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- Learning with the school library: multi-literacies and collaborationPublication . Costa, Magda; Novo, AnaThis article presents a research process framed in an action-research model, in the context of collaborative work, for which training was designed. Its objective was to put into practice the learning framework associated with the work of school libraries in Basic Education. With it, we tried to build and implement work tools that support teachers and students in the development of information literacy, in the construction of metacognitive strategies and, consequently, in the construction of autonomy processes, under the responsibility of a teacher librarian.
- Recursos Educacionais Abertos nos Repositórios RCAAP: panorama atualPublication . Carvalho, Madalena; Bastos, GlóriaO trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a forma como os Recursos Educacionais Abertos são apresentados nos repositórios institucionais portugueses representados no diretório RCAAP - Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal. A investigação seguiu uma abordagem exploratória-descritiva, com enfoque quantitativo e qualitativo de modo a retratar os cenários evidenciados pelos repositórios portugueses. Partindo dos referenciais teóricos sobre a temática, nomeadamente as recomendações da UNESCO, foi efetuada uma análise que permitiu: 1 - Identificar os repositórios com documentos classificados como “Recurso Educacional”; 2 - Percepcionar a diversidade de abordagens e de critérios relativas ao licenciamento, à organização e ao acesso aos conteúdos; 3 - Avaliar o nível de compromisso para com o cumprimento das diretrizes definidas pela UNESCO para os Recursos Educacionais Abertos.
- Access to Open Educational Resources during the Pandemic: the case of the OER Community in the Portuguese Open University RepositoryPublication . Bastos, Glória; Carvalho, Madalena; Novo, AnaThe COVID-19 pandemic that affected the world in 2020 and 2021, imposed important changes in teaching and learning processes in many institutions, notably in Higher Education. During this period teachers and students had to access online quality resources which increased the importance of Open Educational Resources (OER). Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University) is the only university, in the Portuguese higher education context, that includes in its institutional repository an autonomous OER community. It was considered of particular interest to analyse access to resources made available in the OER community during the pandemic, verifying whether this scenario had an influence on access and download numbers. Results show that the number of OER archived in the repositories has been growing, but the most relevant difference is between years 2018 and 2019. During the analyzed two years of the pandemic (2020 and 2021) the number of new deposits had remain stable, but the number of these resources’ downloads is very significant showing an increase during the pandemic period. We conclude that this increase in use should be considered a valid argument to justify more internal actions to support the strengthening of the OER collection at the UAb, especially in the scientific areas with fewer deposits.
- Behavioral trends in the use of printed book or e-book: a case study in Portuguese university librariesPublication . Baptista, Luiza; Sanches, Tatiana; Sá, Isabel; Cruz, Célia; Novo, AnaThis study analyses the behavioural trends in the use of scientific information from printed books and e-books and the way university libraries users choose to use it. To this end, a survey was conducted on a sample of users from various Portuguese higher education schools. The first part focused on the characterization of respondents, which includes data on gender, area of knowledge and academic level attended. In the second part we sought the opinion about advantages and disadvantages of each medium, frequency of use, choice of medium according to the purpose of reading, devices used and acquisition suggestions for the library. The results allow us to observe the factors that influence and affect the behaviours of users regarding their choice. Studies such as this help to support the decision in choosing the information resources to be purchased taking into account user preferences, but also to outline strategies for promoting the use of various media that, rather than competitors, should be complementary.