The electronic journal "Information & Sociedade: Estudos" - impacts on the context of communication

This paper analyzes the information impacts caused by the access and use of the electronic journal Informacao & Sociedade: Estudos. A questionnaire, sent to readers peer-reviewers and authors by e-mail in March 2006, was used to collect the research data. The positive impacts mentioned were: more agility in the access, in the use, retrieval and information diffusion; decreased number of physical visits to libraries; increase in intellectual productivity. The negative impacts were: journal site not accessible; difficulties in information retrieval due to errors in subject analyses and journal design.