Open access and social media: challenges and opportunities for information management

Gouveia, Luis Borges

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Gouveia, Luis Borges

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The availability of information that Internet brings, in particular, the World Wide Web, produced a huge impact in the way we collect and access information. This also impacts the strategies followed to organize and manage information. It is clear by now, that each individual, by its own and without adequate training is on trouble to manage its information, the information he or she needs and even to secure it. Recent developments provide a new context that wants to protect data from individuals and some sensitive information, putting a new focus not in the data possibilities but on the individual rights, such as the General Regulation for Data Protection (GRPD) implies, with real changes not easy to implement with current information systems and applications. But such issues related with the use of personal data are not restricted to GRPD. Also security issues, and information readiness or the quality and veracity of information are at stake – thus turns reference and information support as an important role for any information service. Additionally, we are in a fast, complex, and information sophisticated world. As so, open access and social media, two the trending phenomena when dealing with information management place a number of challenges but also opportunities for those who are responsible for manage information within organizations. Taking the case of higher education, the presentation discusses how libraries can be the hub where such challenges and opportunities may have a more transformative impact.