This study examines three aspects of information seeking behaviour of astronomers in Greece including a) the importance they place in keeping upto-date with current developments b) the methods they depend on for keeping up-to-date and c) the information sources they mostly use. We adopted an intradisciplinary approach in order to investigate similarities and differences in information seeking b...

Introduction: Pregnancy, especially the first pregnancy and childbirth, affects the women’s quality of life. Improving information-seeking behavior facilitates the decision-making process of women during pregnancy and postpartum. The aim of this study was to investigate the health information-seeking behavior of Iranian first-time mothers and first-time pregnant women. Methods: This research...

This case study explores the information seeking behaviour of digital camera consumers based on Assael’s consumer information acquisition and processing model. 135 responses were received from potential target group who had purchased or was planning to purchase digital cameras. Findings show that respondents who had not purchased digital camera before tended to seek for related information and ...

The rise on the Internet of blogging, the creation of journal-like web page logs, has created a highly dynamic subset of the World Wide Web that evolves and responds to real-world events. Indeed, blogs (or weblogs) have recently emerged as a new grassroots publishing medium. The so-called blogosphere (the collection of blogs on the Internet) opens up several new interesting research areas. Blog...

Purpose – To examine what search capabilities are desirable in web-based scholarly e-book systems. Design/methodology/approach – To present the author’s opinion and interpretation about what search capabilities are desirable in web-based scholarly e-book systems through investigating studies of information seeking behavior and exploring current multimedia and hypertext techniques. Findings – Th...

This paper reports on the use of a combination of cognitive task analysis techniques – such as observations with ‘think aloud’, the Critical Decision Method (CDM) interviews and Cued Recall – to identify and understand what students and researchers do when searching for scholarly material using various electronic resource discovery systems. It describes the use of Emergent Themes Analysis to di...

The advance of evaluation methodology is essential for the development of interactive systems that are based on the understanding of information seeking behaviour. This position paper presents a (rough) design of a community-based approach called the interaction pool, a repository of annotated interaction data that can be harnessed and shared by a research community interested in information se...

INEX investigates focused retrieval from structured documents by providing large test collections of structured documents, uniform evaluation measures, and a forum for organizations to compare their results. This paper reports on the INEX 2014 evaluation campaign, which consisted of three tracks: The Interactive Social Book Search Track investigated user information seeking behavior when intera...

The purpose of this study was to identify and analyze the processes of seeking information online and evaluating this information. We hypothesized that individuals’ social network, in-out group categorization, and cultural proclivity would influence their online information-seeking behavior. Also, we tested whether individuals differentiated information values based on the information source. A...

This two part article establishes a model of the mediating factors that influence student information behavior concerning electronic or digital information sources that support their learning. The first part reviews the literature that underpinned the development of the research methodology for the JISC User Behavior Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, as well as the literature that has subseq...