CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / As tecnologias vÃm se tornando cada vez mais presentes no cotidiano das pessoas que trabalham com educaÃÃo, em especial com a EducaÃÃo à Distancia. Entre as diversas tecnologias aplicadas à educaÃÃo, encontra-se a utilizaÃÃo de Recursos Educacionais Abertos - REA. Este estudo pesquisou alguns dos conceitos de REA associados a aprendizagem atravÃs da interatividade entre usuÃrio-aprendiz e o recurso com que ele interage. Dentro deste contexto, esta pesquisa aplicada analisou e classificou diversos REA com base no cone de aprendizagem de Dale, e em conjunto com o MÃtodo de AvaliaÃÃo Ergo-PedagÃgico â MAEP se estabeleceu recomendaÃÃes ergopedagÃgicas para criaÃÃo e avaliaÃÃo destes recursos, com Ãnfase naqueles que possuem um maior grau de imersÃo com o aprendiz, as simulaÃÃes virtuais. Esta pesquisa foi realizada com os objetos do repositÃrio digital Interred, desenvolvido pelas parcerias da Rednet, MEC e CENTEC onde foram utilizados REA presentes no mesmo para a aplicaÃÃo e testes das recomendaÃÃes aqui presentes. O resultado se revela nas recomendaÃÃes para reconfiguraÃÃo do Interred segundo os critÃrios estabelecidos de classificaÃÃo de OE â Objetos Educacionais de acordo com sua Ãrea de conhecimento e formatos, bem como para a criaÃÃo de REA altamente interativos. / The technologies are becoming increasingly present in everyday life of those who work in education, especially with the Distance Education. Among the many topics of study in this area, one of them lies in the use of Open Educational Resources - OER. Although research with OERs is a recurring theme in studies around the world, yet little explored lies within the context of the Brazilian Academy, so this study investigated some of the concepts associated OERs learning through interactivity between the learner and user-resource with which it interacts. Within this context this applied research, examined various REAS and ranked them based on Dale\'s cone of expertise, and in conjunction with the Valuation Method Ergo-Pedagogical - MAEP, settled ergo-pedagogical recommendations for creating and evaluating these resources, with emphasis on those that have a greater degree of immersion with the learner, virtual simulations. This research was conducted with the objects of the digital repository Interred developed by partnerships of Rednet MEC e CENTEC, where present the same to the application and testing of the recommendations made here. The result reveals the recommendations for the reconfiguration Interred according to established criteria for classifying LOs - learning objects according to their area of expertise and formats, as well as for creating highly interactive REAs.

Os avanços tecnológicos impõem um grande desafio para a preservação do patrimônio digital. Além de garantir a longevidade e acessibilidade dos documentos, é necessário mantê-los autênticos e íntegros para que os usuários confiem neles como fonte de informação e objeto de estudo. Instituições guardiãs precisam assumir a preservação de suas coleções digitais e construir repositórios digitais confiáveis. Este trabalho recorre a um estudo exploratório para conhecer as práticas de preservação da autenticidade e integridade dos documentos que compõem os acervos das bibliotecas digitais de teses e dissertações das três universidades estaduais paulistas (Universidade de São Paulo - USP, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio Mesquita Filho - Unesp e Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp). As práticas dessas universidades demonstram a necessidade de melhorias para que elas sejam efetivamente capazes de assumir a responsabilidade de salvaguardar o patrimônio digital. / Technological innovations raise a set of great challenges to the preservation of digital heritage. Besides assuring the longevity and accessibility of digital documents, it is also important to preserve their authenticity and integrity so one can trust and use digital documents as information source and study objects. Memory organizations must assume an active role in preserving their digital collections and building trusted digital repositories. This dissertation searches through an exploratory study to uncover the practices of the digital libraries of theses and dissertations of the three state universities of Sao Paulo (Universidade de São Paulo - USP, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Unesp e Universidade Estadual de Campinas - Unicamp) for preserving the authenticity and integrity of their collections. Their preservation practices show that improvements need to be done so they can in fact take the responsibility of preserving digital heritage.

A investigação teve como objetivo apresentar uma metodologia de organização, representação, preservação e disseminação da informação técnico-científica em plataformas de acesso aberto: DSpace e Archivematica, tendo como base os princípios da Arquivística, Organização e Representação do Conhecimento e Arquitetura da Informação para subsidiar a concepção, modelagem e implementação de um protótipo de repositório digital aplicado no domínio da Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência - SBPC. Para alcançar os objetivos propostos, utilizou-se da abordagem hipotético-dedutivo e da pesquisa ação para compor o desenvolvimento do quadro teórico e empírico da pesquisa. O percurso metodológico foi realizado a partir de uma extensa revisão bibliográfica sobres as temáticas envolvidas. Num primeiro momento, buscou-se a identificação e seleção de aportes conceituais e metodológicos que pudessem orientar a criação do repositório. Em seguida, foi aplicado a metodologia da identificação de tipologia documental para o reconhecimento do domínio de aplicação, visando levantar e identificar as funções, atividades, espécies e tipologias documentais para nortear a sistematização do arcabouço conceitual e metodológico (criação de plano de classificação, definição da camada de metadados, e sistemas de organização, navegação, rotulação e busca. E por fim, a customização dos componentes técnicofuncionais da plataforma DSpace e a sua integração com o software Archivematica. Como resultado final, apresenta-se a definição de um conjunto de requisitos mínimos relativos às estruturas e elementos que compõem a arquitetura da informação, camada de metadados para organização, representação e recuperação da informação, sistemas de organização do conhecimento e aspectos fundamentais para subsidiar a gestão da preservação digital a longo prazo. Conclui-se, portanto, que a plataforma DSpace integrada com o Archivematica podem ser dispositivos eficazes para prover o armazenamento, organização, representação, disseminação e preservação de documentos destinados à guarda permanente para constituir a memória institucional. / The investigation had the objective of presenting a methodology of organization, representation, preservation and dissemination of technical and scientific information in open access platforms: DSpace and Archivematica, based on the principles of Archival Science, organization and representantion of knowledge and information architecture to subsidize the conception, modeling and implementation of a digital repository prototype applied in the dominion of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science - SBPC. To achieve the proposed objectives, we used the hypothetical-deductive approach and action research to compose the development of the theoretical and empirical framework of the research. The methodological path was carried out from an extensive bibliographical review on the themes involved. In a first moment, it was sought an identification and selection of conceptual and methodological contributions that could orientate the repository creation. Then, the methodology of identification of documentary typology was applied for the recognition of the application dominion, aiming to raise and identify the functions, activities, species and documentary typologies to guide the systematization of the conceptual and methodological framework (creation of classification plan, metadata layer, and organization, navigation, lettering and search system). And finally, the customization of technical-functional components of the DSpace platform and your integration with the Archivematica software. As final result, presents the definition of a series of minimum requirements relative to the structures and elements of the information architecture, metadata layers to information organization, representation and recuperation, knowledge organization system and fundamental aspects to subsidize the management of a long term digital preservation. Therefore, concludes that the platform DSpace integrated with the Archivematica can be effective devices to provide the storage, organization, representation, dissemination and preservation of documents intended for permanent custody to constitute the institutional memory.

O advento da internet revolucionou o modo como cientistas comunicam os resultados de suas pesquisas, potencializando a disseminação e o acesso à produção científica. Esse fato foi responsável pela reestruturação do fluxo da informação científica (ICT), que passou a incorporar características próprias da cultura digital. A Iniciativa dos Arquivos Abertos constituiu a infraestrutura que apóia essa reestruturação. Também foi responsável pela institucionalização de um modelo denominado repositórios de e-prints (RE), o qual armazena, dissemina e promove a produção científica, publicada ou não, em um espaço gerido pela própria comunidade científica, que permite a inclusão de seus comentários públicos sobre o conteúdo dessa produção. A hipótese do trabalho sugere que a aderência desse modelo pelas comunidades científicas é dependente do seu nível de compreensão e aceitação e do perfil da área, interferindo na adoção da inovação e em sua legitimação. Por meio de um estudo de caso de pesquisadores brasileiros das Ciências da Comunicação foi empreendida a técnica do grupo de foco eletrônico entre 18 pesquisadores, cujo perfil foi formado por líderes de grupos de pesquisa cadastrados no CNPq com formação na área. O estudo exploratório permitiu identificar diversas questões presentes nas dinâmicas da comunicação científica da área conduzindo à comprovação da hipótese. Dentre os resultados destacam-se a baixa percepção de que esse modelo otimiza o fluxo da ICT e a forte tendência para não aceitação do modelo em função do perfil da área. Conclui-se que o nível de aderência ao modelo insere-se em uma escala que varia de média a baixa. / The advent of the internet has revolutionized the way scientists communicate their research results increasing the power to disseminate and to access scientific production. This fact was responsible to restructure the scientific information flow that has incorporated its own characteristics from the digital culture. The Open Archives Initiative constituted the infrastructure that supports this restructuring. It was also responsible for the institutionalization of a model called e-prints repositories (ER), that stores, disseminates and promotes scientific production, published or not, in a place managed by the scientific community itself, that allows the inclusion of their public commentaries about contents of that production. The hypothesis of this work suggests that the adherence to this model by the scientific communities depends on the level of understanding and acceptance, of the profile of the field interfering with the adoption of the innovation and its legitimation. Through a case study of Brazilian researchers from the Communication Sciences field it had been carried out the electronic focus group technique among 18 researchers, whose profile was formed by researches leaders registered at CNPq with backgroung in the field. The exploratory study identified many questions present in the dynamics of scientific communication of the field leading to proof of the hypothesis. From among results, distinguish low perception of that this model optimized the scientific information flow and strong tendency to not accept the model becauce of field profile. In conclusion, the level of adherence to the model is inserted in a medium to low scale.

O advento da internet revolucionou o modo como cientistas comunicam os resultados de suas pesquisas, potencializando a disseminação e o acesso à produção científica. Esse fato foi responsável pela reestruturação do fluxo da informação científica (ICT), que passou a incorporar características próprias da cultura digital. A Iniciativa dos Arquivos Abertos constituiu a infraestrutura que apóia essa reestruturação. Também foi responsável pela institucionalização de um modelo denominado repositórios de e-prints (RE), o qual armazena, dissemina e promove a produção científica, publicada ou não, em um espaço gerido pela própria comunidade científica, que permite a inclusão de seus comentários públicos sobre o conteúdo dessa produção. A hipótese do trabalho sugere que a aderência desse modelo pelas comunidades científicas é dependente do seu nível de compreensão e aceitação e do perfil da área, interferindo na adoção da inovação e em sua legitimação. Por meio de um estudo de caso de pesquisadores brasileiros das Ciências da Comunicação foi empreendida a técnica do grupo de foco eletrônico entre 18 pesquisadores, cujo perfil foi formado por líderes de grupos de pesquisa cadastrados no CNPq com formação na área. O estudo exploratório permitiu identificar diversas questões presentes nas dinâmicas da comunicação científica da área conduzindo à comprovação da hipótese. Dentre os resultados destacam-se a baixa percepção de que esse modelo otimiza o fluxo da ICT e a forte tendência para não aceitação do modelo em função do perfil da área. Conclui-se que o nível de aderência ao modelo insere-se em uma escala que varia de média a baixa. / The advent of the internet has revolutionized the way scientists communicate their research results increasing the power to disseminate and to access scientific production. This fact was responsible to restructure the scientific information flow that has incorporated its own characteristics from the digital culture. The Open Archives Initiative constituted the infrastructure that supports this restructuring. It was also responsible for the institutionalization of a model called e-prints repositories (ER), that stores, disseminates and promotes scientific production, published or not, in a place managed by the scientific community itself, that allows the inclusion of their public commentaries about contents of that production. The hypothesis of this work suggests that the adherence to this model by the scientific communities depends on the level of understanding and acceptance, of the profile of the field interfering with the adoption of the innovation and its legitimation. Through a case study of Brazilian researchers from the Communication Sciences field it had been carried out the electronic focus group technique among 18 researchers, whose profile was formed by researches leaders registered at CNPq with backgroung in the field. The exploratory study identified many questions present in the dynamics of scientific communication of the field leading to proof of the hypothesis. From among results, distinguish low perception of that this model optimized the scientific information flow and strong tendency to not accept the model becauce of field profile. In conclusion, the level of adherence to the model is inserted in a medium to low scale.

Η ραγδαία ανάπτυξη του Παγκόσμιου Ιστού τα τελευταία χρόνια έχει προκαλέσει την αύξηση του εκπαιδευτικού υλικού που είναι διαθέσιμο σε ηλεκτρονική μορφή, με αποτέλεσμα η αναζήτηση και η εύρεση των ψηφιακών εκπαιδευτικών υλικών να γίνεται όλο και πιο δύσκολη. Για αυτό το λόγο τα ψηφιακά εκπαιδευτικά αντικείμενα, ή αλλιώς Μαθησιακά Αντικείμενα (Learning Objects) πρέπει να περιγράφονται με τη χρήση εκπαιδευτικών μεταδεδομένων έτσι ώστε να διευκολύνονται οι λειτουργίες της εύρεσης, ανάκτησης, κατηγοριοποίησης και επαναχρησιμοποίησης των αντικειμένων. Τα τελευταία χρόνια έχουν δημιουργηθεί αρκετά αποθέματα για την αποθήκευση ψηφιακών εκπαιδευτικών αντικειμένων, όπως είναι το DSpace, το EPrints και το Fedora. Τα ψηφιακά αποθέματα κάνουν χρήση μεταδεδομένων για τα ψηφιακά αντικείμενα που αποθηκεύονται στο σύστημά τους. Συχνά όμως παρατηρείται ότι ενώ η κύρια χρήση των αποθεμάτων είναι για εκπαιδευτικούς σκοπούς, δεν δίνεται η δυνατότητα να εμπλουτίζονται τα εκπαιδευτικά αντικείμενα που αποθηκεύονται στα αποθέματα με μεταδεδομένα εκπαιδευτικού τύπου. Κατά συνέπεια, ο κύριος στόχος της διπλωματικής εργασίας είναι να μελετήσει τα διαθέσιμα πρότυπα εκπαιδευτικών μεταδεδομένων και να επεκτείνει τα υπάρχοντα σύνολα μεταδεδομένων των ψηφιακών αποθεμάτων ώστε να συμπεριλαμβάνουν και μεταδεδομένα εκπαιδευτικού σκοπού. Για να επιβεβαιωθούν τα αποτελέσματα της συγκεκριμένης μελέτη έγινε εφαρμογή της σε ένα πραγματικό εκπαιδευτικό απόθεμα που αναπτύχθηκε στα πλαίσια του ΕΠΕΑΕΚ ΙΙ για το Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών. Βασικό χαρακτηριστικό των εκπαιδευτικών αποθεμάτων είναι και η διαλειτουργικότητα με άλλα συστήματα. Η διαλειτουργικότητα εξασφαλίζει τη συνεργασία του συστήματος με άλλα αποθέματα επιτρέποντας τη συγκομιδή και αξιοποίηση των ψηφιακών αντικειμένων και από άλλα αποθέματα. Για το λόγο αυτό μελετάται το πώς μπορεί να επιτευχθεί η διαλειτουργικότητα ενός συστήματος ώστε να αξιοποιούνται και τα εκπαιδευτικά μεταδεδομένα του αποθέματος, μέσω της υπηρεσίας ΟΑΙ-PMH, που υποστηρίζεται από τα περισσότερα αποθέματα, αλλά και μέσω της καινούριας υπηρεσίας OAI-ORE. Η υλοποίηση της διαλειτουργικότητας στα πλαίσια της συγκεκριμένης εργασίας επικεντρώνεται στο σύστημα DSpace. Ο Σημαντικός Ιστός (Semantic Web) αποτελεί την εξέλιξη του Παγκόσμιου Ιστού. Στον Σημαντικό Ιστό οι πληροφορίες περιγράφονται από δεδομένα αποκτώντας συγκεκριμένη σημασία και δίνοντας έτσι τη δυνατότητα στις μηχανές να επεξεργαστούν δεδομένα που μέχρι σήμερα ήταν κατανοητά μόνο από τους ανθρώπους. Έτσι, γίνεται μελέτη ώστε να επιτευχθεί η δυνατότητα σημασιακής διαλειτουργικότητας στα αποθέματα και συγκεκριμένα στο DSpace. Με τον τρόπο αυτό γίνεται δυνατή η συνδιαλλαγή και διαπραγμάτευση πληροφοριών μεταξύ συστημάτων, οι οποίες, ενώ μπορεί να είναι κατά βάση ετερογενείς, προερχόμενες από πολλαπλές πηγές και αδόμητες σημασιακά, μπορούν να συσχετίζονται και, βάσει συμπερασμών, να συνδυάζονται κατάλληλα με στόχο την ανακάλυψη νέας γνώσης. / The rapid growth of World Wide Web in the last years has led to an increase of the educational material that is available in digital way. As a result of this, searching and discovering of digital educational material is becoming more and more difficult. For this reason, digital education objects, or Learning Objects, have to be described using education metadata in order to facilitate searching, retrieval, classification and reuse of these objects. In the recent years, a lot of repositories have been built to store digital educational objects, like DSpace, EPrints and Fedora. Digital repositories make use of metadata to describe digital objects that are stored in their system. But we can note that although the main use of these repository systems is for educational purposes, we do not have the ability to enrich learning objects that are stored in these systems with educational metadata. Therefore, the main purpose of this thesis is to study the available educational metadata standards and to extend the available metadata sets of digital repositories in order to include and support metadata for education purposes. A main feature of most educational repositories is interoperability with other systems. Interoperability assures the cooperation of one repository with others by allowing the harvesting and using of digital objects stored in one place by other systems and services. For this reason, it is studied how educational metadata can be incorporated in a repository’s interoperability services, and mainly in the OAI-PMH service, which is supported by most repositories, but also in a new service named OAI-ORE. The implementation of these interoperability services is focused on the DSpace system. Finally, Semantic Web is the evolution of World Wide Web. In Semantic Web information is described by data, so this information gains meaning which gives the ability to machines to process this information which till now was meaningful only to humans. So, it is also studied how semantic interoperability can be achieved between repositories and specifically between repositories based on DSpace. This will give the ability to exchange information between systems. Although this information may come from different and heterogeneous sources, and although this information may be semantically unstructured, it can be associated and combined in order to discover new knowledge.

A arquitetura distributiva da Internet amplia as possibilidades de produção e transmissão de recursos educacionais livres (REL). Assim, a pesquisa focaliza a implantação de repositórios de recursos educacionais livres (RREL) em instituições públicas de ensino superior, de maneira a garantir a integridade, a qualidade e a disponibilidade desses recursos no ciberespaço. Nesta perspectiva, identificam-se os fatores intervenientes para consecução desse objetivo, a partir da perspectiva de professores conteudistas na modalidade EaD. Para tanto, adota-se a pesquisa qualitativa e como técnica de coleta de dados, a entrevista. Com base no conjunto de respostas dos professores investigados, a partir da técnica de análise de conteúdo, são elaboradas recomendações para implantação e expansão de RREL no ensino superior. Os resultados apontam que na dimensão governamental se deve:a) incentivar a adoção de licenças abertas para a elaboração de REL, b) fomentar investimentos públicos para o desenvolvimento de pesquisas nessa área c) alocar recursos financeiros de forma constante e crescente na implantação de infraestrutura tecnológica de ponta em nível nacional; na dimensão institucional é necessário: a)promover amplo debate,de modo a elaborar diretrizes para formulação de política com o objetivo de implantar RREL e b) desenvolver programas de incentivos e benefícios para progressão acadêmica do docente; na dimensão informacional a) incentivar o trabalho colaborativo com a constituição de equipe multidisciplinar e b) estimular a participação das bibliotecas universitárias na gestão dos conteúdos. Busca-se, assim, expandir os RREL de maneira compartilhada com vistas à inovação e ao aprimoramento da educação superior no país / The distributive architecture of Internet expands the possibilities for production and transmission of open educational resources (OER). Thusthe research focuses on the deployment of open content repositories (OCR) in public institutions of higher education in order toensure the integrity, quality and availability of these resources in cyberspace. In this perspective are identifiedthe intervenient factors which contribute to achieve that goal, from the approach of teachers who prepare educational content in distance learning mode. Therefore, we adopt a qualitative research and the interview, as data collection. Based on the set of responses from teachers, analyzed using the technique of content analysis,are prepared recommendations for implementation and expansion OCR in higher education. From the scope of government the results show following needs: a) to encourage the adoption of open licenses for the development of OER, b) to promote public investments for the development of research in this area and c) to invest in deploying computing infrastructure and adequate network at national level. ; on institutional dimension we pointed out: a)to promote broad discussion in order to develop guidelines for policy formulation to implementation of OCR and b) to develop incentive programs and benefits for teaching academic progression and on informational dimension we observed: a) to stimulate collaborative work with the establishment of a multidisciplinary team and b) to include universities libraries in content management .Thus the aim is to expand RREL in a shared view in order to innovate and improve the higher education in the country

A arquitetura distributiva da Internet amplia as possibilidades de produção e transmissão de recursos educacionais livres (REL). Assim, a pesquisa focaliza a implantação de repositórios de recursos educacionais livres (RREL) em instituições públicas de ensino superior, de maneira a garantir a integridade, a qualidade e a disponibilidade desses recursos no ciberespaço. Nesta perspectiva, identificam-se os fatores intervenientes para consecução desse objetivo, a partir da perspectiva de professores conteudistas na modalidade EaD. Para tanto, adota-se a pesquisa qualitativa e como técnica de coleta de dados, a entrevista. Com base no conjunto de respostas dos professores investigados, a partir da técnica de análise de conteúdo, são elaboradas recomendações para implantação e expansão de RREL no ensino superior. Os resultados apontam que na dimensão governamental se deve:a) incentivar a adoção de licenças abertas para a elaboração de REL, b) fomentar investimentos públicos para o desenvolvimento de pesquisas nessa área c) alocar recursos financeiros de forma constante e crescente na implantação de infraestrutura tecnológica de ponta em nível nacional; na dimensão institucional é necessário: a)promover amplo debate,de modo a elaborar diretrizes para formulação de política com o objetivo de implantar RREL e b) desenvolver programas de incentivos e benefícios para progressão acadêmica do docente; na dimensão informacional a) incentivar o trabalho colaborativo com a constituição de equipe multidisciplinar e b) estimular a participação das bibliotecas universitárias na gestão dos conteúdos. Busca-se, assim, expandir os RREL de maneira compartilhada com vistas à inovação e ao aprimoramento da educação superior no país / The distributive architecture of Internet expands the possibilities for production and transmission of open educational resources (OER). Thusthe research focuses on the deployment of open content repositories (OCR) in public institutions of higher education in order toensure the integrity, quality and availability of these resources in cyberspace. In this perspective are identifiedthe intervenient factors which contribute to achieve that goal, from the approach of teachers who prepare educational content in distance learning mode. Therefore, we adopt a qualitative research and the interview, as data collection. Based on the set of responses from teachers, analyzed using the technique of content analysis,are prepared recommendations for implementation and expansion OCR in higher education. From the scope of government the results show following needs: a) to encourage the adoption of open licenses for the development of OER, b) to promote public investments for the development of research in this area and c) to invest in deploying computing infrastructure and adequate network at national level. ; on institutional dimension we pointed out: a)to promote broad discussion in order to develop guidelines for policy formulation to implementation of OCR and b) to develop incentive programs and benefits for teaching academic progression and on informational dimension we observed: a) to stimulate collaborative work with the establishment of a multidisciplinary team and b) to include universities libraries in content management .Thus the aim is to expand RREL in a shared view in order to innovate and improve the higher education in the country

Open access institutional repositories (OA IRs) are electronic systems that capture, preserve, and provide access to the scholarly digital work of an institution. As a new channel of scholarly communications IRs offer faculty a new way to disseminate their work to a wider audience, which in turn can increase the visibility to their work and impact factors, and at the same time increase institutions prestige and value. However, despite the increased popularity of IRs in numbers, research shows that IRs remain thinly populated in large part due to faculty reluctance to participate. There have been studies on the topic of open access repositories with the focus on external factors (social or technological context) that affect faculty attitudes towards participation in IRs, and there is a lack of understanding of the internal factors and the psychology of the reluctance. The goal of this mix method study was to identify the overall factors that affect faculty attitudes towards participation in IRs and examine the extent to which these factors influenced faculty willingness to participate in IRs. First, from literature review and the Model of Factors Affecting Faculty Self-Archiving this study identified eleven factors that influenced faculty members' intention to participate in OA repositories. Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) postulated that faculty intention to participate in IR was determined by three categories of factors: five attitudinal, four external (social) and two individual factors. Within the framework of the TPB this study (1) confirmed the measurement scale for each factor using principal component analysis, (2) it examined the influence that each factor had on the faculty likelihood to participate in IR using logistic regression, and (3) it weighted the relative importance of each factor on faculty intent to participate, utilizing relative weight analysis. Quantitative analysis revealed that four out of 11 factors proved to be statistically significant in faculty members' intention to participate in IRs; difficulty with the submission process, discoverability access and readership, altruism, and faculty perception of IRs as low-quality publishing venues. While qualitative analysis revealed that more than half of the faculty remain unfamiliar with OA and its goals, and while they supported the principles of OA, they also had a myriad of concerns regarding participation in IRs.

The diploma thesis focuses on subject description unification methods in records aggregated from different sources in digital repositories, using the example of the National Repository of Grey Literature (NRGL). After presenting experiences with systems BASE and LASSO abroad, I describe the current situation in NRGL, where the automatic indexing is used to assign each record a unified subject heading from the Polythematic Structured Subject Heading System (PSSHS). The thesis then presents how the MeSH thesaurus and Conspectus categorization scheme were mapped to PSSHS. These mappings were then applied to records from the National Medical Library. The aim of the experiment was to compare the subject description consisting of PSSHS subject headings created by automatic indexing, and the subject description created by mapping. In addition to that I explore the possibilities of mapping author keywords in records of academic theses. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)