Slovenian Researchers: What Influences Their Information Behaviour?

Information-seeking behaviour of science and technology researchers in Nigeria: A survey of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi

“…Table 4 shows that many formal and informal information sources were consulted at different levels. This supports earlier studies, such as those conducted by Haines et al (2010), Vilar et al (2012), Abdulsalami (2013), Mugwisi et al (2014), Acheampong and Dzandu (2015), Chun et al (2015), Ezeala and Hundu (2016), Paliwal et al (2016), Momoh and Folorunsho (2017), Pontis et al (2017) and Abiolu (2019), which established that researchers used a variety of sources depending on need and availability.…”

“…Both the Biotechnology and the Chemical Fibre and Environmental Technology respondents indicated Internet sources and journal articles as the highest in terms of frequency of usage, with 100% of the respondents indicating so for each of these departments. This finding confirms Vilar et al’s study (2012), which revealed that biotechnology researchers used research papers and e-sources for their work. Information sources in the form of technical reports, pamphlets or leaflets, Internet sources, library catalogues, and emails, blogs, webinars and discussion forums were all indicated by 100% of the Planning, Technology Transfer and Information Management respondents.…”

“…Vilar et al (2012) identified the preferred information sources of science and technology researchers with respect to their research disciplines. They stated that natural science researchers preferred research papers and dissertations, technical researchers preferred standards and patents, interdisciplinary researchers preferred e-archives, and biotechnology researchers used research papers and dissertations but preferred e-sources.…”

Comportamiento informativo en Europa del Este en 2013-2022

“…The researchers are interested in the high-level processes of organisations, such as information culture (Lauri et al, 2016), information transfer mechanisms (Deja and Próchnicka, 2018), modelling the process of scholarly information seeking (Pulikowski, 2018;Cisek and Krakowska, 2020), or factors influencing usage of open access repositories for scholarly publishing (Maceviciute and Kepaliene, 2022). On the other hand, the perception of information environment by the researchers themselves (Steinerova, 2018) or their general characteristics and information activities (Vilar et al, 2015;Zhigalkina, 2018) are studied in different countries. Some researchers focus on objects of research, such as information seeking of mathematicians (Sapa et al, 2014) or information sharing between doctoral students and supervisors (Janiuniene and Maceviciute, 2016).…”

The impact of better access to scientific journals on the quality of research work: The case of a small university

“…Despite its high potential, OA has not (yet) been able to replace the best scientific journals, which are mostly owned by large international publishers and have to be paid for (Carey, 2013; Rodriguez, 2014; Vilar et al, 2012). When publishing a scientific article in a traditional journal or through OA, it is necessary to take into account four main factors: the visibility and discoverability of the scientific journal, publication cost, the speed of publication and prestige.…”