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Please use this identifier to cite this item: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1749

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
Appears in Collections: Library Trends 53 (4) Spring 2005: The Commercialized Web: Challenges for Libraries and Democracy
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