Elementos estruturantes para a elaboração de política de direito autoral para repositórios institucionais de acesso aberto

The study presents structural elements of copyright policy to be adopted by universities and research institutes, regarding digital institutional repositories. It also discusses, as its theoretical basis, issues related to scientific communication, open access and institutional digital repositories, as well as the copyright concepts, definitions, legislation and national and international regulations. The study methodology uses a qualitative approach through procedures based on three text analysis techniques, namely, condensation, categorization and interpretation. Such procedures were applied for analysis of literature texts, repositories and interviews sites. To do so, the recent relevant literature on copyright, plus aspects related to the context of the open access were analyzed. The study also analyzed information obtained from the websites of Brazilian universities repositories with record in ROARMAP. Finally, results obtained were analyzed through interviews with institutional repositories managers in Brazil, in the United States and in Portugal, and another specialist in the matter. It sets thereby character descriptive analytical work. It presents, in this context, innovative approach in that includes a question not considered in other works’ discussions, as the matter and study of Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) theory to illustrate the influence of political coalitions in the advance of the Open Access Movement to scientific literature. It also sets a multiple case study enriched by comparison with the literature, which allowed conclude the task with the presentation of elements that constitute appropriate copyright policy structure to be adopted by institutional repositories of universities and research institutes in Brazil.