Information behaviour of scholars

Information Seeking by Humanities Scholars

This paper investigates the information seeking of humanities academics and scholars using digital libraries. It furthers existing work by updating our knowledge of the information seeking techniques used by humanities scholars, where the current work predates the wide availability of the Internet. We also report some of the patterns observed in query and term usage by humanities scholars, and ...

Forums for information systems scholars: III

Use of electronic information resources and facilities by humanities scholars

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the use of electronic information resources and facilities by humanities scholars at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey of faculty from arts and humanities departments at the University of the Punjab was conducted. In total, 62 faculty and research staff participated. Findings – Th...

Annotated Bibliography on the Information-Seeking Behavior of Scholars & Historians

Learning About the Information Seeking of Interdisciplinary Scholars and Students

THEINFORMATION NEEDS AND information-seeking behavior of scholars and students in interdisciplinary fields has been studied very little. The few scattered studies available suggest that such fields may require striking and distinctive information-seeking adaptations by researchers that mark this area as different and very much deserving of research. Kinds of research needed at both basic and ap...