%0 Journal Article %T Portal de peri¨®dicos da capes: uso por p¨®s-graduandos da faculdade de medicina %A Campos %A Thamara de Souza %A Damasceno %A Vinicius Oliveira %A Almeida %A Patr¨ªcia Casagrande Dias de %A Lamounier %A Joel Alves %J Revista Brasileira de Educa£¿£¿o M¨¦dica %D 2012 %I Associa??o Brasileira de Educa??o M¨¦dica %R 10.1590/S0100-55022012000100007 %X this study describes the use of the "capes periodicals portal" by the 258 students enrolled on graduate courses at the ufmg school of medicine, who received a survey response form by email. sixty-two (62) of them (27%) responded to the survey. regarding the use of the capes periodicals portal,, fifty-seven (57-91.9%)use it to conduct research, twenty-nine (46.8%) of whom on a weekly basis. 71% reported knowledge of the portal. with regards to the databases, fifty (50) students (80.7%) knew three to six databases, of which pubmed appeared in one hundred percent (100%) of the answers. regarding training courses offered by "capes", 71% had never participated in any and 88.7% reported interest in participation. these results demonstrate the frequent use of the "capes periodicals portal" by graduate students, as well as the need for ongoing training. %K capes electronic journal %K students graduate %K usability. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0100-55022012000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en