Preprint: Information-Seeking Behavior in the Digital Age: A Multi-Disciplinary Study of Academic Researchers
Article Title: Information-Seeking Behavior in the Digital Age: A Multi-disciplinary Study of Academic Researchers
Author: Xuemei Ge
Accepted: October 11, 2009
Anticipated Publication Date: September 2010
This article focuses on how electronic information resources influence the information-seeking process in the social sciences and humanities, examines the information-seeking behavior of scholars in these fields, and extends the David Ellis model of information-seeking behavior for social scientists, which includes six characteristics: starting, chaining, browsing, differentiating, monitoring, and extracting. The study was conducted at Tennessee State University. Thirty active social sciences and humanities faculty and doctoral students were interviewed about their use of electronic information resources for research purposes, their perception of electronic and print materials, their opinions concerning the Ellis model, and how the model might apply to them.
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