The electronic journal 'Informa??o & Sociedade: Estudos' - impacts on the context of scientific communication

摘要

This paper analyzes the information impacts caused by the access and use of the electronic journal Informação & Sociedade: Estudos. A questionnaire, sent to readers peer-reviewers and authors by e-mail in March 2006, was used to collect the research data. The positive impacts mentioned were: more agility in the access, in the use, retrieval and information diffusion; decreased number of physical visits to libraries; increase in intellectual productivity. The negative impacts were: journal site not accessible; difficulties in information retrieval due to errors in subject analyses and journal design.