Abstract

PONS BLANCO, Maray  and  SANCHEZ TARRAGO, Nancy. Knowledges and practices associated with the copyright in information professionals of institutes and research centers from the health network of La Habana. ACIMED [online]. 2011, vol.22, n.2, pp.94-109. ISSN 1024-9435.

A descriptive study over March-June, 2010 was conducted to assess the knowledges and practices associated with the copyright of information professionals from institutes and research centers of the health network of La Habana. A questionnaire was administered to the professionals from 12 institutes and research centers. A focal group and an interview were made. The authors identified the knowledges on terms, relationships and implications of the copyright, as well as the correspondence among their knowledges and professional practices in the processes of development of collections, products designs, services provision and the information teaching. As main study results stood out the low level of professional's knowledges on terms, contents and copyright legislations, the implementation of some very frequent notions during the information teaching and the development of collections, as well as the recognition by involved in the study of their weakness and the need of overcoming of the same.

Keywords : Copyright; information professional knowledges professional; practices.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )