Analysis of the behaviour of the users of a package of electronic journals in the field of chemistry

Borrego, Àngel; Urbano, Cristóbal

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“…The popularity of abstracts -a type of content that is usually offered for free in publishers' platforms -is not surprising. An earlier study of the consumption of electronic journals of the American Chemical Society at the University of Barcelona (Borrego and Urbano, 2007b) had already shown their popularity and the usefulness of this variable for determining the number of regular users of a journal.…”

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A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on scholarly information behavior

Ollé

Borrego

2010

Library & Information Science Research

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A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on the information behavior of academics at Catalan universities shows that academics now read more, and more widely. However, their reading is becoming more superficial; they are compelled to improve their discrimination skills in order to decide what to read in more depth. The electronic accessibility of journals means that academics now make fewer library visits. Web browsing and TOC e-mail alerts are replacing physical browsing, and searching is a very popular option for keeping up to date with developments. Internet search engines, especially Google and Google Scholar, are becoming important sources of information for academics. However, they face problems in managing their personal scientific information. IntroductionThe amount of electronic information available to academic researchers has increased tremendously during the last decade. During this period, accessibility to electronic contents has improved greatly, especially compared to earlier times when most of the information was availably only in printed format. Today, scientists have a wide range of channels through which they can locate and access published literature -bibliographic databases, alert services, hyperlinks, and so on. In this context, it is essential to establish how the increase in the amount of information available and the improvement in its accessibility have affected scholars' information behavior, in order to make suggestions for redefining and adapting the services offered by academic libraries. This task is especially urgent in view of the fact that most of the acquisition budgets of academic libraries are devoted to electronic contents.

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A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on scholarly information behavior

Ollé

Borrego

2010

Library & Information Science Research

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“…Some research has suggested a strong preference for electronic journals (Bar‐Ilan & Fink, 2005) although other work (Borrego & Urbano, 2007) found that chemists used a specific bundle of electronic journals less than expected. Barjak (2006) described heavy use of the Internet for scholarly communication across disciplines, particularly for scientists involved in large research networks.…”

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“…Sadler and Given (2005, 2007) found that graduate students' understanding of the affordances offered by their academic library were limited, particularly with respect to the availability of professional help and opportunities for information literacy instruction. Borrego and Urbano (2007) studied chemistry professors' use of a suite of electronic journals and found less use than expected. Kurata and colleagues (2007) found that Japanese scientists use electronic journals heavily but not exclusively.…”

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Information behavior

Fisher

Julien

2009

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

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IntroductionInformation behavior focuses on people's information needs; on how they seek, manage, give, and use information, both purposefully and passively, in the varied roles that comprise their everyday lives. Since the first ARIST chapters in the 1960s, the field of information needs and uses has expanded beyond studying academics and scientists to addressing non-work-related situations, employing mixed empirical methods, building a conceptual core for framing information behavior studies, and identifying key concepts for future investigation. This chapter reviews information behavior research published since Case's (2006) review, spanning the years 2005 to early 2008 and backpedaling to include several works from 2004. In addition to searching bibliographic databases, manual examinations were conducted of such key journals as further developed through solicitations on the ASIST SIG USE and ASIST listservs, which helped identify works in press. As Case (2006) noted, information behavior is a broad field that in its widest interpretation includes just about any paper that deals with information and people. In order to focus and manage the review, we excluded papers that limited themselves to the use of a particular source or system, did not encompass broader concepts or principles, and generally excluded other information science subfields such as information retrieval, information literacy, and knowledge management. We also excluded material written in languages other than English.Candidate papers were further limited to the formally published literature; we excluded reports to funding agencies and self-published papers. Beginning with an overview of the research methods used in post-2004 studies, this chapter traces the information behavior literature by discussing the theme of context, followed by elaborations of specific populations (academics, scientists, and students; occupational groups; and ordinary people in everyday life situations and health contexts), information sources (interpersonal, social networks and the Internet, and libraries), key concepts (including affect), and finally, theoretical frameworks. Case's (2006) chapter is recommended reading for an overview of past coverage of information behavior in ARIST. The current chapter is intended to complement cognate reviews on activity theory and information seeking (Wilson, 2008), multitasking behavior (Spink, Cole, & Waller, 2008), human geography and information studies (Downey, 2007), personal information management (Jones, 2007), scientific collaboration (Sonnenwald, 2007), context in information behavior research (Courtright, 2007), workplace 7-3 studies and technological change (Garcia, Dawes, Kohne, Miller, & Groschwitz, 2006), collaborative information seeking and retrieval (Foster, 2006), information failures in health care (MacIntosh-Murray & Choo, 2006), the social world of the Web (Haythornthwaite & Hagar, 2005), and children, teenagers, and the Web (Large, 2005). Method in Information Behavior ResearchThe methods used in recent info...

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“…En Europa, fuera del Reino Unido, resultan reseñables los estudios de Gargiulo (2003) y Boukacem-Zeghmouri y Schöpfel (2008). Por último, en España apuntamos los trabajos de Borrego et al (2007), Borrego y Urbano (2007), Ollé y Borrego (2010), Rodríguez et al (2008), Rodríguez y Alvite (2011) y Rodríguez, Alvite y Barrionuevo (2012).…”

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La utilización de las revistas electrónicas en la Universidad de León (España): hábitos de consumo y satisfacción de los investigadores

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Díez

Merino

2015

Investigación Bibliotecológica: Archivonomía, Bibliotecología e

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, pp. 17-55 tareas investigadoras. La media de artículos anuales consultados es considerable y manifiesta diferencias claras entre las áreas de humanidades, ciencias sociales y ciencias de la naturaleza y la salud. El número de títulos de revistas consultados de modo regular por los investigadores de la Universidad de León se sitúa en una media cercana a 10, resultado que supera el umbral hallado en otros trabajos.

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Analysis of the behaviour of the users of a package of electronic journals in the field of chemistry

Cited by 15 publications

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A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on scholarly information behavior

A qualitative study of the impact of electronic journals on scholarly information behavior

Information behavior

La utilización de las revistas electrónicas en la Universidad de León (España): hábitos de consumo y satisfacción de los investigadores

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