%0 Journal Article %T Information behavior inside brazilian*s information science dissertations and thesis from 2007-2012: Literature review Comportamento informacional em teses e disserta es na ci那ncia da informa o no Brasil entre 2007-2012: revis o de literatura %A Vitor Taga %A Ursula Blattmann %J Biblios %D 2013 %I University Library System, University of Pittsburgh %R 10.5195/biblios.2012.52 %X Studies of information behavior have attracted interest from several areas of knowledge, including information science. We conducted an exhaustive documentary research into dissertations and thesis published in eleven brazilian Post-Graduate Programs in Information Science, from 2007 to april 2012. Were identified a total of 465 thesis and 157 thesis published in the respective period. By applying the choice of the following terms in the title and keywords: Informational Behavior; Information Seeking-Behavior; Information Needs; User Studies; Information Seeking; Information Access; Use of Information; Needs, Seeking, Access and Use of Information; Sense-Making; Decision Making; and Information Retrieval was obtained 88 thesis and 17 dissertations for analysis. The most occurred terms in the title were: Decision Making (11), Information Behavior (10) and Information Retrieval (10). It should be noted that in the keywords Information Retrieval (49) had the highest frequency of occurrence between terms, followed by User Studies (19), Information Behavior (15), Information Needs (12), Decision Making (10). The average between 2007 and 2010 was 19 published papers per year. The study identified the published work advisors and generate a graph which shows the central position of six advisors: Ricardo Barbosa (UFMG), Monica Nassif Erichsen Borges (UFMG), Murilo Bastos da Cunha (UNB), Emir Jose Suaiden ( UNB), Helen de Castro Silva Casarin (UNESP), Isa Maria Freire (UFF / UFPB). The information behavior theme appears with more frequently in the follow institutions: UFMG, UNB, UNESP and UFPB. The survey showed the continuity studies in this area and pointed out that approximately one fifth of thesis and 1/10 of dissertations studies cover this area in Brazil. Estudos sobre comportamento informacional t那m atra赤do o interesse de diversas 芍reas do conhecimento, entre elas a Ci那ncia da Informa o. Realizou-se uma pesquisa documental exaustiva em ambito brasileiro, das teses e disserta es apresentadas nos onze Programas de P車s-Gradua o de Ci那ncia da Informa o, defendidas no per赤odo de 2007 a abril de 2012. Foi identificado um total de 465 disserta es e 157 teses publicadas no respectivo per赤odo. Ao aplicar a escolha dos seguintes termos no t赤tulo e palavras-chave: Comportamento Informacional; Comportamento de Busca da Informa o; Necessidade de Informa o; Estudo de Usu芍rios; Busca da Informa o; Acesso 角 informa o; Uso da Informa o; Necessidade, Busca, Acesso e Uso da Informa o; Sense-Making; Tomada de decis o; e, Recupera o da Informa o obteve-se para a an %K Information behavior %K Information seeking-behavior %K Information seeking %K Use of information %K Information needs %K User studies %U http://biblios.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/biblios/article/view/52