Documents produced by research: an analysis of the retention and disposition schedule of the state universities of São Paulo

Abstract

In universities, research laboratories develop activities related and produce document that, of its usefulness for research that beyond, can be a source of information in other researches, as well as constituting an important element of the scientific memory developed in the laboratory and at the university. Archives' concern with the management, organization, preservation and access of the archival document results in the classification code and the retention and disposition schedule, as these instruments provide an overview of the complete documents by an organization and the actions that produced them, being a basis for records management This work aims to investigate how the instruments of records management, contemplating the investigation by scientific activities in research laboratories at the university. The work is of a qualitative nature and the research is bibliographic and documentary. An analysis of the classification code and the retention and disposition schedule of UNESP and USP was carried out. The results show that the archival instruments of the analyzed institutions address these documents to a greater or lesser extent. It is also inferred the need for universities to see these documents as an important element of their documentary heritage and that the chosen ones contemplated in a broader perspective, in a policy of archival documents.