International Visibility of ETDs in Portuguese and in English on a Brazilian Repository

International Visibility of ETDs in Portuguese and in English on a Brazilian Repository

Ana Pavani

Portuguese is the 9th most spoken language (4th Western language) in the world according to Berlitz (https://www.berlitz.com/blog/most-spoken-languages-world) or the 8th (4th Western according to Statista (https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-languages-worldwide/). Both numbers mean that Portuguese has a large number of speakers. The Comunidade de Países de Língua Portuguesa (https://www.cplp.org/) lists nine countries that have Portuguese as one of the official languages – Angola (36.7M), Brazil (216.4M), Cape Verde (0.6M), Guinea-Bissau (2.2M), Equatorial Guinea (1.7M), Mozambique (33.9M), Portugual (10.2M), Sao Tome & Principe (0.2M) and Timor-Leste (1.4M). Their populations in 2023 were informed on WorloMeter (https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by-country/). It can easely be observed that Brazil holds 71.3% of the Portuguese speaking population. This work focus on the ETD collection of a university in Brazil. It has offered graduate programs since the early 1960s, when T&D were published in pt, unless a special request was submitted. ETDs had been optional since 2000 and became mandatory in 2002. In 2008, ETDs presented in foreign languages started being accepted without special authorization

2024