A interoperabilidade entre os OPAC e os repositórios institucionais nas universidades públicas portuguesas e espanholas

Resumen

The requirements of new social structures, the changes in production and consumption of scientific publications and the new and complex development contexts of teaching and research necessitate not only the spread, but especially the exchange of information through various resources. It is in this context that interoperability between OPAC and institutional repositories becomes important and effective, contributing to the sharing of information and knowledge in universities. Technically, interoperability is achieved by connecting these two resources enabling the document deposited in one of them to be located and consulted in both. The aim of this paper is to check the interoperability between OPAC and institutional repositories in Portuguese and Spanish public universities, if any, and to know how it operates at technical level. It was adopted a qualitative methodology in which we focused on: direct observation and comparative analysis. The main results indicate that most of the observed institutions (58,73%) promotes interoperability between these two resources by field 856 of the MARC format. Given its interest it is recommended to institutions that do not yet use this field (41,26%) to take it into account given its benefits to the user. As main conclusion it was observed that the effective interoperability is incomplete. OPACs refers the user resource handles the repository, but the reverse is not the case, so it is recommended to implement the reverse policy. Considering the visibility that national repositories play in the dissemination and access to scientific production it is recommended the aggregation of institutional repositories to them in those specific cases (Spain, 9,52%) where this does not happen.