Online Information-Seeking Behaviour
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This research aimed to explore the actual situation of information accessibility for university students with visual impairment at higher academic institutions of Lahore, Pakistan. This research adopted a qualitative research design using... more
يحاول هذا الفصل التعرف على نظرية البحث الفطري الغريزي عن المعلومات، والأساس النظري أو الوجهة العلمية التي تنتمي إليها، وهل هي مجرد نظرية أم نموذج نظري أساسي Paradigm؟ كما يحدد الفصل موقعها في البناء الفكري العلمي، ويستعرض خصائص الإنتاج... more
يتناول هذا الفصل مناقشة النتائج التي تم التوصل إليها في الفصول السابقة من الدراسة، وفقا للتساؤلات البحثية التي تصدت الدراسة للإجابة عليها، فضلا عن بعض النتائج الأخرى التي توصلت إليها الدراسة.
Masyarakat telah banyak didedahkan dengan konsep kepimpinan. Malah, mereka masih tercari-cari maklumat mengenai kaedah untuk menjadi seorang pemimpin yang lebih berkesan. Masyarakat mempercayai bahawa kepimpinan merupakan satu kaedah... more
The literature on information seeking behavior has been, and remains, a hot topic for research within various disciplines, but has been limited to review in this article to the field of library and information science, which is where... more
Artikkeli esittelee disnormatiivisen ja normetiivisen informaation käsitteet. Disnormatiivisella informaatiolla tarkoitetaan arvojen, normien ja lainsäädännön vastaista informaatiota. Normatiivinen informaatio puolestaan on yhteiskunnassa... more
Tutkimus käsittelee toiseuden kokemuksen vaikutusta tiedontarpeisiin ja tiedon jakamiseen Internetin keskustelupalstalla. Tavoitteena on ollut lisätä ymmärrystä siitä, kuinka sosiaalinen vetäytyminen, ts. pidättäytyminen sosiaalisista... more
Libraries are adding new electronic information resources and bringing services for the benefit of users. Developments in ICT have made drastic changes in the way the information collected, stored, and distributed by libraries and... more
This paper seeks to contribute to an understanding of the changing nature of support and information-seeking practices for women in the transition to first-time motherhood. In the context of increasing digitalisation, the significance of... more
Despite a heightened focus on information literacy, students and adults alike struggle to assess online information. In this article, the authors argue that the K–12 information literacy curriculum needs to focus on supporting stu- dents... more
This research aimed to explore the actual situation of information accessibility for university students with visual impairment at higher academic institutions of Lahore, Pakistan. This research adopted a qualitative research design using... more
This research studies why and how users search for Islamic and Quranic information on the Web. It is to understand the information needs and search behaviour of online users seeking for this particular type of information. Thirty one... more
Recently, the Ministry of Education and Culture has established a policy for implementing face-to-face schools. Regarding this policy, students’ parents become a key point in order to make decisions to allow children to attend... more
هدفت الدراسة إلى التعريف بنظرية البحث الغريزي عن المعلومات، والمفاهيم المرتبطة بها، فضلا عن استكشاف واقع تطبيقات النظرية على عينة مختارة من مواقع المكتبات بمختلف أنواعها وإبراز مناحي القوة ومواطن الضعف فيها. ولعل من أهم ما هدفت إليه... more
[Title:Information Seeking-Behavior in the Effort to Fulfill Information Needs in Semarang Kumandang Sastra Community] The purpose of this study is to find out how information tracing behavior in an effort to meet the information needs of... more
This study examines the information seeking behaviours of university students and explores students’ preferences between the university library and the Google search engine with their reasons. The research questionnaire was applied to 250... more
This study conducted a cross-sectional online survey (N = 865) to determine whether self-ratings of depression and anxiety, perceived peer support, and perceived health benefits of social media predicted mental health-related information... more
This research aimed to explore the actual situation of information accessibility for university students with visual impairment at higher academic institutions of Lahore, Pakistan. This research adopted a qualitative research design using... more
1. INTRODUCTION The review of relevant literature is nearly always a standard chapter of a thesis or dissertation. The review forms an important chapter in a thesis where its purpose is to provide the background to and justification for... more
This research carried out a systematic review of the evidence of reliability and validity of scales available in studies reporting surveys of individuals to measure anxiety associated with information related tasks such as library... more
When studying how ordinary Web users interact with Web search engines, researchers tend to either treat the users as a homogeneous group or group them according to search experience. Neither approach is sufficient, we argue,to capture the... more
Objective: Changes perceived as both positive (eg, posttraumatic growth [PTG]) and negative (eg, posttraumatic stress symptoms [PTSS]) have been associated with intensive Internet use among breast cancer survivors. In this multicenter... more
Online Health Communities have become an increasingly popular information resource. Participants use them to seek health information, to seek support and to source advice regarding health challenges. The resulting lack of dependency on... more
Medical students, the future Doctors of our country are an important part of the society. When they will enter into the professional world it would be very difficult to approach them and get time for conversation. If they can be... more
This research aimed to explore the actual situation of information accessibility for university students with visual impairment at higher academic institutions of Lahore, Pakistan. This research adopted a qualitative research design using... more
تناول الفصل الأول الإطار النظري وسمات الإنتاج الفكري الخاص بنظرية البحث الفطري الغريزي عن المعلومات، وخلص إلى أن النظرية قد تلقتها الأوساط العلمية بالقبول، وتم تناولها من جانب قطاع عريض من الموضوعات، خصوصا المرتبطة بعلوم الحاسب والهندسة... more
Abstract: As part of a larger study into the information behaviour of grade-three students the use of books and the Internet as information sources was investigated. During class time books and other printed sources were used more often... more
Affordances of Internet sites and Internet-based applications make personal information about romantic partners, friends, family members, and strangers easy to obtain. People use various techniques to find information about others,... more
The main objective of this study is to find out the using pattern of internet and e-resources by the Eastern University (EU) students and faculty members. A printed version of the questionnaire was distributed in the respective students... more
Belakangan ini Kemdikbud telah menetapkan kebijakan pelaksanaan sekolah tatap muka. Selain akademisi, orang tua menjadi pihak krusial dalam hal ini terutama berkaitan dengan pengambilan keputusan untuk mengizinkan anak mengikuti... more
Currently there are many groups of Indonesian faculty members on social media. This research aims to find out the information behavior of Indonesian faculty members on social media, especially on Facebook, Telegram, and WhatsApp. The... more
Women play a critical role in food security. They are the backbone of the world's agricultural labour force. Nearly half of the food grown all over the world is produced by women. In Zambia, women account for over sixty-five percent of... more
Undergraduates have to get-up to date, quickly and accurate information mixing with digital/online tools to fulfill their information gap. The aim of this research was to find which factors affect to undergraduate online/digital... more
Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS) is common in many professional contexts. This chapter discusses CIS from four different perspectives – education, healthcare, science research and patent research. We first... more
This research carried out a systematic review of the evidence of reliability and validity of scales available in studies reporting surveys of individuals to measure anxiety associated with information related tasks such as library... more
Abstract: Young adults (N = 357) were surveyed following the suicide of celebrity Robin Williams to better understand how involvement with the actor and emotional responses to his death influenced searches for information concerning... more