Psychological Processes in the Use of Electronic Journals

Eason, Ken; Harker, Susan

doi:10.1629/1367

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“…For instance, a number of use studies, which included an evaluation of the effectiveness of the e-titles' organisation, found a connection between low use and both the users' inability to locate e-journals and an insufficient promotion (Lock et al, 2001;Nelson, 2001;Stark, 2001;Wolf, 2001;Smith, 2003). Based on the results of the SuperJournal project, Eason and Harker (2000) explored the users' behaviour towards the presentation of e-journals. According to the researchers, in seeking information users tend to adopt existing, familiar mental models rather than trying unknown alternatives.…”

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Organising e‐journals from the point of view of humanities: a case study at the University of Parma

Bevilacqua

2005

New Library World

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Purpose -Research was carried out at the University of Parma with the purpose to investigate the organisation of e-journal titles from a user viewpoint, in order to find out what influence the approach adopted by the library may have on the use of e-journals and what characteristics the organisation of e-journals should have to enable an easy discovery of resources. Design/methodology/approach -The case study involved students, faculty members and library staff in classics and medieval studies. Research methodology comprised a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach: a focus group, observations, interviews, and a questionnaire. Findings -The group of users appeared still reluctant to use e-journals, the main barriers to use being lack of awareness and limited number of relevant resources. Users were favourable to being provided with multiple points of access to e-journals. Their preference appeared to be based on the familiarity of the method and similarity to the organisation of their physical library. The organisation of e-journals adopted at Parma had the potential to meet the users' expectations, but its actual implementation seemed to require more effective promotion and user-centred design. Originality/value -This paper may prove useful to humanities librarians engaged in providing user effective organisation of e-journals and in encouraging researchers and students to use electronic journals.

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Organising e‐journals from the point of view of humanities: a case study at the University of Parma

Bevilacqua

2005

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“…Pull technologies are also used in a variety of disciplines to support monitoring. For example, science faculty members in a study by Eason and Harker (2000) regularly accessed the table of contents of particular journals in digital libraries, while a survey of the information sources used by astronomers found that they regularly visited an e-print service (astro-ph) to keep up-to-date, but did not use push technologies, such as e-mail alerts (Tenopir et al, 2005). Pull technologies were also favoured over push technologies by Finnish academic staff who primarily monitored developments by searching journal databases (Vakkari and Talja, 2006).…”

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Keeping up with the law: investigating lawyers’ monitoring behaviour

Ellis¹,

Makri

Attfield

2014

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Abstract:Purpose:We wanted to provide an enriched understanding of how lawyers keep up-to-date with legal developments. Maintaining awareness of developments in an area (known as 'monitoring') is an important aspect of professional's information work. This is particularly true for lawyers, who are expected to keep up-to-date with legal developments on an on-going basis.Design/methodology/approach:We conducted semi-structured interviews with a group of lawyers who authored and published current awareness content for LexisNexis -a large publishing organisation. The interviews focused on identifying the types of electronic, printed and people-based current awareness resources the lawyers used to keep up-to-date with legal developments and the reasons for their choices. Findings:The lawyers mostly used electronic resources (particularly e-mail alerts and an electronic tool that alerted them to changes in website content), alongside interpersonal sources such as colleagues, customers and professional contacts. Printed media such as journals and newspapers were used more rarely and usually to complement electronic and person-based resources. A number of factors were found to influence choice. These included situational relevance, presentation, utility and trustworthiness, the speed of content acquisition, and interpretation facilitated by the resource. Originality/value:Our findings enrich our understanding of lawyers' monitoring behaviour, which has so far received little direct research attention. Our design suggestions have the potential to feed into the design of new and improvement of existing digital current awareness resources. Our findings have the potential to act as 'success criteria' by which these resources can be evaluated from a user-centred perspective.

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“…Ten per cent of their users were asked about their usage through interviews, questionnaires and focus groups which provided further data. However, this tended to focus on the interaction with the e-journal itself (use of browse and search to locate articles, depth of use in terms of mining to table of contents, abstract or article level) and whether articles were printed, read on-screen or both (Eason and Harker, 2000). Their "questionnaire study of repeat users found…that 89% would print rather than read the article onscreen.…”

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Romeo Studies 3

Gadd

Oppenheim

Probets

2003

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This paper is the third in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers previous studies of the usage of electronic journal articles through a literature survey. It then reports on the results of a survey of 542 academic authors as to how they expected to use open-access research papers. This data is compared with results from the second of the RoMEO Studies series as to how academics wished to protect their open-access research papers. The ways in which academics expect to use open-access works (including activities, restrictions and conditions) are described. It concludes that academics-as-users do not expect to perform all the activities with open-access research papers that academics-as-authors would allow. Thus the rights metadata proposed by the RoMEO Project would appear to meet the usage requirements of most academics. Previous research paper usage studies The term "usage" is a broad one that can be interpreted in a number of different ways. Copyright law defines a range of usage activities (copy, broadcast, lend, etc.) some of which exclusively belong to the copyright owner, and some that may be performed by non-copyright owners under certain terms and conditions. Lessig (2003) calls the former set of activities "copyright" activities and the latter set, "regulated". There is also a third category of activities with which copyright law does not concern itself and Lessig terms these "unregulated" activities. The usage activities of interest to the RoMEO Project were those performed with open-access electronic research papers that fell into Lessig's "copyright" and "regulated" categories. (For the purposes of this paper, such activities will be referred to as "copyrightregulated"). It was not concerned with unregulated activities. This was because we anticipated that the resulting rights metadata would provide less restriction on use than that provided by copyright law, but more than that provided by simply releasing a work into the public domain. If the RoMEO rights metadata began regulating activities that were unregulated under copyright law, this would go against the spirit of open-access. A search of the literature showed that, to date, investigations into the usage of open-access research papers on eprint archives have tended to focus on the depositing activities of authors, rather than usage by end

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Psychological Processes in the Use of Electronic Journals

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Organising e‐journals from the point of view of humanities: a case study at the University of Parma

Organising e‐journals from the point of view of humanities: a case study at the University of Parma

Keeping up with the law: investigating lawyers’ monitoring behaviour

Romeo Studies 3

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