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The Internet is increasingly considered a crucial information resource. However, how the Internet is adopted as an information source within a given society depends on factors such as the technical infrastructure of a given area and the local culture. This paper reports on an ongoing study of the information behavior of people in Uzbekistan, a culture that has traditionally relied on social net...

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...

Information seeking behaviour is an essential component in designing and developing of need based information centers for meeting the information requirements of users. The study undertaken is an output of doctorate research in the field of agricultural sciences scanned in Indian context. The study covers various facets of information seeking behaviour of agricultural scientists and their conce...

This paper provides a set of criteria to evaluate the usability of trader user interfaces with respect to resource discovery. The criteria were identified because trader user interface developers sometimes make unrealistic assumptions about the information seeking behavior of their users, leading to interfaces that are difficult to use for resource discovery. This paper uses some insights from ...