TY - GEN AU - Costa, Sely M.S. AU - Deusdará, Ana Paula TI - Brazilian open archives initiatives: the influence of ElPub Conferences and the role of IBICT PY - 2005/// CY - Leuven PB - Peeters Publishing KW - arquivos abertos N2 - There is a worldwide tendency towards an "open access philosophy" and the adoption of OAI facilities everywhere, including developing countries. We present a case study on how Brazilian academic institutions such as universities and research institutes have responded to this global movement owards OAI. This paper reports the results of the first phase of a three-year, cross-sectonal study into the growth of OAI systems in a developing country, Brazil UR - http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?_id=233elpub2005 ER -