Estudo de caso: aplicabilidade em dissertações na área de ciência da informação

Presents an analysis about the application of the case study methodology in dissertations of the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, with the objective of discovering how the "Case Studies" are being used in the methodologies of the dissertations in the field of " Information". We used the search for dissertations, from the year 2017, on Information Science, to identify which ones used the case study in its methodology and how these case studies were used. The "Dissertations" clipping was necessary due to the limited time in view of the extensive universe of works that use the "Case Study" methodology. Among the 26 papers returned, after reading the abstracts, it was verified that 23 were directed to the methodology of the case study, and that they were also directed to some area of information science research. Then the selected papers were read and analyzed according to the Yin parameters.