos

Abstract

The article describes and analyzes the authors' experience with the Google Scholar search strategy with a focus on the elderly subjects. The search was done with the following descriptors, related by the Boolean operator AND: "SciELO AND Idoso AND Accident AND Traffic AND City", with option Search Pages in Portuguese. The goal was also to retrieve articles from the ScIELO database, a virtual library of magazines in electronic format, but allowing Google Scholar's broader strategy to operate. The results indicated that of the 120 items recovered, 30.2% (n=113) of the total recovered (without the exclusions) were articles from SciELO, followed by 21.2% (n=24) of other articles. Twelve items were retrieved from the Digital Library of Monographs of the University of Brasilia (n=12, 10.6%), followed by Books Google (n=6, 5.3%) and the Repository of the State University of Paraíba (n=5, 4.4%). The conclusion is that students should be encouraged to broaden their search strategies to be as complete as possible.