...Reijo Savolainen Purpose To elaborate the nature of factors triggering information seeking. To this end, the conceptualisations of immediate and contextual impetus for information seeking presented in the explanatory models of information behaviour (IB) and information seeking are examined...

...Reijo Savolainen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the nature of everyday life as a context of information behaviour by examining how researchers have approached this issue. To this end, particular attention is directed to how they have characterized everyday life...

... within this area have resulted in recent reviews having narrower defined topics. The population can be defined more narrowly, e.g. patients with skin cancer (Bath-Hextall et al., 2017) or breast cancer (Lu et al., 2020). Alternatively, the information behaviour of interest can...

... to which IF-SKD reflects physicians’ information behaviour in a clinical setting and explore how the information system, Spark, designed to support physicians’ SKD, meets its goals. Design/methodology/approach The proposed pre-experimental study design employs an adapted version of the McCay-Peet’s...

... behaviour and to provide insights on how to effectively use this method in future research. Design/methodology/approach The author embedded the enhanced participant-driven photo elicitation in a qualitative interview study to examine people’s everyday life health information behaviour with activity...

... Structural equation modelling Information behaviour Information management Information sharing Recent technological developments, globalization and rising competition have made organizations increasingly dynamic. Deployment of organizational change initiatives meant to reduce costs, develop...

... be contacted at: jacqueline.sachse@hu-berlin.de 30 07 2018 12 02 2019 13 02 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Information behaviour Eye-tracking Search engine result page Mobile search Snippet length Web search...

... ; Whittaker and Hirschberg, 2001), and moved toward exploring new ways that information technology can better support PIM (Bellotti et al., 2004 ; Bergman et al., 2003 ; Fertig et al., 1996 ; Marshall and Tang, 2012). Meanwhile, influenced by everyday life information behavior...

... at: xlshen@whu.edu.cn 26 03 2018 19 06 2018 09 08 2018 20 08 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social media Information behaviour Information disclosure Gender difference Regulatory effectiveness Trust...

...Anika Meyer; Ina Fourie Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on an exploratory study of third-year architecture students’ information behaviour. It focusses on information activities, personal experience, resource usage, preferences in working individually or collaboratively, preferences...

...Tumelo Maungwa; Ina Fourie Purpose Competitive intelligence failures have devastating effects in marketplaces. They are attributed to various factors but seldom explicitly to information behaviour. This paper addresses causes of competitive intelligence failures from an information behaviour lens...

... at: h.jamali@gmail.com 30 12 2016 01 04 2017 26 05 2017 03 06 2017 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Iran Emotions Information behaviour Internet filtering Internet censorship Website blocking Internet...

... to investigate the informativeness of story in human life generally. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative survey of the information behavior of ultrarunners was conducted. The 46 participants were runners in a 100-mile footrace in 2016. Responses were first analyzed through phenomenological theme...

...Samuel Kelechukwu Ibenne; Boyka Simeonova; Janet Harrison; Mark Hepworth† Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review key models of people’s information behaviour (IB) exploring the integration of the concepts of information literacy (IL) and knowledge in their designs. Scholarly perspectives...

... of Hepworth’s research in LIS, in particular to studies of information behaviour and information literacy. Originality/value Demonstrates the community’s appreciation of Hepworth’s contributions to the discipline. Harrison et al. “An integrated model highlighting information literacy...

...Faramarz Soheili; Ali Akbar Khasseh; Afshin Mousavi-Chelak Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the top researchers in information behaviour (IB) based on ideational and social influence indicators. Design/methodology/approach The population included papers on IB indexed in the Web...

...Reijo Savolainen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the picture of the motivators for information behaviour by examining the nature of information need as a trigger and driver of information seeking. Design/methodology/approach A conceptual analysis was made by focussing...

... --> Information literacy Information behaviour Information capabilities This book is informative, interesting and thought provoking. As the editors state it provides an indication of “the rich diversity of information literacy and information behaviour carried out”. It demonstrates how people's...

...) for these researchers. Design/methodology/approach – Usability testing was used to evaluate the usability of OJAX++ in relation to biology researchers. Interviews with biology researchers in a large Irish university were conducted to investigate their research information behaviour, to establish user requirements...

... Information behaviour Election campaigns Political parties Candidates Internet Social media Twitter Facebook Scotland In May 2011, the Scottish National Party (SNP) swept to power in the Scottish Parliament elections, winning 69 of the 129 available seats with a 45.4 per cent share...