... Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only User studies Academic libraries Grounded theory Information-seeking behaviour Unplanned behaviour Unplanned behaviour coding pattern According to statistics published in Iran regarding the low per...

...Shadrack Katuu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine user studies as well as user education within the context of public services offered by archival institutions. It highlighted some of the key aspects that constitute both concepts drawing from history in order to provide a better...

... of Tennessee. United Kingdom Universities University libraries User studies Reading Academic libraries Measuring library value Outcomes measurement Value of academic libraries Qualitative techniques © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 It is important to get an article almost...

... Sahu can be contacted at: hksahu@iucaa.ernet.in; hksahu@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Astronomy Astrophysics Information seeking behaviour Information searches User studies India Information retrieval Information behaviour involves people using various...

... Online information seeking behaviour Academic information access Undergraduate students Online information resources User studies Undergraduates Internet Information retrieval With the rapid development of communication and web technologies, scholars in all disciplines have access...

... retrieval in context (Ingwersen and Järvelin, 2005). A number of user studies have been conducted to better understand the users, their tasks, the data and the environment of use. This sub‐section summarises part of the results relevant for this paper; a full account of the study is in Petrelli et al...

... Group Publishing Limited 2010 Generation and dissemination of information Information profession Digital libraries User studies Citizens of today's postmodernist knowledge society seem to crave information to an extent that is surely unparalleled in the history of mankind...

..., questions about the effects of e‐readers on individual reading practices and the potential applications for library delivery systems have yet to be examined. This study is one of the first to investigate the use of portable e‐book readers. Electronic books User studies Information studies Attitudes...

... systems Privacy Youth User studies Ireland The focus group interviews were used to examine in greater depth the themes and trends introduced in the questionnaires. The focus group interviews allowed us, also, to adjust to themes and communication practices that the teenagers themselves...

... at these results, an experiment that could be repeated with different web sites. Beatriz Plaza can be contacted at: beatriz.plaza@ehu.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Internet User studies Worldwide web Systems analysis Data mining Hundreds of thousands of academics worldwide own...

... incidence provides evidence of the value of reading in addition to reading patterns. Carol Tenopir can be contacted at: ctenopir@utk.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 User studies Scientists Electronic journals Libraries Information retrieval Reading Over the last...

.... Hamid R. Jamali can be contacted at: h.jamali@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Physics Astronomy Information searches User studies Behaviour How do scientists really discover, select and use the countless information and communications resources available to them...

... of librarians said e‐book usage was “fair to poor”. David Nicholas can be contacted at: david.nicholas@ucl.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Electronic books User studies Libraries Students With e‐books now arriving thick and fast on the academic market it is clearly...

... Publishing Limited 2008 Information retrieval Worldwide web Information literacy Information searches User studies End users who explore the worldwide web (hereafter the web) normally expect quick and easy access to their required information. However, web searching is not always...

... for various purposes. Table I reflects a complete view of their purpose for information seeking. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Information research Information retrieval User studies Legislature India Need is an abstract term. It refers to a lack of self‐sufficiency...

... This paper offers methods for evaluating user reaction to service development and highlights problems and solutions to the introduction of the People's Network in one library authority in Wales. Public libraries Wales User studies Two reports of the late 1990s from the Library and Information...

... to being worth 50 per cent of the p‐book market by 2008. Within ten years, the e‐book and p‐book markets were forecast to be about equal in size. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Internet Electronic publishing United Kingdom Electronic books User studies The growth...

... adapting to the new realities of an information‐rich corps of users. © Company 2005 Parliament Document management User studies Self‐service Electronic document delivery The eclipse of the information worker and the rise of the end user have many times been mooted, not least of all...

... are the focus of numerous conference papers, many articles in on‐ and off‐line newspapers, formal and informal comments on universities’ bulletin boards and the focus of a considerable number of public surveys. Internet User studies Electronic commerce Business development Greece © Emerald...

... education Information Community care User studies Touch‐screen technology has been used for a wide range of interactive or non‐interactive applications. An annual world‐wide increase of 25 per cent in the use of touch‐screens was predicted in 1996 (Cranston et al., 1996). Five groups...