The changing information needs of users in electronic information environments

Kebede, Gashaw

doi:10.1108/02640470210418227

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“…But, in addition to formal scholarly publications, the Web also hosts a wide variety of other academic information. Those searching a university site from a developed country are likely to find much research-related information such as online CVs for faculty, publication lists, and general research descriptions (Wilkinson, Harries, Thelwall and Price 2003) although the site may also host administrative, teaching and general information (Middleton, McConnell and Davidson 1999;Ferdig and Hartshorne 2002;Kebede 2002;McAvinia and Oliver 2002;Wang, Berry and Yang 2003).…”

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Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence – A Statistical Study of the UK

Thelwall¹,

Price²

2003

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The Web has become an important tool for scholars to publicise their activities and disseminate their findings. In the information age, those who do not use it risk being bypassed. In this paper we introduce a statistical technique to assess the extent to which the broad spectrum of research areas are visible online in UK universities. Five broad subject categories are used for research, and inlink counts are used as indicators of online visibility or impact. The approach is designed to give more complete subject coverage than previous studies and to avoid the conceptual difficulties of a page classification approach, although one is used for triangulation. The results suggest that Science and Engineering dominate university Web presences, but with Humanities and Arts also achieving a high presence relative to its size, showing that high Web impact does not have to be restricted to the sciences. Research funding bodies should now consider whether action needs to be taken to ensure that opportunities are not being missed in the lower Web impact areas.

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Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence – A Statistical Study of the UK

Thelwall¹,

Price²

2003

Libri

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“…Moreover, instead of expecting users to accept whatever exists in the market, the right perspective is to know and provide whatever electronic resources suits users under their respective circumstances (Kebede 2002). The library management therefore needs to conduct user study programs to know more about electronic resource needs of users.…”

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Use of E-resources by the Students and Researchers of Faculty of Arts, Annamalai University

Yong¹,

Choudhury²

2012

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The study aimed at finding the use of e-resources by the post graduate students and research scholars of Faculty of Arts in the Annamalai University. A questionnaire was distributed among the Research scholars and Post-Graduate Students to collect desired data. A total of 200 questionnaires were distributed to the selected sample of Faculty of Arts; 180 valid samples were collected. The study found that the majority of users are aware about the availability of e-resources. The result reveals that 47.78 % of respondents want to access only electronic version whereas only 32.78% users want to read the printed journals but 19.44% respondents want to use both electronic and printed version. Majority of the respondents 76.66% use e-resources for writing papers. The analysis reveals that many of the respondents search e-resources through linking facility available on the library website

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“…Before we explore the areas of bibliometrics and altmetrics support for researchers, let us examine the researchers' needs in the 21 st century. It is widely acknowledged that the changing information needs of users (Kebede 2002;Abubakar 2011), too, have been partly instrumental in the changing role of academic librarians (see Mamtora 2013). In a study conducted by Wolff (2016), almost three quarters of university staff in selected universities in Canada believed that the primary responsibility of their libraries was to facilitate access to scholarly materials.…”

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Navigating the rising metrics tide in the 21st century: which way for academic librarians in support of researchers in sub-Saharan Africa?

Onyancha

2018

SAJLIS

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Academic librarians in sub-Saharan Africa, just like their counterparts in the rest of the world, are under pressure to provide relevant information services to satisfy varied client needs. Research administrators, grant offices, researchers, students and university managers, among others, are increasingly turning to academic librarians for information to meet their myriad research-related information and metrics needs. Sub-Saharan African countries' emphasis on strengthening science, technology and innovation has exerted further pressure on information professionals and other stakeholders to develop and appropriately apply bibliometrics and altmetrics to inform decision-making and policy-formulation processes. Research output and impact metrics are not only quickly evolving but their volume has been unprecedented. This paper's focus is the application of bibliometrics and altmetrics by academic librarians to support researchers in their respective universities. The paper argues that there is need for up-skilling or re-skilling the 21 st-century sub-Saharan African academic librarian to select and apply appropriate metrics, tools and strategies to support researchers as they execute their responsibilities. The paper offers possible areas of training for academic librarians.

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The changing information needs of users in electronic information environments

Cited by 31 publications

References 12 publications

Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence – A Statistical Study of the UK

Disciplinary Differences in Academic Web Presence – A Statistical Study of the UK

Use of E-resources by the Students and Researchers of Faculty of Arts, Annamalai University

Navigating the rising metrics tide in the 21st century: which way for academic librarians in support of researchers in sub-Saharan Africa?

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