With the advancement of digital communication technologies, the need for protocols to establish governance, rules, or procedures in information network relationships arose. The protocols for the management and dissemination of digital collections follow procedures from Information Science, Open Scientific Communication, and Computing. In the context of this work that investigates the formation of an associative network between three universities to execute a Postgraduate Program in Agroecology and Territorial Development (PPGADT), the previous diagnosis identified decentralized flows for collection, storage, treatment, and dissemination of academic production; growth of online publications; and their dispersion across different storage devices, increasing the risk of loss of institutional memory. From this perspective, this study aimed to review the literature to analyze the current theoretical approaches to support the construction of a knowledge dissemination protocol in the PPGADT network. The conducting method was bibliographical research. The results point to the relevance of knowledge about agroecology and territorial development for the dynamism of the economy, public policies on territorial impact, sustainability, and strengthening of the identity of rural producers. It is concluded that the multi-institutional collections network is one of the strategies for integrating and disseminating networked knowledge in the domain analyzed here.
