What Do They Tell Their Students? Business Faculty Acceptance of the Web and Library Databases for Student Research

Dewald, Nancy H.

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2005.01.002

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“…Unsurprisingly, Web use was high, and use and acceptance of the Web for research was higher than the use of subscription databases for research purposes. Dewald's (2005) research would indicate that business students' research behaviors emulate the behaviors of the business faculty; that is, students and faculty will use free Web resources unless specifically directed to library resources.…”

Section: Information-seeking Behaviors Of Business Studentsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Just the Facts: An Examination of E-Book Usage by Business Students and Faculty

Simon

2011

The Reference Librarian

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Business students and faculty expect the electronic delivery of content within their multiple disciplinary subject areas. The speed of acceptance and the rate of migration from print to electronic sources within the various business disciplines outpaces the acceptance rates in the humanities and other social sciences. Business students and faculty exhibit information-seeking behaviors that are unique to the practice-oriented nature of a business education. Electronic resources re-enforce this information-seeking behavior. The technology utilized in the creation of e-books enables business students and faculty to successfully locate specific data, both textual and numeric within the resource, further reinforcing their behaviors and accelerating the demand for additional e-books. Business students and faculty use e-books as reference books.

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Section: Information-seeking Behaviors Of Business Studentsmentioning

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Just the Facts: An Examination of E-Book Usage by Business Students and Faculty

Simon

2011

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“…Authors that studied this population group and the topics they studied were a collaborative redesign to a case study method by Crawford and Barrett (1997), use of commercial databases by Dewald (2005), and surveys by Littlejohn and Benson-Talley (1990) and Thomas (1994) of faculty frequency and characteristics for assigning library research assignments. Collaboration with a career center (Eichler & Bell, 1990) was a different approach.…”

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Business Information Literacy: A Synthesis for Best Practices

Fiegen

2011

Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship

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The purpose of this literature review is to identify preferred instructional practices and generally accepted conceptual models for business information literacy as reported by evidence-based studies. This study examined articles from 1980 to 2009 that met criteria for evidence-based research studies of business information literacy in academic libraries. It synthesizes the research in terms of six components: study objectives; subject characteristics; theory, standard, model, or significant author cited; instruction method and assessment instruments used; results or outcomes of the study; and recommendations for future research expressed by the authors. This literature review compiles best practices for information literacy researched by academic business librarians and offers suggestions for future research that would move the discipline forward in meaningful ways.

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“…A study (Dewald, 2005) of business faculty and student usage of the web and databases was performed at Penn State University. Researchers there found that 74.1% of faculty respondents use the web for professional research most of the time or almost always while only 43.1% use library databases.…”

Section: Information-seeking Behaviors Of Business Facultymentioning

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Information-Seeking Behaviors of Business Faculty

Hoppenfeld

Smith

2014

Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship

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Numerous studies have been performed on information-seeking behaviors in specific disciplines but not in business. The purpose of this study was to gather a better understanding of business faculty research processes, and in doing so, come away with ideas on how best to support their initiatives. A comprehensive survey was sent to all business faculty members at the authors' institution. The results led to discussions on topics including resource preferences, library usage, and institutional repositories.

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What Do They Tell Their Students? Business Faculty Acceptance of the Web and Library Databases for Student Research

Cited by 30 publications

References 11 publications

Just the Facts: An Examination of E-Book Usage by Business Students and Faculty

Just the Facts: An Examination of E-Book Usage by Business Students and Faculty

Business Information Literacy: A Synthesis for Best Practices

Information-Seeking Behaviors of Business Faculty

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