Considerations around of process of uploading repositories via import records of international data bases

Abstract

Whereas there is a growing global interest in the implementation of institutional repositories and

discussions in the national sphere about this issue have been modest, and there are few consolidated

initiatives to develop these systems in Brazilian universities, this research takes as its theme the issue of

automatic loading of records commented by the guidelines of the intercontinental program Alfa Biblioteca

Babel. In order to demonstrate the possibilities and limitations of automatic loading of reference records

from international databases a four-stage study was done, which summarizes in: choosing of a software

to simulate a repository; analysing export formats of the metadata of some databases available in the

Portal Periódicos Capes; prospecting records and metadata format conversions; and feeding the

repository by means of the importation of collected records, indicating the effects of this practice. As a 

result, a number of cogitations were pointed, regarding the method that should be employed for a better

use of the automatic loading of records. It is believed that the automatic loading of reference records can

collaborate a lot with the early development of repositories, as it offers visibility to the scientific

production, favoring institutions in the production of rates of scientific production extracted from

emerging webmetrics studies, without disrespecting the principles of copyright of authors or publishers.