Information-seeking behavior of undergraduate geography students

Fescemyer, Kathy

doi:10.1016/s0734-3310(01)00054-4

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“…They are not far behind PhD students in terms of using Mendeley. Additionally, while undergraduates are Mendeley readers of scholarly articles, their scarcity compared to postgraduate and PhD students could be because undergraduates tend to use reference materials and textbooks (Jamali & Nicholas, 2006) rather than journal articles as the former provide their information in a more convenient way (Fescemyer, 2000) or they do not yet know about reference management software. A noticeable percentage of Clinical Medicine articles were read by people who are apparently not academics and Note.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of Mendeley user categories

Mohammadi

Thelwall

Haustein

et al. 2015

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Little detailed information is known about who reads research articles and the contexts in which research articles are read. Using data about people who register in Mendeley as readers of articles, this paper explores different types of users of Clinical Medicine, Engineering and Technology, Social Science, Physics and Chemistry papers inside and outside academia. The majority of readers for all disciplines were PhD students, postgraduates and postdocs but other types of academics were also represented. In addition, many Clinical Medicine papers were read by medical professionals. The highest correlations between citations and Mendeley readership counts were found for types of users that often authored academic papers, except for associate professors in some subdisciplines. This suggests that Mendeley readership can reflect usage similar to traditional citation impact, if the data is restricted to readers who are also authors, without the delay of impact measured by citation counts. At the same time, Mendeley statistics can also reveal the hidden impact of some research papers, such as educational value for nonauthor users inside academia or the impact of research papers on practice for readers outside academia.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of Mendeley user categories

Mohammadi

Thelwall

Haustein

et al. 2015

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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“…Although numerous other studies of information seeking have used undergraduate students as their participants, including , Whitmire (2002), Fescemyer (2000, Kim (2003), Wilson et al (2002aWilson et al ( , 2002b, , Cothey (2002), Cole et al (2005), Urquhart et al (2003Urquhart et al ( , 2005, and Urquhart , they have tended to concentrate on how specific search tasks are carried out rather than tracking change over time. Although Whitmire (2002) studied the way that information seeking is related to the development 5 of epistemology in undergraduates, she focused on the results of the process, rather than its early development, and thus took final year undergraduates as her sample.…”

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Cognitive economy and satisficing in information seeking: A longitudinal study of undergraduate information behavior

Warwick

Rimmer

Blandford

et al. 2009

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractThis paper reports on a longitudinal study of information seeking by undergraduate Information Management students. It describes how they found and used information, and explores their motivation and decision making. We employed a use-in-context approach where students were observed conducting, and interviewed about, information seeking tasks carried out during their academic work.We found that participants were reluctant to engage with a complex range of information sources, preferring to use the internet. The main driver for progress in information seeking was the immediate demands of their work (e.g. assignments). Students used their growing expertise to justify a conservative information strategy, retaining established strategies as far as possible and completing tasks with minimum information seeking effort. The time cost of using library material limited the uptake of such resources. New methods for discovering and selecting information were only adopted when immediately relevant to the task at hand, and tasks are generally chosen or interpreted in ways that minimised the need to develop new strategies. Students were driven by the demands of the task to use different types of information resources, but remained reluctant to move beyond keyword searches, even when they proved ineffective. They also lacked confidence in evaluating the relative usefulness of resources.Whereas existing literature on satisficing has focused on stopping conditions, this work has highlighted a richer 2 repertoire of satisficing behaviours.

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“…Regarding the latter type, the service provider offers the user pertinent information based on his/her profile, which reflects his/her preferences as new data becomes available, before the user makes a request. It can be categorized as a PRS and is mainly studied in data mining (Kim, 2002) [17][18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

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Information Usage Behavior and Importance: Korean Scientist and Engineer Users of a Personalized Recommendation Service

Park

Choi

et al. 2019

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Background: We conducted research on the newly developed personalized recommendation service (PRS) of the global network of Korean scientists and engineers (KOSEN) in order to explore the information usage behavior and importance of the PRS used by Korean scientists and engineers. Methods: In order to understand information usage behavior, we gathered data from 513 survey results and analyzed them in terms of information usage behavior and the corresponding importance in each of the service quality areas. Results: We analyzed the 321 outcomes that indicated non-use of the PRS in order to understand the underlying reason(s); we employed 192 results that demonstrated the use of functionality to examine information usage behavior and importance. They found that the predominant motive for non-use of the service resulted from the respondents not knowing how to use it. According to demographic characteristics, the usage behavior of the PRS showed a difference regarding the purpose of using the service in the categories of gender and major field of study. Furthermore, users were concerned with various components of the PRS such as ease of use, design, relevance of content, user support, and interactivity. Conclusions: We suggest reinforcing user education degree and promotion to enhance the PRS. Since users were concerned with ease of use, design, relevance, user support, and interactivity, we recommend these as major points for improvement.

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Information-seeking behavior of undergraduate geography students

Cited by 24 publications

References 21 publications

Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of Mendeley user categories

Who reads research articles? An altmetrics analysis of Mendeley user categories

Cognitive economy and satisficing in information seeking: A longitudinal study of undergraduate information behavior

Information Usage Behavior and Importance: Korean Scientist and Engineer Users of a Personalized Recommendation Service

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