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...

At present, music digital library systems are being developed based on anecdotal evidence of user needs, intuitive feelings for user information seeking behavior, and a priori assumptions of typical usage scenarios. Emphasis has been placed on basic research into music document representation, efficient searching, and audiobased searching, rather than on exploring the music information needs or...

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...

Genealogy and family history are examples of everyday life information seeking and provide a unique example of intensive and extensive use of libraries and archives over time. In spite of the ongoing nature of this activity, genealogists and family historians have rarely been the subject of study in the information seeking literature and therefore the nature of their information problems have n...

background no study from india has examined pathways to care in alcohol using population systematically. objectives the present study aimed to understand the pathways to care among alcohol-dependent individuals seeking help at a tertiary care center. patients and methods it was a cross-sectional, observational study. a total of 58 subjects diagnosed with alcohol- dependence syndrome as per dsm-...

Many researchers in the area of information seeking behavior have highlighted the importance of context in influencing information-seeking behavior. However, few have elaborated on how contextual factors influence information-seeking in practice. This chapter explores the impact of disciplinary traditions of non-western, developing country external environments on patterns of information seekin...

Digital Library (DL) has become a mean to distribute multimedia contents in the networked information environment. Previous researchers have suggested ways to improve the design of multimedia DLs, however, users’ information seeking behavior is often neglected. Existing studies on users’ searching behavior do not provide any insights specifically into the behavior of users searching for multime...

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...