..., to the best of our knowledge, no study has examined how these researchers navigate academia and transition between roles through the perspective of information behavior. Two main information behaviors were examined: information seeking and personal information management (PIM). Information seeking...

...Lilach Alon; Alona Forkosh Baruch; Rafi Nachmias Purpose Differences in personal information management (PIM) behavior are well established in the literature, but are defined from the narrow perspective of practical use (e.g. filing/piling, emailing). This paper aims to identify the types of PIM...

...Sue Yeon Syn; Donghee Sinn; Sujin Kim Purpose This study aims to investigate how college students' personal information behaviors were impacted by contexts, resource types and perceptions of personal information management. Design/methodology/approach Using an online survey, a total of 1,194...

...Ofer Bergman; Tamar Israeli; Steve Whittaker Purpose Personal information management (PIM) is an activity in which people store information items in order to retrieve them later. The purpose of this paper is to test and quantify the effect of factors related to collection size, file properties...

...Yuanyuan Feng; Denise E. Agosto Purpose Building on theoretical foundation of personal information management (PIM) in information science, this paper seeks to understand how activity tracker users manage their personal health information generated by their devices and to elucidate future activity...

... presented uses a new approach – sketching in which participants externalised and visualised personal information and projects they discussed. The insights derived from the study form design implications for personal project management tools for knowledge workers. In the personal information management...

... – The study was limited to scholars in two disciplines, in one institution in a developing world context. However the models produced are suggestive of factors involved in shaping of the research-related PICs of scholars in general. Practical implications – Failures in personal information management...

...Ofer Bergman Purpose – Personal information management (PIM) is an activity in which an individual stores personal information items in order to retrieve them later on. As PIM research moves from an infant stage of exploratory studies to more rigorous quantitative ones, there is a need...