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Code of Ethics for Information Professionals in Portugal

Portuguese Association of Librarians
Archivists and Documentalists (BAD)
Portuguese Association for the Development of Scientific and Technical Information (INCITE)
Portuguese Association of Health Documentation (APDIS)
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"This code considers as information professionals: Documentalists, librarians, archivists, information and knowledge managers and others who mediate between the originators of content, information service providers, information users and information technologies. The aims of this Code of Ethics are: To serve as an instrument that will clarify and help information professionals in Portugal in making ethical decisions. To give the users of Portuguese information services (libraries, archives, information services) the confidence that their rights are being respected by the professionals. To present society with the undertaking to which the information professionals working in Portugal commit themselves in relation to the ethical values guiding their professional activities. To help new members in the profession to integrate themselves in professional terms, succinctly expressing the values of the profession."
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1999-06-25
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