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End‐users in academia: meeting the information needs of university researchers in an electronic age: Part 2 Innovative information‐accessing opportunities and the researcher: user acceptance of IT‐based information resources in academia

Eti Herman (Internet Studies Research Group, Department of Information Science, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB)

Aslib Proceedings

ISSN: 0001-253X

Article publication date: 1 December 2001

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Abstract

This paper is the second part of a two‐part paper, which examines the transition to the electronic information era in academia. Seeks to establish from the published literature to what extent university researchers have accepted, and adapted to, the changes wrought in information activity by seemingly endless technological developments. Within the wider context of the impact of the changing information environment on each of the three clearly discernible components of academic research (the creation of knowledge and standards, the preservation of information, and the communication of knowledge and information to others), disciplinary‐rooted differences in the conduct of research and their influence on information needs are identified, and the resulting inter‐ and intra‐individual variations in researchers’ information seeking behaviour are explored. Reviewing a large number of studies investigating the integration of electronic media into academic work, an attempt is made to paint the picture of academics’ progressively harnessing the new technologies to scholarly information gathering endeavours, with the expressed hope of affording some insight into the directions and basic trends characterising the information activity of university faculty in an increasingly electronic environment.

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Herman, E. (2001), "End‐users in academia: meeting the information needs of university researchers in an electronic age: Part 2 Innovative information‐accessing opportunities and the researcher: user acceptance of IT‐based information resources in academia", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 53 No. 10, pp. 431-457. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000007072

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