Produção sobre necessidades de informação: em foco Informação & Sociedade: Estudos

Abstract

Documentary research that proposes to map and analyze the presence of the issue about information needs in the journal Informação & Sociedade: estudos, within the years 2002 - 2011. A total of 348 productions were identified. Among this number, 26 are concerned with information user subject, and within such, seven ones are related to information needs. Once determined the study object production, the variables were established as well as classified in four categories. The analyzed production, individual and/or in collaboration, is a Brazilian authorship, comes from universities and focuses on studies whose methodological models rely on the alternative approach of user studies. The research has brought some depth to studies both on information needs and on the journal Informação & Sociedade: estudos.