Online Searching Behavior of Social Science Researchers' in IR Interfaces of E-journal Database Systems: A Study on JMI, JNU, and DU

Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice

Kumar, Shailendra¹  Rai, Namrata¹ 

[1] Department of Library and Information Science University of Delhi;

关键词: e-journal database systems;    IR interface;    retrieval features;    user study;    online searching behavior;    browsing;   

DOI  :  10.1633/JISTaP.2013.1.4.4

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The aim of this study is to examine the user's online searching behavior in IR interfaces of e-journal database systems. The study is purely based on survey methods and tries to analyse the online searching behavior of respondents of social science disciplines who were doing research in three target central universities of Delhi (i.e. DU, JMI, and JNU). For measuring the responses of the respondents in IR interfaces of e-journal database systems, a total of 396 questionnaires were distributed among the students and out of all, 305 responses were used for the study. The findings of the study reveal that most of the students were not using all the facilities offered in IR interfaces of e-journal database systems for their retrieval process and also encourages menu based searches rather than command based searching.

【 授权许可】

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