Information has become a resource as valuable as raw materials, used in the
sustainable development of a country. Its importance is visible in the processes of
supporting management, scheduling and decision making. It is for this reason that
scientific, technical, industrial and economic information is establishing itself as a
strategic resource.
In the social sense, information contributes to scientific and cultural advancement
through university and public libraries, documentation centers and information
systems. In general, we know that the emergence of new technologies, more specifically
the internet, has overthrown the everyday information practices of users. According to
Thivant and Bouzidi (2005), “The arrival of an all-digital environment and the Internet
within the workplace modifies the activities of professionals and profoundly changes
their information access practices.”
This issue has been the subject of much research, resulting in several publications
dealing with the debates between researchers and professionals in the field of
information and communication sciences. According to Gallezot et al. (2008) we have
approached “the ‘digital revolution’ as an external factor impacting on the university
world, whereas it is one of the main actors, if not the main actor, at the origin of this
revolution and to suggest that the research practices evolve endogenously through the
integration of ‘digital data’: through the digitalization of scientific journals, through the
development of Open Access, through the utilization of Web 2.0 tools (researchers’
blogs, laboratory wikis, etc.)”.