Challenges for implementing the institutional repository of the Federal Institute of Maranhão

Abstract

This research aims to present the main challenges faced by librarians of the Federal Institute of Education of Maranhão (IFMA) to foster the implementation of the institutional repository. This study is based on approaches that favored the development of initiatives for the democratization of scientific communication through open access in Brazil, around the implementation of technological tools for scientific dissemination, such as institutional repositories. The research is characterized as mixed, descriptive and exploratory and was based on the application of an online questionnaire, built based on studies already conducted that had similar objectives in relation to the implementation of institutional repositories in institutions of the same network. The questionnaire was sent by e-mail to the 23 active IFMA libraries in

operation, of which 12 were answered. The data were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively, evidencing the main difficulties that until then disfavor the implementation of the institutional repository. It was concluded that despite the initiatives carried out by librarians to start the process of implementing the repository, some issues were evidenced and characterized as major obstacles in this implementation process, such as: little technical knowledge about the implementation processes of the repository; failure to prioritize the development of the implementation actions of the repository added to the lack of institutional policies for compulsory deposit of academic production, as well as the low interaction of librarians with the Information Technology team, configuring themselves as the main difficulties for the full development of the process of implementation of the institutional repository.