A Survey about Integration of Journal Systems with Repositories in Brazil

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

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Open Access Movement has two major channels to spread scientific documents without barriers: repositories and open e-journals. Thus, journals publish scientific knowledge, while repositories preserve and proffer access facilities, complementing each other. Integration between these two systems may be performed by a communication protocol called SWORD ( Simple Web Service Offering Repository Deposit ). However, this protocol is not always known or used. In this context, the present study provides an overview of the adoption of the SWORD protocol in Brazil, revealing little adoption among journals and repositories, even when they are bound to the same institution. However there is the intention of future use despite the lack of technical documentation available in portuguese.