Evaluation of digital object identifier concepts in students of a post graduation course

Introduction: More than a million graduate annually in Brazil and many go on to Post Graduation Lato sensu courses. These are important for professional and academic market. These courses is interesting to learn the notions of DOI (Digital Object Identifier), ownership and copyright. Objective: Present assessment of DOI and information management concepts on students. Methodology: We carried out an exploratory research, a qualitative case study of the phenomenon of notions on DOI and related concepts. We interviewed students who were completing their Lato sensu Post Graduation course in a traditional private institution located in the Southeast Brazil. Results: The vast majority on students of this case did not know the DOI and other related information management. Participation in the survey makes them interested in the subject. Conclusion: Few students in this study showed to know on DOI and information management. We associated this phenomenon to the low Brazilian participation into the world scientific production. The completion of work proved to be supportive for the emergence of motivation to change this situation and this type of study shows interesting to uncover ways to enhance national scientific production in the global production.