SELF-ARCHIVING IN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORIES IN THE NORTH

Abstract

This study addresses self-archiving policies in university institutional repositories as instruments that guide cognitive activities involved in knowledge representation during the self-archiving process, with implications for term assignment, metadata consistency, and information retrieval. In this context, the research problem is defined as follows: how do self-archiving policies in institutional repositories of universities in Northern Brazil incorporate indexing guidelines? The study aims to examine the incorporation of indexing guidelines into self-archiving policies of institutional repositories in universities located in Northern Brazil, considering the need to deepen investigations into the relationship between self-archiving policies and indexing guidelines in university institutional repositories. Methodologically, the research is characterized as basic and descriptive, adopting a qualitative-quantitative approach and documentary method. The results reveal a predominance of mixed policies, coexistence between self-archiving and institutional mediation, broad availability of visual support materials, and limited incorporation of guidelines related to subject representation, particularly regarding the systematic use of controlled vocabularies. It is concluded that the analyzed policies prior