Digital journals, Big Deals and online searching behaviour: a pilot study

被引:33
作者
Nicholas, D [1 ]
Huntington, P [1 ]
Watkinson, A [1 ]
机构
[1] City Univ London, CIBER, Dept Informat Sci, London EC1V 0HB, England
来源
ASLIB PROCEEDINGS | 2003年 / 55卷 / 1-2期
关键词
digital communications; libraries; electronic publishing; online retrieval; journal publishing;
D O I
10.1108/00012530310462742
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Evaluates, through deep log analysis, the impact of "Big Deal" agreements on the online searching behaviour of users of the Emerald digital library Web site, which provides access to more than 150 journals in the fields of business and information science. The purpose of the evaluation was to map the online information seeking behaviour of the digital library user and to see whether those signed-up to a Big Deal arrangement behaved any differently from the others. In general they did. The real surprise proved to be the strong consumer traits of the library's users. Research reported here refers to the first stage of a three-stage research project.
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页码:84 / 109
页数:26
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