Information-seeking behavior and the use of online resources: a snapshot of current health sciences faculty

Evidence-based information needs of public health workers: a systematized review

“…Twenty studies were devoted to examining the information needs of public health workers [11–14, 26–28, 30–33, 35–37, 42, 44–47]. Participants self-reported these needs, usually from a list of items in a survey.…”

“…Several studies reported that public health workers need statistics, government reports and guidelines, and journal articles [11, 27, 31, 40, 42, 46, 48]. Staying current with the latest public health research, finding data, and finding materials for grant-writing were other areas of need [11, 13, 14, 32, 33, 49]. Participants frequently expressed the need for librarians but were often uncertain about the services that librarians could provide [11, 13, 26, 28, 29, 46].…”

Assessing the Effectiveness of eTOC alerts in the Dissemination of Newly Published Literature in a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Specialist Library

“…Making eTOCs or RSS feeds freely available to staff requires serious consideration of the target audience, suitable content, and end user familiarity and while librarians are enthusiastic about RSS feeds, and aware of their potential benefits lack of end-user knowledge can remain an impediment to uptake (5,6,8). DeGroote and Shultz's 2014 study found that few faculty members at their institution used social media technology, such as RSS, Twitter feeds, or read blogs or wikis in their field, with 84% indicating they had 'never' used these services (7).…”

“…Studies have looked at how healthcare libraries provide journal information, from the more traditional methods of disseminating weekly photocopies of tables of contents, or routing current issues to using electronic Table of Contents alerts (eTOCs) and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds (3)(4)(5)(6)(7). eTOCs and RSS feeds both available from publishers' Web sites or subscription agents, provide notification when a new issue of a journal is made available.…”

Information seeking behaviour of the professoriate in selected federal universities in southwest Nigeria

“…The three Nigerian universities chosen for this study are the oldest in southwest Nigeria and are ranked in the top three universities by the Nigeria Universities Commission (2015). While a number of studies (De Groote, Shultz & Blecic 2014, Aforo & Lamptey 2012, Bhatti 2010, Thanuskodi 2009, Majid, Ali Anwar & Eisenschitz 2000 have focused on information seeking behaviour of faculty members in general, specific attention has not been given to the professoriate; Xuemei (2010) notes that studies on information seeking behaviour of the professoriate remain scarce in empirical literature. This study therefore examines the information seeking behaviour of the professoriate in the three selected federal universities in Nigeria, with the aim of discovering their information needs, how they seek, access and share information, and their attitude towards electronic information resources.…”