The role of institutional and discipline repositories in the structure of scientific production
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Institutional repositories, Discipline repositories, Electronic scientific communication, Open Files Initiative, Free Access MovementAbstract
The aim of this article is to contribute for the understanding of the new landscape of the scientific communication in the 21st century through some considerations about the role of institutional and discipline repositories in this context, based on Subramanyam’s (1980) statements on the structure of scientific literature. The starting point of this approach focuses the characteristics of products (publications, digital repositories and services providers), processes (electronic publishing and communication) and their counterparts in the structure of scientific literature. It concludes that the cycle of online scientific production is constituted by primary sources (online scientific publications), secondary sources (institutional and discipline repositories) and tertiary sources (services providers) and that the implementation and use of these three types of sources are imperative to promote scientific development in present time.Downloads
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