Basic requirements for periodicals evaluation

Abstract

This work aims to present some procedures that characterize the evaluation of periodicals process. The search was developed in the library of EMBRAPA-CTAA. The method used was an adaptation of the study elaborated by Santos e Melo (1997) “Contribution to the establishment of criteria for the policy of buying foreigner periodicals at the Rio de Janeiro Federal University”. In this work, quantitative criteria had been considered (volume of use and availability) and qualitative (get the opinion of the user). The sample comprises 116 titles of current foreigner periodic. The degree of importance (GI) of this titles was obtained using the sum of availability (DP) and user’s opinion that emonstrated that more than 67% of the collection was considered important to this library. Indeed, it was verified that although not provided with a selection policy based on appropriated methodologies, the library of the CTAA kept its collection in accordance with the necessities of its users.