O Uso de revistas eletrónicas por professores / investigadores de uma Faculdade de Engenharia

Abstract

In this information era, where the field of information technology and communication prevail, scientific journals in electronic format are an information channel increasingly used by researchers, since they allow the comparison of results at an international level which makes possible to best develop Science. This research was mainly focused on the study of the use of electronic journals by teachers/researchers from Chemical and Informatics Departments of the Faculty of Engineering of Porto, Portugal. In this study a survey was used in order to characterize the levels of access of electronic journals by this community. Results show that there are different ways of seeking and using scientific information namely in terms of frequency of access, number of articles consulted, use of databases and preference of publishing mode.