Browsing of E-Journals by Engineering Faculty.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29173/istl2522Abstract
In response to a hypothesis that researchers who no longer use print journals may miss out on the serendipitous benefits of "poor indexing" provided by print tables of contents, librarians at the University of Florida surveyed their engineering faculty to determine faculty use of tables of contents in either print or online format. Results indicate that the engineering faculty still use tables of contents and journal browsing to support current awareness and other information-seeking needs. Respondents rely heavily on library- subscribed databases and they still pay attention to the journal name when reading articles. Differences in behavior across academic ranks and engineering subdisciplines are apparent. Associate Professors browse less and are less confident that they are keeping up than Assistant Professors or Professors. The survey results also support a trend of relying more on the interpersonal network that is carefully built by researchers as their careers progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Downloads
References
Boyce, P.D., King, W., Montgomery, C. & Tenopir, C. 2004. How electronic journals are changing patterns of use. Serials Librarian 46:121-141.
Cope, B. and Kalantzis, M. 2009. Signs of epistemic disruption: transformations in the knowledge system of the academic journal. First Monday 14(4-6). [Internet]. [Cited May 6, 2010]. Available from: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2309.
Eason, K., Yu, L.Z. & Harker, S. 2000. The use and usefulness of functions in electronic journals: the experience of the SuperJournal project, Program (2000):1-34.
Evans, J.A. 2008. Electronic publication and the narrowing of science and scholarship. Science 321(5887):395-9.
Hemminger, B.M., Lu, D., Vaughan, K.T.L. & Adams, S.J. 2007. Information seeking behavior of academic scientists. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58(14):2205-25.
Huntington, P., Nicholas, D. & Jamali, H.R. 2006. Article decay in the digital environment: An analysis of usage of OhioLINK by date of publication, employing deep log methods. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 57(13):1840-51.
Inger, S. & Gardner, T. 2008. How Readers Navigate to Scholarly Content: Comparing the Changing User Behaviour Between 2005 and 2008 and Its Impact on Publisher Web Site Design and Function. 1-32.Available at: {http://www.marywaltham.com/howreadersnavigatetoscholarlycontent_oCT_08.pdf}.
Khargonekar, P.P. 2009. State of the College. Presentation to the Dean's Advisory Board, University of Florida's College of Engineering, April 2009. [Internet]. [Cited May 6, 2010]. Available from: {https://www.eng.ufl.edu/ppk/documents/presentations/stateofthecollege_2009.pdf}
King D.W., Tenopir, C., Choemprayong S. & Wu L. 2009. Scholarly journal information-seeking and reading patterns of faculty at five US universities. Learned Publishing 22(2): 126-144.
Nicholas, D., Huntington, P., Jamali, H.R. & Tenopir, C. 2006. Finding information in (very large) digital libraries: a deep log approach to determining differences in use according to method of access. Journal of Academic Librarianship 32(2):119-26.
Nicholas, D., Huntington, P. & Jamali, H.R. 2007. The use, users, and role of abstracts in the digital scholarly environment. Journal of Academic Librarianship 33(4): 446-53.
Nicholas, D., Huntington, P., & Jamali, H.R. 2008. User diversity: as demonstrated by deep log analysis. Electronic Library 26(1):21-38.
Rowlands, I. 2007. Electronic journals and user behavior: A review of recent research. Library & Information Science Research 29(3):369-96.
Tenopir, C. 2003. Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources., pub 120. [Internet]. [Cited May 6, 2010]. Available from: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub120abst.html
Tenopir, C., King, D.W., Edwards, S. & Wu, L. 2009a. Electronic journals and changes in scholarly article seeking and reading patterns. Aslib Proceedings 61(1): 5-32.
Tenopir, C., King, D.W., Spencer, J. & Wu, L. 2009b. Variations in article seeking and reading patterns of academics: what makes a difference? Library & Information Science Research 31: 139-148.
University College London. 2008. Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future. [Internet]. [Cited May 6, 2010]. Available from: {https://web.archive.org/web/20080822030206/http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf}
Downloads
Additional Files
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2010 Denise Beaubien Bennett, Amy G. Buhler
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
