Information-Seeking Behavior in the Digital Age: A Multidisciplinary Study of Academic Researchers

Abstract

This article focuses on how electronic information resources influence the information-seeking process in the social sciences and humanities. It examines the information-seeking behavior of scholars in these fields, and extends the David Ellis model of information-seeking behavior for social scientists, which includes six characteristics: starting, chaining, browsing, differentiating, monitoring, and extracting. The study was conducted at Tennessee State University (TSU). Thirty active social sciences and humanities faculty, as well as doctoral students, were interviewed about their use of electronic information resources for research purposes, their perception of electronic and print materials, their opinions concerning the Ellis model, and ways the model might apply to them. Based on the interview results, the researcher provides suggestions on how current information services and products can be improved to better serve social sciences and humanities researchers. The author makes recommendations for improving library services and technologies to better meet the needs of social sciences and humanities scholars.odern modes of technology have changed the information environment in which social sciences and humanities researchers work. The pursuit of knowledge has been revolutionized, mainly through the vast expansion of data accessible via the Internet. Increased knowledge of the information-seeking behaviors of social sciences and humanities researchers is crucial to meeting their information needs.The electronic information resources examined in this study include:1. This study seeks to understand how electronic information resources affect the information-seeking processes in the social sciences and humanities. It also crl-34r2

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