Ana Lúcia Terra

Ana Lúcia Terra is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information, Faculty of Arts, University of Coimbra, where she is the director of the Degree in Information Science. She teaches on the MA and PhD in Information Science. She was an Adjunct Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, from 2002 to 2020, where she was the Coordinator of the Degree in Documentation and Information Sciences and Technologies, Director of the Master's Degree in Business Information, among other management positions. She is the elected Chair of the Spain-Portugal Chapter of ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), since November 2019. She is a board member of the Bobcatsss Association, since January 2021. In 2009, she has received the Raul Proença Prize, sponsored by the Portuguese Directorate-General for Books and Libraries. She has published more than 100 works, some indexed in Web of Science, Scopus and other databases, including articles in scientific journals, papers in conference proceedings, book chapters, two books and the edition of four special journal issues. She is involved in several research projects (Erasmus+, FCT, etc.), in some of them with a coordination role. Her main research interests include information behavior, and knowledge organization. Her main research interests include information behavior, namely Personal Information Management (PIM), information behavior in everyday contexts and information literacy; knowledge organization, particularly in institutional repositories; and information management, with a focus on organizational email management.