Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Roza1.pdf: 518176 bytes, checksum: 2043e6ae4a14356170c4156d144d75c1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-02-24 / A study on processes and techniques regarding the production and dissemination of information, which lie beneath the practices concerned with information and knowledge management within organizations. Therefore, a general process involving the production and dissemination of information is presented; the role played by information technology as well as human and social aspects involved are investigated . all under the focus of the generation of knowledge within the organizational environment. For testing and validating the theoretical construct, an empirical investigation is performed through interviews involving professionals working for organization units, the end-activities of which are directly related to the production and dissemination of information. As a result, it is concluded that technology must be envisaged as a support instrument and that both individuals and their social relations must play a main role in conceiving the process of production and dissemination of information within organizations. / Estudo sobre processos e t?cnicas de produ??o e dissemina??o de informa??o que se encontram subjacentes ?s pr?ticas de gest?o da informa??o e do conhecimento nas organiza??es. Para tanto, apresenta-se um processo gen?rico de produ??o e dissemina??o de informa??o; o papel desempenhado pela tecnologia da informa??o, bem como os aspectos humanos e sociais envolvidos s?o investigados, tendo em vista a gera??o de conhecimento no ?mbito organizacional. Para teste e valida??o da constru??o te?rica, realiza-se uma investiga??o emp?rica por meio de entrevistas envolvendo profissionais de unidades organizacionais cujas atividades-fim relacionam-se diretamente ? produ??o e ? dissemina??o de informa??o. Como resultado, conclui-se que a tecnologia deve ser vista como um instrumento de apoio e que os indiv?duos e suas rela??es sociais devem ter import?ncia central na concep??o do processo de produ??o e dissemina??o de informa??o nas organiza??es.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oscar Eliel.pdf: 860740 bytes, checksum: 165b1d9c1ba79aeff3bac17ab6362114 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-06-01 / The main objective of this present research is to introduce a thematic referencial carthography from the Brazilian Information Science and as the main point the analyses of the theoretician field. The top objectives for the these analyses are about introducing the field proposal as its origin, its finality and its object; the topics studied about the Brazilian Information Science will be presented as a carthography and survey about the this brazilian study at the period of 1986 to 2005. This survey refer to the articles publiched by the Revista da Escola de Biblioteconomia da UFMG and Perspectivas em Ci?ncia da Informa??o, Transinforma??o e DataGramaZero: Revista de Ci?ncia da Informa??o. This research is just exploration study and every presented data will able to be used at the new research. The analysis from the datas were done with cientometrics techniques. It conclude that even this studied themes have demonstrated preoccupation with theoritic, conceptual and epistemological aspect are not satisfactory to guarantee a stabilization to the Information Science / A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo principal apresentar a cartografia tem?tica referencial da Ci?ncia da Informa??o no Brasil, tendo como foco a an?lise do campo te?rico. Os objetivos espec?ficos s?o: apresentar a proposi??o do campo: origem, finalidade e objeto; apresentar uma cartografia dos assuntos estudados da Ci?ncia da Informa??o no Brasil; levantar quais as tend?ncias tem?ticas nos peri?dicos da ?rea no Brasil no per?odo de 1986 a 2005. O objeto emp?rico da pesquisa constitui-se dos artigos publicados no per?odo de 1986 a 2005 nos seguintes peri?dicos cient?ficos da ?rea: Ci?ncia da Informa??o, Revista da Escola de Biblioteconomia da UFMG, Perspectivas em Ci?ncia da Informa??o, Transinforma??o e DataGramaZero - Revista de Ci?ncia da Informa??o. A pesquisa ? de natureza explorat?ria, tendo em vista que os dados apresentados poder?o ser ?teis na formula??o de novas hip?teses de pesquisa. A an?lise dos dados foi realizada a partir de t?cnicas cientom?tricas. Conclui-se que, apesar da ?rea demonstrar preocupa??o com seus aspectos te?ricos, conceituais e epistemol?gicos, os estudos existentes parecem ainda n?o serem suficientes para garantir a solidifica??o cient?fica da Ci?ncia da Informa??o

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-04T11:45:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tiago_Nascimento_Borges.pdf: 1836849 bytes, checksum: 11dc832962efd7e5e9ab2cacbdb1fb42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-12-20 / The purpose of this study is to describe qualitatively some of those aspects concerning Accounting Information System Management taking into consideration the necessary and constant performance improvement as well as the reduction of failures in these systems. Initially, based on specific bibliography research, it is discussed the foundations of the Accounting Information Systems and highlighted the management characteristics of such systems, standing out their significances and limitations. After that, it is suggested the usage of a methodology in order to guarantee the taken decisions of accounting professionals are encapsulated not only in financial factors - but also in technological, human and material resources. Next, a survey is carried out among the accountants to investigate their performance while managing accounting information systems. Technological resource improvement is the topical item pointed out by those professionals as responsible for the increase of demands on the usage of information generated by such systems and consequently reduction of failures in the usage of accounting information systems. Despite the fact that Failure Indicators are used to monitoring the reduction of failures, the same quantitative control is not applied to the usage of information. / O prop??sito deste estudo explorat??rio ?? descrever qualitativamente alguns aspectos da Gest??o de Sistemas de Informa????es Cont??beis considerando a necessidade de constante aumento de desempenho e de redu????o de falhas nestes sistemas. Inicialmente s??o discutidos, a partir da pesquisa bibliogr??fica, os fundamentos dos Sistemas de Informa????es Cont??beis e destacadas as caracter??sticas da Gest??o destes sistemas, ressaltando suas import??ncias e limita????es. A seguir, ?? sugerida a utiliza????o de uma metodologia para que as decis??es dos profissionais cont??beis estejam encapsuladas n??o apenas em fatores financeiros - mas tamb??m em tecnol??gicos, humanos e materiais. Posteriormente ?? realizada uma pesquisa de campo junto a Contadores para se investigar a atua????o destes profissionais na gest??o dos Sistemas de Informa????es Cont??beis. O aprimoramento dos recursos tecnol??gicos ?? o principal item apontado pelos profissionais como respons??vel pelo aumento na demanda da utiliza????o das informa????es geradas pelos sistemas e conseq??ente redu????o dos erros na utiliza????o dos Sistemas de Informa????es Cont??beis. Contudo, embora ocorra a utiliza????o de Indicadores de Falhas para monitorar a redu????o de erros, o mesmo controle quantitativo n??o ?? verificado na utiliza????o das informa????es.

Submitted by Elba Lopes (elba.lopes@fecap.br) on 2016-05-04T20:57:57Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Rubens_Santanna_Junior.pdf: 651868 bytes, checksum: 37ccb1fbac0e554051327465270028f3 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-04T20:57:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Rubens_Santanna_Junior.pdf: 651868 bytes, checksum: 37ccb1fbac0e554051327465270028f3 (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-30 / We examine with an empirical study the hypothesis that the IT Deployment Capabilities impacts are positively associated with competitive advantage in Brazilian companies. The study uses the conceptual research model proposed by Tian et al. (2009). As part of this study, some of the main theoretical concepts of Resource Based View are reviewed, establishing a link between these concepts and the explanation about competitive advantage. The three constructs that set up the IT Deployment Capabilities are identified and investigated: Strategic Flexibility Partnership Business and Business Alignment. This is a descriptive exploratory research with a quantitative approach. The data collection instrument answered by the employees was a survey with a 7-point Likert scale available through Electronic Link on the Internet, using the website Survey Monkey. The study used public or private companies, national or international companies headquartered in Brazil as criteria for population, within various segments, and sample included the following functions: CEOs and Directors, Managers and Coordinators working at Information Technology areas in their companies. 320 e-mails were sent, yielding 192 responses. Of these 108 were selected as surveys with the desired research profile. To provide validation to the study, a statistical tool validation was used performing exploratory factor analysis tests (FAT) and multiple linear regression (MLR). The results showed that the constructs Strategic Flexibility and Business Partnership are positively associated with the perception of the impact of information technology competitive advantage, while the construct Business Alignment had no significant results to corroborate the studies by Tian et al. (2009) in Chinese companies. / O principal objetivo deste trabalho ?? examinar, com um estudo emp??rico, se os impactos da Capacidade Implanta????o-TI est??o positivamente associados ?? vantagem competitiva nas empresas brasileiras. O estudo utiliza o modelo conceitual de pesquisa proposto por Tian et al. (2009). Como partes deste estudo s??o revistos, dentre eles alguns dos principais conceitos te??ricos da Vis??o Baseada em Recursos, estabelece-se um elo entre esses conceitos e a explica????o da vantagem competitiva, identificando-se e investigando-se os tr??s constructos que comp??em a Capacidade Implanta????o-TI: Flexibilidade Estrat??gica, Parceria de Neg??cio e Alinhamento do Neg??cio. Trata-se de uma pesquisa explorat??ria descritiva, com uma abordagem quantitativa. O instrumento de coleta de dados empregado foi um Survey, utilizando-se a escala Likert com 7 pontos de Link eletr??nico, dispon??vel na Internet atrav??s do site Monkey Survey. O estudo utilizou como crit??rio de popula????o empresas nacionais ou internacionais sediadas no Brasil, de capital aberto ou fechado, e seus diversos segmentos, sendo que a amostra envolveu as fun????es de: CEOs, Diretores, Gerentes e Coordenadores que estavam ligados ?? ??rea de Tecnologia da Informa????o nas empresas onde colaboram. Foram enviados 320 e-mails, obtendo-se 192 respostas. Desse total, foram selecionadas 108 respostas com o perfil desejado da pesquisa. Para proporcionar garantia ao estudo, foi utilizado o instrumento estat??stico de valida????o, no qual foram realizados os testes de an??lise fatorial explorat??ria (AFE) e regress??es lineares m??ltiplas (RLM). Os resultados mostraram que os constructos Flexibilidade Estrat??gica e Parceria de Neg??cio est??o positivamente associados ?? percep????o dos impactos da Tecnologia da Informa????o na vantagem competitiva, enquanto o constructo Alinhamento do Neg??cio n??o apresentou resultados significativos, corroborando os estudos realizados por Tian et al. (2009) nas empresas chinesas.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabio_Mascarenhas.pdf: 847207 bytes, checksum: 01b83dae6521c13d3e8695d32992b879 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-02-25 / Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas / Research on the functions of hypertext in the informational flow in the electronic media. One first argues the concept of information in the areas of the Mathematics, Semiotics and Communication. They are presented, after that, the concepts of hypertext, one is traced retrospect historical considering it a mobilizador device of the knowledge, proceeding from the evaluative process of register and dissemination of knowing, its importance is approached to relate the users and the supplies of knowledge, and is analyzed it scientific production of the Science of the Information on hypertext during the understood period enters the years of 1990 the 2002. It has been struggled viability of use of the pertextuais resources in the processes of the information and is concluded presenting resulted and. / Pesquisa sobre as fun??es do hipertexto no fluxo informacional em meio eletr?nico. Discute-se primeiramente o conceito de informa??o nas ?reas da Matem?tica, Semi?tica e Comunica??o. Apresentam-se, em seguida, os conceitos de hipertexto, tra?a-se um retrospecto hist?rico considerando-o um dispositivo mobilizador do conhecimento, proveniente do processo evolutivo de registro e dissemina??o do saber, aborda-se sua import?ncia para relacionar os usu?rios e os estoques de conhecimento, e analisa-se a produ??o cient?fica da Ci?ncia da Informa??o sobre o hipertexto durante o per?odo compreendido entre os anos de 1990 a 2002. Debate-se a viabilidade de uso dos recursos hipertextuais nos processos da informa??o e conclui-se apresentando resultados e sugerindo linha de estudos futuros.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paulo Cesar Elias 1.pdf: 1821568 bytes, checksum: 9d61b151033c83537db955df32b97e0e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-04 / The contemporary society shows increasingly the necessity of the individual in having the control of the selection, processing, communication and use of the information. The computerization of the society is well-known and increasing, mediated mainly for the new technologies capable to establish links in different and distant geographic spaces, converging with a great amount of information in the most diverse areas of intelligence human being, either the cultural, enterprise, political and governmental use, or even for entertainment. On the other hand, this new society also reveals a great inequality between those who has access to the new technologies of the information and its great nets and those who doesn t have any access of physical or cognitive information, instituting the ones called excluded. Because the technological transformations occurred since the effective implementation of the Internet, new forms of organization and production of software appear, highlighting nowadays , the movement of free software and the current speeches telling us that it would establish itself as a liberating character in the sharing of information and knowledge, able to act as a new tool of digital inclusion. This study verifies the condition of veracity of this hypothesis, carrying out a theoretical research based in the Science of the Information and the discussions of the political economy of the information, investigating the current configuration of the society before the new technologies and the role that free software has been playing as a tool of digital inclusion. / A sociedade contempor?nea mostra cada vez mais a necessidade de o indiv?duo ter controle do processo de sele??o, processamento, comunica??o e uso das informa??es. A informatiza??o da sociedade ? not?ria e crescente, mediada principalmente pelas novas tecnologias, capazes de estabelecer elos em diferentes e distantes espa?os geogr?ficos, convergindo com uma grande quantidade de informa??es nas mais diversas ?reas da intelig?ncia humana, seja para o uso cultural, empresarial, pol?tico e governamental ou mesmo de entretenimento. Em contrapartida, esta nova sociedade revela tamb?m uma grande desigualdade entre os que possuem condi??es de acesso ?s novas tecnologias da informa??o, e as grandes redes de informa??o, dos que n?o possuem acesso algum, f?sico ou cognitivo, instituindo os chamados exclu?dos. Frente ?s transforma??es tecnol?gicas, ocorridas a partir da implementa??o efetiva da Internet, surgem novas formas de organiza??o e produ??o de software, tendo como destaque no cen?rio atual o movimento de software livre e os discursos existentes de que ele se estabeleceria com um car?ter libertador no compartilhamento de informa??o e conhecimento, podendo atuar como uma nova ferramenta de inclus?o digital. Este estudo verifica a condi??o de veracidade dessa hip?tese, realizando uma pesquisa te?rica alicer?ada na Ci?ncia da Informa??o e nas discuss?es da economia pol?tica da informa??o, investigando a atual configura??o da sociedade diante das novas tecnologias e o papel que o software livre vem desempenhando como ferramenta de inclus?o digital.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Calixto Silva Neto 1.pdf: 2800121 bytes, checksum: 5ac0686f78e5828008716ac22f09a175 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-11-17 / This study aims at the analysis of the human-computer interaction within the scope of digital inclusion, through the perspective of Information Science by performing a reflection on the Brazilian Government Program for Digital Inclusion. The human-computer interaction is discussed as a component of the process of dissemination and recovery of information through computers, as well as whether digital inclusion is agreeable to endusers, and if proximity of the areas of Computing and Information Science is provided. Information Science and humancomputer interaction are presented through their stories, objectives, evolution and justification. Several variables implied therein are discussed such as the computer, software, memory, metaphors, mental model and digital inclusion. Research, conducted through data search and a questionnaire, aimed at assessing results of the Brazilian Government Program of Digital Inclusion in Elementary Schools. / Estudo sobre an?lise do papel da Intera??o Humano- Computador na inclus?o digital, pela perspectiva da Ci?ncia da Informa??o, fazendo uma reflex?o do Programa de Inclus?o Digital do Governo Brasileiro. Discute a Intera??o Humano- Computador como uma componente do processo de dissemina??o e recupera??o da informa??o, por meio de computadores, analisando se a inclus?o digital ocorre com agradabilidade aos usu?rios a ela destinados, e promove uma aproxima??o entre as ?reas da Computa??o e da Ci?ncia da informa??o. Apresenta a Ci?ncia da Informa??o e a Intera??o HumanoComputador com suas hist?rias, objetivos, evolu??o e justificativas. Discorre sobre as diversas vari?veis implicadas no caso, como o computador, softwares , mem?ria, met?foras, modelo mental e a inclus?o digital. Pesquisa, por meio de levantamento de dados e question?rio, para investigar em escolas de Ensino Fundamental alguns dos resultados do Programa de Inclus?o Digital do Governo Brasileiro.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mateus Pereira Dias.pdf: 6665392 bytes, checksum: e3195a7b8b0ea5d32fc6d23b9a2831fc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-05-24 / Digitally filed information is presented to its users in several different ways, thanks to computer resources available now. Under this context, the availability of information as images and graphics was increased to enable user s comprehension about something unknown. One field that has been concerned with this subject is the Visualization of Information, which aim is to potentialize the appropriation of information to the user by means of graphic resources known as Visualization of Information Structures. This work aims to study the behavior of such available structures for an efficient use by the Information Science. It initially offers an analysis of the technical referential about the Visualization of Information area, showing its structures, features and reflexes on the cognitive systems of its users. Finally, the most used types of Visualization of Information and the suggestions to their use at Information Science are presented in a detailed way / As informa??es armazenadas em meios digitais s?o apresentadas aos seus usu?rios de diversas formas, gra?as aos recursos computacionais dispon?veis na atualidade. Sob esse contexto, ampliou-se a disponibiliza??o de informa??es na forma de imagens e gr?ficos, com o objetivo de facilitar a compreens?o do usu?rio sobre algum conhecimento. Uma ?rea que tem se preocupado com esse assunto ? a da Visualiza??o da Informa??o, cujo fim ? o de potencializar a apropria??o de informa??o ao usu?rio, por meio de recursos gr?ficos conhecidos como Estruturas de Visualiza??o de Informa??o. Este trabalho visa a estudar o comportamento de tais estruturas dispon?veis para a utiliza??o eficiente pela Ci?ncia da Informa??o. Inicialmente, oferece uma an?lise do referencial te?rico sobre a ?rea da Visualiza??o da Informa??o, apresenta suas estruturas, caracter?sticas e reflexos no sistema cognitivo dos seus usu?rios. Finalmente, s?o apresentados, de forma detalhada, os tipos de estruturas de Visualiza??o de Informa??es mais utilizados e as sugest?es para o uso de cada um deles para a Ci?ncia da Informa??o

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leiva Nunes.pdf: 403940 bytes, checksum: 08a12e3b692121cf143bf8b7ef89ceae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-12 / The theoretical basis to build on this research was the discussion of the concepts, paradigms and pertinent approaches to the classification areas in Biblioteconomics, specially concerning to the information classification and organization, considering the changing of the heritage paradigm and the information paradigm, as well as the behavior of the bibliographical classification enlighten by the connection to the access to the documents. Recurring to the inductive hypothetical method, to the exploratory and historical research, and to the documental analysis, it has been tried to find the necessary explanations that interconnects themselves and should be further and deeper investigated and understood. The bibliographical classification, as a study topic, encircle from the most incipient phase of the scientific research, in which there is the heritage as the identification of the problem to be studied to the moment that the produced knowledge is absorbed and internalized as an access to the human knowledge. Identify relations and differences between taxonomies and classification schemes and thesauri. To analyze the access approaching the language as a preponderant factor, its possibilities, its differential and it contribution to the Information Science and its institutionalization. / A base te?rica para o fundamento desta pesquisa foi a discuss?o dos conceitos, paradigmas e abordagens pertinentes ?s ?reas de classifica??o em Biblioteconomia, especialmente, quanto ? classifica??o e ? organiza??o da informa??o, ao levar em considera??o a altera??o do paradigma do acervo para o paradigma da informa??o, bem como o comportamento da classifica??o bibliogr?fica ? luz de liga??o de acesso aos documentos. Ao recorrer-se ao m?todo hipot?tico indutivo, ? pesquisa explorat?ria e hist?rica e ? an?lise document?ria, buscaram-se as explica??es necess?rias que se interrelacionam e que devem ser mais bem investigadas e compreendidas. A classifica??o bibliogr?fica, como t?pico de estudos, abrange desde a fase mais incipiente da pesquisa cientifica, quando temos o acervo como a identifica??o do problema a ser estudado at? o momento em que o conhecimento produzido ? absorvido e internalizado como acesso ao saber humano. Identifica rela??es e diferen?as entre taxonomias, esquemas de classifica??o e tesauros. Analisa o acesso com abordagem ? linguagem, como fator preponderante, e o que possibilita, qual o diferencial dele e em que contribui para a Ci?ncia da Informa??o e a institucionaliza??o da mesma.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:36:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MURILO ARTUR ARAUJO DA SILVEIRA.pdf: 2536419 bytes, checksum: aeefa6f039550180e37ba5aa411253a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-02-11 / Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas / This dissertation studies the scientific research institutionalization of the Information Science in Brazil through the Ci?ncia da Informa??o journal. The general objective of this research is to investigate the social and cognitive institutionalization of the Information Science based on the scientific articles written in the Ci?ncia da Informa??o journal online, from 1995 to 2005, with the purpose to supply scientific indicators to a better understanding of the area. The specific objectives are: to chart the scientific texts network developed through the Ci?ncia da Informa??o journal, from the articles and their citations; and to distinct the thematic tendencies and the research front in Information Science, referring to scientific articles of the Ci?ncia da Informa??o journal. To debate the differences and the relations between constitution and institutionalization of the scientific discipline, the conceptual and social operations of this constitution, and the cognitive and social perspectives of the science institutionalization. It presents a theoric board of references in Information Science, focusing the object of study, the theoric basis, the characteristics, the interdisciplinary relations and the polemic and controversial issues, from texts that are very important to the area. It reviews the specific literature about the production, dissemination and use cycle of the information, distincting the scientific ethos, the scientific journal and its function, characteristics and evaluation process, and the scientific article and its functions and categorizations. It also approaches the citation and the relations of the scientific knowledge construction, as well as the finality of the citation studies and the scientific texts network that is visualized through the citation and references mechanisms. It uses the scienciometric method and the citation analysis, the subject analysis and the cartographic representations as techniques. It constitutes a descriptive and exploratory research according to its objective and methodological procedures for the bibliographical. The research s main results are: thematic tendencies are directed to the information management, mediation, circulation and use of information, and evaluation of the scientific production; the concentration of books and articles as sources of citations and gradual growth of the Internet webpage, each year; and the distinction of the more citation authors by thematic field, through ANCIB s work groups. It reveals that from the scientific article and its citations it is possible to obtain satisfactory results about the scientific texts network development, the thematic tendencies and the contribution of the scientific authors, as well to visualize the scientific activity institutionalization level. Therefore, its affirms that, from the Ci?ncia da Informa??o journal, the Information Science in Brazil meets in institutionalization ways. / An?lise da institucionaliza??o da pesquisa cient?fica da Ci?ncia da Informa??o no Brasil atrav?s do peri?dico Ci?ncia da Informa??o. O objetivo geral da pesquisa ? investigar a institucionaliza??o social e cognitiva da Ci?ncia da Informa??o com base nos artigos cient?ficos do peri?dico Ci?ncia da Informa??o em meio eletr?nico, no per?odo de 1995 a 2005, com o prop?sito de fornecer indicadores cient?ficos para compreens?o da ?rea. T?m-se como objetivos espec?ficos: mapear a rede de textos cient?ficos formada atrav?s do peri?dico Ci?ncia da Informa??o, a partir dos artigos de peri?dicos e suas cita??es; e destacar as tend?ncias tem?ticas e a frente de pesquisa em Ci?ncia da Informa??o, referente aos artigos cient?ficos do peri?dico Ci?ncia da Informa??o. Discute as diferen?as e rela??es entre constitui??o e institucionaliza??o de uma disciplina cient?fica, as opera??es conceituais e sociais da constitui??o e as perspectivas cognitiva e social de institucionaliza??o de uma ci?ncia. Apresenta um quadro te?rico de refer?ncias da Ci?ncia da Informa??o, enfocando o objeto de estudo, as bases hist?ricas, as caracter?sticas, as rela??es interdisciplinares e as quest?es pol?micas e controversas, a partir de textos importantes para a ?rea. Revisa a literatura espec?fica sobre o ciclo de produ??o, dissemina??o e uso da informa??o, dando destaque ao etos cient?fico; ao peri?dico cient?fico e suas fun??es, caracter?sticas e processo de avalia??o; e ao artigo cient?fico e suas fun??es e categoriza??es. Aborda a cita??o e as rela??es com a constru??o do conhecimento cient?fico, como tamb?m a finalidade dos estudos de cita??o e a rede de textos cient?ficos que se visualiza atrav?s dos mecanismos de cita??o e refer?ncia. Utiliza o m?todo cienciom?trico e a an?lise de cita??o, a an?lise de assunto e as representa??es cartogr?ficas como t?cnicas. Constitui-se como pesquisa descritiva e explorat?ria segundo seus objetivos e, segundo os procedimentos metodol?gicos pela bibliogr?fica. Os principais resultados da pesquisa s?o: tend?ncias tem?ticas voltadas para gest?o da informa??o, media??o, circula??o e uso da informa??o e avalia??o da produ??o cient?fica; concentra??o de artigos e livros como fontes citadas e o crescimento gradual da p?gina de Internet, a cada ano; e destaque para os autores mais citados por recortes tem?ticos do campo, atrav?s dos grupos de trabalho da ANCIB. Revela-se que do artigo cient?fico e suas cita??es ? poss?vel obter resultados satisfat?rios sobre a forma??o de redes de textos cient?ficos, as tend?ncias tem?ticas e as contribui??es dos atores cient?ficos, assim como visualizar o grau de institucionaliza??o da atividade cient?fica de uma ci?ncia. Portanto, afirma-se que, a partir do peri?dico Ci?ncia da Informa??o, a Ci?ncia da Informa??o no Brasil encontra-se em vias de institucionaliza??o.