O Brasil e o novo desenvolvimentismo

The global economic scenario, from the late 1980s, it was predominantly marked by the hegemony of political and economic orthodoxy. The strength of a great political pact that brought together the financial sector, rentiers and the big capital, and had the Washington Consensus as base, induced countries to adopt liberalizing policies such as trade liberalization, privatization and deregulation. The failure of these policies, manifested in unemployment, external vulnerability and low growth has led to a change in economic direction, particularly after the election of President Lula. Amid this situation, we can see a reorientation of the role of the Brazilian state, in response to a movement of their own society organized to implement a new national strategy, with the state as a promoter of development. In this project of a new strategy, the state action becomes strategic and not systemic, turning to strengthen national companies in strategic sectors and internationally competitive. In this ongoing process of a new development strategy, we adopted the conceptualization of what Bresser-Pereira calls the new developmentalism.

Asesor en derechos de autor: un nuevo rol del bibliotecario universitario?

Considering that university librarians have an advantageous position in mediating information resources and users, one can consider them as the more suitable professionals to provide intellectual property advice to professors and students. But, ¿do they really have the required knowledge to face that duty? To determine the level of knowledge, among university librarians, about copyright problems, a questionnaire was used to survey librarians of the University of Granada. The results show a considerable lack of knowledge what points out to the need of a training program about these issues as a priority matter for the current university libraries.