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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1749
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| Title: |
Student Searching Behavior and the Web: Use of Academic Resources and Google |
| Authors: |
Griffiths, Jillian R.
Brophy, Peter |
| Keywords: |
Commercialization
Internet
Libraries and the World Wide Web
World Wide Web |
| Issue Date: |
2005 |
| Publisher: |
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
| Citation Information: |
In Library Trends 53(4) Spring 2005: 539-554. |
| Abstract / Summary: |
This article reports results of two user studies of search engine use conducted
to evaluate the United Kingdom’s national academic sector digital
information services and projects. The results presented here focus on
student searching behavior and show that commercial Internet search engines
dominate students’ information-seeking strategy. Forty-five percent
of students use Google as their first port of call when locating information,
with the university library catalogue used by 10 percent of the sample. Results
of students’ perceptions of ease of use, success, time taken to search,
and reasons for stopping a search are also presented. |
| URI: |
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1749 |
| ISSN: |
0024-2594 |
| Type of Resource: |
text |
| Genre of Resource: |
article |
| Publication Status: |
published or submitted for publication |
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Library Trends 53 (4) Spring 2005: The Commercialized Web: Challenges for Libraries and Democracy
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