...Hongru Lu; Juan Xie; Ying Cheng; Ya Chen Purpose This study aims to investigate how the public formed their need for information in the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak. Exploring the formation of information needs can reveal why the public's information needs differ and provide insights...

...Gal Yavetz; Noa Aharony; Yaen Yaacov Sofer Purpose The aim of this study is to examine the information needs and information seeking behaviors of Israeli citizens during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 2020, with an emphasis on the dissemination of digital information...

...Petros Kostagiolas; Anastasios Milkas; Panos Kourouthanassis; Kyriakos Dimitriadis; Konstantinos Tsioufis; Dimitrios Tousoulis; Dimitrios Niakas Purpose The ultimate aim of this study is to investigate how health information needs’ satisfaction actually makes a difference to the patients...

...Musa Dauda Hassan; Dietmar Wolfram Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the information needs and seeking behaviors of African refugees in the Midwest United States. The research also investigates the sources participants consulted and their satisfaction with their information seeking...

...Hao Qin; Hongwei Wang; Aylmer Johnson Purpose This paper aims to explore the information needs and information-seeking behaviours of the new generation of engineering designers. A survey study is used to approach what their information needs are, how these needs change during an engineering design...

... focussing on problems with key intelligence and information needs. The exploratory study was conducted in 2016/2017. Managers (end-users) identify key intelligence needs on which information is needed, and often other staff members seek the information (proxy information seeking). The purpose of this paper...

...Suzanie Adina Mat Saat; Mark Hepworth†; Tom Jackson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the Malay children’s information needs from their experience with parental cancer using information behaviour techniques to elicit sensitive information that provided an indication of what children...

.... IL underpins IB in providing awareness of information sources; how to search and use information appropriately for solving information needs and leveraging generated new knowledge. The generation of new knowledge results from using information, in a process that combines with sense-making...

...Shih-chuan Chen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the information needs of family caregivers of cancer patients. Information sources used by the caregivers were also examined. Design/methodology/approach – We interviewed 15 family caregivers (nine females, six males...

.... It identifies the core journals used by aerospace researchers and the bundle of online resources necessary to adequately provide for research in the field. The technique used can be applied to other disciplines. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Several techniques for information needs...