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Student Searching Behavior and the Web: Use of Academic Resources and Google

Year: 2005

Type: article

Abstract: This article reports results of two user studies of search engine use conducted to evaluate the United Kingdom’s national academic sector digital information services and projects. The results presented here focus on student searching behavior and show that commercial Internet search engines dominate students’ information-seeking strategy. Forty-five percent of students use Google as their first port of call when locating information, with the university library catalogue used by 10 percent of the sample. Results of students’ perceptions of ease of use, success, time taken to search, and reasons for stopping a search are also presented.

Source: Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Authors: Jillian R. Griffiths, Peter Brophy

Language: English

Topic: Library Science and Information Literacy

Subfield: Library and Information Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2172171860

FWCI: 56.89

Cites: 20

Cited by: 306

Related to: 10