The challenges of embargo policies in Institutional Repositories: a study of collections of theses and dissertations in Brazilian research institutes and universities

Abstract

This present work aims to analyze the Access Policies of institutional repositories (RIs) of Brazilian universities and research institutes in the first positions of the Brazil Web of Repositories Ranking through methodological research from the digital addresses of the selected repositories, producing a qualitative and quantitative analysis of data by means of graphs and tables, highlighting the divergence of the results. It aims to clarify the practices of the production embargo of theses and dissertations foreseen in the policies of these RIs and evaluates the condition of the policies of these repositories. It establishes, based on the results and in the literature, that there is a need for the creation of guidelines at national level for the elaboration and standardisation of repositories for the greater organisation and guarantee of Open Access

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