Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the information-seeking behaviour of international students in terms of their information needs and to highlight the role of social media. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, a systematic literature survey was conducted in order to investigate information-seeking trends among international students while using social media. As a res...

This paper provides a history and overview of the field of human information behavior, including recent advances in the field and multidisciplinary perspectives.

A non-technical overview of two primary areas of study within the discipline of information science, information retrieval (IR) and informetrics, is presented. Informetric properties of IR systems as the basis for understanding IR system structure and generalizing human information seeking in electronic environments are discussed. Applications of informetric study of IR systems for more efficie...

Recently, virtual reality (VR) technology has become more widespread. Humans increasingly interact with information in VR, and a detailed look into those activities is warranted. Thus, scoping literature review (PRISMA-ScR) conducted. It overviews all relevant about information-seeking behaviour focusing on existing models theories. Out of 536 publications, 37 qualify for this review. Eight pub...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate two metadata schemas, AACR2+ and the International Children’s Digital Library’s metadata schema, in light of children’s information seeking behavior for book selection. While previous studies focus on the development of child-friendly interfaces, few of these studies discuss a metadata schema for children’s libraries. Given that effective information ret...

conclusions our findings showed that, through seeking information, patients try to achieve well-being and realize their personal rights as well as their right to security. they should also be encouraged to enhance their quality of life by using the knowles’ learning theory to formulate their needs and learning priorities. results during the analysis process, three main themes were extracted tha...

Purpose – To provide some theoretical considerations concerning information literacy so as to contribute to a theoretically informed point of departure for understanding information literacy and to argue that to be an information literate person is to have knowledge about information sources and that searching and using them is determined by an insight into how knowledge is socially organized i...