Information‐seeking behaviors of academic researchers in the internet age: A user study in the United States, China and Greece

Wang, Pei-Ling; Dervos, Dimitris A.; Zhang, Yan; Wu, Lei

doi:10.1002/meet.1450440273

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“…8 In her 2007 paper about the information-seeking behaviors of academic researchers in the Internet age, a user study in the United States, China, and Greece, Wang further discussed the information needs, information-seeking behaviors, and resource use of selected special interest groups. 9 In their review of scholarly information practices in the online environment, Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau, and Carrie M. Pirmann began to address the problem by reporting on the state of knowledge on scholarly information behavior, focusing on the information-seeking activities involved in the research process and how they differ across disciplines. The report found that information practices may be enhanced or advanced by new information resources and tools.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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

2010

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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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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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

2010

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“…Bulger et al discuss humanities scholar's search behaviour through six use cases where scholars employed a range of resources and technologies (Bulger et al, 2011). Wang et al use an international angle by discussing the scholars in the USA, Greece and China (Wang, Dervos, Zhang, & Wu, 2007). Gri ths and Brophy focus on students' online search behaviour, and describe the strong preference for search engines -especially Google -compared to the library catalogue or other sources (Gri ths & Brophy, 2005).…”

Section: Dissemination Channelsmentioning

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The deliverance of open access books : Examining usage and dissemination

Snijder¹

2019

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In many scholarly disciplines, books – not articles – are the norm. As print runs become smaller, the question arises whether publishing monographs in open access helps to make their contents globally accessible. To answer this question, the results of multiple studies on the usage of open access books are presented.The research focuses on three areas: economic viability; optimization of open access monographs infrastructure and measuring the effects of open access in terms of scholarly impact and societal influence. Each chapter reviews a di?ferent aspect: book sales, digital dissemination, open licenses, user communities, measuring usage, developing countries and the effects on citations and social media.

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“…Bulger et al discuss humanities scholar's search behaviour through six use cases where scholars employed a range of resources and technologies (Bulger et al, 2011). Wang et al use an international angle by discussing the scholars in the USA, Greece and China (Wang, Dervos, Zhang and Wu, 2007). Griffiths and Brophy focus on students' online search behaviour, and describe the strong preference for search engines, especially Google, compared to the library catalogue or other sources (Griffiths and Brophy, 2005).…”

Section: Dissemination Channelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modes of access: The influence of dissemination channels on the use of open access monographs

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2018

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Introduction. This paper studies the effects of several dissemination channels in an open access environment by analysing the download data of the OAPEN Library. Method. Download data were obtained containing the number of downloads and the name of the Internet provider. Based on public information, each Internet provider was categorised. The subject and language of each book were determined using metadata from the OAPEN Library. Analysis. Quantitative analysis was done using Excel, while the qualitative analysis was carried out using the statistical package SPSS. Results. Almost three quarters of all downloads come from users who do not use the Website www.oapen.org, but find the books by other means. Qualitative analysis found no evidence that channel use was influenced by user groups or the state of users' Internet infrastructure; nor was any effect on channel use found for either the language or the subjects of the monographs. Conclusions. The results show that most readers are using the "direct download" channel, which occur if the readers use systems other than the OAPEN Library Website. This implies that making the metadata available in the user's systems, the infrastructure used on a daily basis, ensures the best results.

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Information‐seeking behaviors of academic researchers in the internet age: A user study in the United States, China and Greece

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

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

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

The deliverance of open access books : Examining usage and dissemination

Modes of access: The influence of dissemination channels on the use of open access monographs

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