Year: 2011
Type: conference-paper
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: What factors could affect the information \nseeking behavior of people despite of their being \noccupied in the same domain? This study aspires to \nshed some light on this question by examining, \ndescribing and exploring three aspects of information \nseeking behaviour of astronomers in Greece. The \ndistinctive characteristic of this research is that an \nintradisciplinary approach has been adopted and the \nastronomers were grouped in various categories \naccording to their respective characteristics such as, \nacademic status, subfield-research area, and affiliated \ninstitution, all being regarded as factors that can affect \nbehaviour. The analysis of the results revealed that \nalthough some similarities exist, there are significant \nvariations in the behaviour of these different categories \nof our participants, e.g. among scholars with different \nacademic status or research area, and the sources used \nor their tendency to submit papers in eprint archives.
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2268031495