Research and teaching in the 30 years in Uruguay: 1993-2023

Abstract Since the beginning of the '90s, a line of research developed in the academic field by interdisciplinary teams in User Studies, and called from the 2000s, Information Behavior, began in Uruguay from the Information Science. The research is anchored in a contemporary vision of Information Science, inserted in the social sciences, attentive to the problems of individuals as people and of social groups that experience the phenomenon of information in complex societies such as human beings humans. Hence the growing and enriching interdisciplinarity of theoretical and methodological references and the integration of research teams. Two stages are identified, in the first (1993-2002) it is located in the EUBCA, Udelar and CIESU. The second is a line of research focused on the informative behavior of communities in disadvantaged contexts (2008-2023) in interdisciplinary teams from EUBCA (2008-2010), FIC (2013-2023), Udelar and its antecedent in the Prodic Program, Udelar (2010-2012). The projects are presented: 1) chronologically by title, funding body, person in charge and research team, accompanied by citations of the publications they generated; 2) objectives; 3) typologies of communities, objectives, territorial scope; 4) methods; 5) results; and 6) final thoughts. Annexes and references are included at each stage.