%0 Journal Article
%T PATHS FOLLOWED FOR THE DIGITIZATION OF THE DISSERTATIONS COMING FROM THE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN INFORMATION SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA PARA¨ªBA USING THE DSPACE PLATFORM AS A DIGITAL REPOSITORY
%A Dulce Elizabeth Lima de Sousa
%A Patr¨ªcia Silva
%J Biblionline
%D 2010
%I Universidade Federal da Para¨ªba
%X Digital information and communicationtechnologies modify individual's behavior andchange social relations significantly. Within thisdynamic chain of information, we realize thatmany scientific studies deployed only in printedmatter, were limited geographically and itscontents did not have adequate visibility. Thisresearch aims to report the paths followed for thedigitization of the dissertations coming from theGraduate Program in Information Science at theUniversidade Federal da Para¨ªba (PPGCI/UFPB)and made available through the DSpace platformas a digital repository. The research universe wascomposed by 174 dissertations. The documentswere scanned and processed using OpticalCharacter Recognition (OCR). It can be stated that26% of the existing dissertations are available atthe PPGCI/UFPB repository. Statistics show thatthese dissertations are being widely accessed bythe community.
%K Digitizing
%K Digital Repository
%K DSpace
%U http://periodicos.ufpb.br/ojs2/index.php/biblio/article/viewFile/7531/5517