As new technologies and information delivery systems emerge, the way in which individuals search for information to support research, teaching, and creative activities is changing. To understand different aspects of researchers' information-seeking behavior, this article surveyed 2,063 academic researchers in natural science, engineering, and medical science from five research universities in the United States. A Web-based, in-depth questionnaire was designed to quantify researchers' information searching, information use, and information storage behaviors. Descriptive statistics are reported. Additionally, analysis of results is broken out by institutions to compare differences among universities. Significant findings are reported, with the biggest changes because of increased utilization of electronic methods for searching, sharing, and storing scholarly content, as well as for utilizing library services. Generally speaking, researchers in the five universities had similar information-seeking behavior, with small differences because of varying academic unit structures and myriad library services provided at the individual institutions. IntroductionThe advent of personal computers and the Internet followed by the introduction of online electronic journals and databases at the beginning of the 1990s led to the development of online academic resources and the transformation JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 61(5): 2010 of the practice of scholarly communication. The ease of access and ease of use provided by electronic resources has made it easier for researchers to access and share scientific knowledge. Today, the use of online electronic resources has become widespread in almost all fields of scientific research. However, the impact of these new technologies varies considerably both across academic domains and institutions. In an effort to understand how scientists are responding to the transition to electronic communication, the NeoRef research group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has conducted several surveys of academic researchers. This article reports results from the conclusion of a national study surveying academic researcher's information-seeking behavior at five universities. This national study follows the same methodology established in the initial survey of academic scientists initiated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Hemminger, Lu, Vaughan, & Adams, 2007). It extends this work to encompass four additional universities, to study differences among five universities in information-seeking behavior. The main research aims are to provide a baseline description of current informationseeking behavior of academic scientists on a national level as institutions change to primarily electronic communications, to understand where changes in behavior are occurring and why, and what theoretical and practical implications this has for information-seeking behavior models and for library services.This article is the first of three arti...

Colorado State University librarians conducted five focus groups with thirty-one faculty, research scientists, and research associates. The groups explored: (1) The nature of data sets that these researchers create or maintain; (2) How participants manage their data; (3) Needs for support that the participants identify in relation to sharing, curating, and preserving their data; and (4) The feasibility of adapting the Purdue University Libraries' Data Curation Profiles Toolkit 1 interview protocol for use in focus groups with researchers. The authors report their review of related literature, themes that emerged from analysis of the focus groups, and implications for related library services.

Equine-assisted psychotherapy (EAP) is an innovative emerging approach to mental health treatment. This narrative synthesis explores the current state of knowledge and areas for future research in EAP. Specifically reviewed are qualitative and quantitative empirical studies, including both articles published in peer-reviewed journals and research presented in theses and dissertations. We selected 24 studies for final inclusion in this study, dating between 2005 and 2013, and including the first EAP empirical research completed in 2005. Four of these studies are peer-reviewed journal articles, while 20 are master's theses or doctoral dissertations. The reviewed qualitative research provides initial evidence for the value of EAP for enhancing adolescents' communication and relationship skills. The reviewed experimental and quasi-experimental research provides initial evidence for the value of EAP for enhancing children's and adolescents' emotional, social and behavioural functioning. Yet, conclusions about the effectiveness of EAP must still be considered preliminary due to various methodological limitations in the reviewed research. The narrative review describes these methodological limitations and concludes with recommendations for future research.

Thirty-one materials have been tested in compression in order to generate the stress (force per unit of cross-sectional area) versus strain (deformation) behaviour, for the purpose of assessing the suitability of various foamed plastics and rubbers as shoe insole materials. It was found that the materials could be classified into three distinct categories (very stiff, moderately deformable and very deformable) according to the shape of the characteristic stress versus strain curve. The moderately deformable group has been selected as the most promising for clinical application.

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