ELECTRONIC JOURNAL INDEXERS IN THE AREAS OF ARCHIVELOGY, LIBRARY ECONOMY, INFORMATION SCIENCE AND MUSEOLOGY

Abstract

Electronic journal indexers play a fundamental role in the dissemination of information by providing informational control and optimizing quick and efficient access to retrieving relevant content. This research aims to bring together the most used indexers in Brazilian electronic publications in the areas of Archiving, Library Science, Information Science and Museology. In the process of methodological construction, this investigation is exploratory, descriptive and qualitative. After verifying the existence of a large number of electronic periodical publications in several national and international institutions, choosing Brazilian universities that offer courses in the areas of Archival Science, Library Science, Information Science and Museology. Twenty-four universities were researched and thirty journals in the aforementioned areas were retrieved from each institution's journal portal. Based on this collection, forty-four national and international indexes were described that cover the aforementioned areas. Thus, this research facilitates the dissemination of scientific knowledge and provides journal editors, librarians who work with the dissemination of information and researchers in general with the opportunity to gain knowledge of the main electronic indexers for the aforementioned areas. It can be concluded that indexers provide quality and academic relevance, allowing access, collaboration, measurement of information and visibility of the impact of publications.