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This paper aims to identify what are the difficulties encountered by academic educational institutions of the federal network in Brazil when implementing their institutional repositories. Methodology: a questionnaire was sent via email to the federal institutes from December 2020 to January 2021, 70 responses were obtained. The analysis of the data reveals that 90% of the Institutes tried at some point to start the implementation of an institutional repository and only 17% concluded it successfully. The main barriers pointed out refer to difficulties related to the technical knowledge of software by the information technology team, the lack of human resources, technical knowledge of the library staff and lack of interest from higher levels leaders. It is concluded, therefore, that libraries, despite being engaged and recognizing the importance of the institutional repository, need to improve communication between sectors, the qualification of information technology and library teams and the visibility of this service to successfully complete their projects deployment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It discusses copyright as a necessary competence for the academic reference librarian in order to provide guidance on issues related to the ethical and legal use of information. It reviews the topics of "academic library", "reference service" and "copyright" in relation to the current competencies of reference librarians in academic libraries. Using the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), we identified a sample of copyright offices that represent this new perspective for the reference librarian and analyzed their websites in order to identify current and emerging issues that can be important for the implementation of these services in Brazil and elsewhere. These issues are also considered key competencies related to the service that academic library and reference librarian provide to the community in relation to copyright. We conclude that, based on the analysis of the services and competences that are present in the international libraries, the curricula of the Library and Information Science programs, at least in Brazil, need to be revised in order to address these competences related to copyright and correspondently adjust the education and training of the reference librarians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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