Researches with archival themes in information science in Brazil: mapping of mains trends

Abstract

This work presents part of the results of a doctor degree dissertation’s research, whose goal is to identify the dialogues between global and Brazilian Archival Sciences, from the international trends present in the development of this field in Brazil. This way, it maps, in the dissertations and theses with Archival Science themes produced in several post-graduate programmes in Information Science, the following: Archival Science’s bibliographic references, the authors and works that directly concern the field, their countries of institutional origin, and their time and language of publication. The research universe hereby presented comprehends fifty dissertations and theses developed in eight Information Science post-graduate programmes from Brazilian universities, identified in CAPES’s Theses Database. From the analyses on Archival Science’s bibliographic references in these researches, we observed the following: a concentration of Information Science post-graduate programmes in the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and in the University of Brasília (UnB); and the predominance of their publication in Brazil in the 1990s and in Portuguese (including translations). There is a close tie between the total number of international and national authors mapped, although the latter slightly outnumbers the former. The thirty highest frequencies of Archival Science’s bibliographic references by author corroborate this result, pointing out the prevalence of Brazilian and Canadian authors. The thirty highest frequencies of works cited also related, in its majority, to Brazilian authors. The mapping of these indicators, in a crossed analysis, reflects the movements of international trends in dialogue with Brazilian Archival Science, which, however having a hybrid regulation due to these trends, already presents a consolidated scientific production, strongly communicated from the references to Brazilian authors and works cited in dissertations and theses with themes in this field.